When the operating system is installed on the computer, it is installed on the “single” Fusion drive and does not show that there are actually two physical drives inside it. My mac mini 2012 actually ships with a spare hard drive bay already, and what Apple do when you pay for the fusion drive is just insert a typical Samsung solid state drive (SSD = no moving parts) into this empty space, and then use some coding to make the computer think there is just one internal drive. What this means for the end-user is that your computer runs ultra quick with <20 second boot times and no lag in opening apps, but also gives you huge amounts of space to save all of your media.Ī fusion drive is just a fancy name that Apple gives to all its technology so that you think it’s some special new thing, like Retina display, but in reality the technology has been around for a while, but Apple have done what they do best, and made it marketable to the masses, and made the actual implementation of the software intuitive and easy to use.
The fusion drive was brought out in late 2012 and is an upgradable purchase (on the apple store only) which gives you the speed benefits of an expensive solid state drive with the low cost but large storage space of your typical hard disk drive.
This is a guide on how to make your own D.I.Y fusion drive, in particular for the Mac Mini 2012, but you can do it with most macs running the later OS’s like Mouton Lion and the freely available Mavericks 10.9 update. I would recommend reading all the source material that I use in this blog as a guide, and accept no responsibility for any date loss This procedure can be done by anyone but might involve lots of pausing of videos, lots of double checking for spelling mistakes in Terminal, and some moments where I though I had broken my new computer-I didn’t. I’ll put links to all the Youtube videos and articles that I used and encourage you to follow them step by step.
Disclaimer: I’m not a tech genius, just an Apple enthusiast, and want to try and give layman’s instructions on how to make a DIY fusion drive.
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