256GB? You can find a 2TB HDD for $80 easily these days, maybe even less.
I found a couple under my mattress, no idea how they even got there...
256GB? You can find a 2TB HDD for $80 easily these days, maybe even less.
256GB? You can find a 2TB HDD for $80 easily these days, maybe even less.
Probably the same way V8 Fusion and a thousand restaurants feel about it.
I think we'll see Fusion Drive technology in MacBook Pros next year with the optical drives removed. A little surprised that didn't happen in the spring MBP w/Retina, but probably next year's upgrade. It's a sweet design.
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So how do these Fusion drives compare to Momentus XT drives which have been around for years? Fundamentally they sound similar but I could be wrong.
Probably the same way V8 Fusion and a thousand restaurants feel about it.
and most likely that's exactly what it is. It has been available on PCs for a while.
He meant 256Gb SSD.
He meant 256GB SSD, and what I meant is that 256GB SSDs cost way more money per GB than HDDs. I like the compromise that Fusion as well as the caching solutions bring. Using an SSD alone is too expensive and doesn't provide enough storage.
So how do these Fusion drives compare to Momentus XT drives which have been around for years? Fundamentally they sound similar but I could be wrong.
...So could you put an SSD and an HDD in a Mac Pro then set them up as a Fusion drive? Or is this controlled by some kind of hard drive logic not in Mac OS that's built into some SSD/HDD combo drive? If so, could I buy one of these Fusion drives and stick one in my Mac Pro and have the file management be done by the drive itself, leaving the CPU and OS out of it?
I wish they had more details on this stuff, but of course people care more about the specs of their phones than the specs of their iMacs
As other have said this is basically a RAID 0 with some smart save features. You loose all the reliability of an SSD for speed gains that aren't really going to help your productivity in any meaningful way, unless your having to reboot your OS or Photoshop every 10 minutes...
As other have said this is basically a RAID 0 with some smart save features. You loose all the reliability of an SSD for speed gains that aren't really going to help your productivity in any meaningful way, unless your having to reboot your OS or Photoshop every 10 minutes...
RAID 0 is interleaving data across multiple drive to increase read/write speeds. That's not what happens here. Data can move from HDD to SSD or vice versa. It's not being striped and thusfar no verbiage about data redundancy has been mentioned by Apple.
Yeah, this is pretty much like having a separate SSD and HDD, where you manually move apps/files/etc., to the SSD you think need faster access and use your HDD for storing less accessed apps and files.
It's just one logical volume and the location of the files is determined by a system process that monitors how often a files it used, and maybe the nature of the use/file type (not absolutely sure on the logic since details are still pretty sketchy).
Exactly. I don't know why people are making it more complex that it is. At foundation of all storage tiering is moving data to where it operates best. Of course the Devil is details
most of us do not need that bigger size as main drive, you always need to backup the data into some external drive.
...and if your data lives only on your external "backup" drive, you'll need to back up the external drive, too.
And while we're on this topic, like others, I also wonder what happens if one of the drives (most likely the HD, I suppose) were to fail and how backups and restores will work.
The article specifically draws a distinction between Fusion and Intel's solution.
He meant 256GB SSD, and what I meant is that 256GB SSDs cost way more money per GB than HDDs. I like the compromise that Fusion as well as the caching solutions bring. Using an SSD alone is too expensive and doesn't provide enough storage.
There is barely any difference between wats already out in the market, dont let some apple spin fool you .
http://www.ocztechnology.com/revohybrid-faq
this even does it on block level .
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512GB costs 350 thats what ? 15% of the imac cost? Thats the difference between a 2.7GHZ i5 and 2.9GHZ i5 and thiswill make the imac a lot faster then that cpu bump.
This is actually not needed if apple went with 256GB as standard
Yeah....because 256gb is SUCH a huge amount of storage
Maybe the better part of a Decade 256gb was enough. But not anymore.
There isn't all that much different about this drive compared to a typical hybrid drive, some differences.
Very cool.