Fusion Drive kicks a$$ !

Absrnd · 04:57 AM

It's the MacMini, but you get the point

Icaras · Nov 9, 2012, 04:38 AM

Yup saw this vid earlier. Awesome speeds. I can see Apple standardizing Fusion drives in all desktop Macs eventually.

DeafRaiders · Nov 9, 2012, 04:54 AM

That video made my mind up Fusion Drive is the way forward!

R1PPER · Nov 9, 2012, 05:04 AM

I put an external SSD Thunderbolt on my Imac as a boot drive and im getting 200/400 speeds. Teflon smooth baby.

aziatiklover · Nov 9, 2012, 05:05 AM

Im hoping we can get that done with older early 2012 mac mini! I have the base model with a dual hard drive ssd for the main osx and 1tb on the other drive!

naiver12 · Nov 9, 2012, 05:27 AM

Sry, but the system is empty in this Demo. Its only writing on the SSD... You have to test it with a system which is bigger than the size of the SSD.

@aziatiklover
Yes, you can do this. I did it with my 2011 Imac ssd+hdd.

aziatiklover · Nov 9, 2012, 05:32 AM

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Originally Posted by naiver12

Sry, but the system is empty in this Demo. Its only writing on the SSD... You have to test it with a system which is bigger than the size of the SSD.

@aziatiklover
Yes, you can do this. I did it with my 2011 Imac ssd+hdd.

How do you enable that in osx ML? Will it work the same as Apple OEM ssd+hdd! I have a crucial 128gb ssd and a 1tb hdd forgot the brand tho.

Confuzzzed · Nov 9, 2012, 06:08 AM

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Originally Posted by naiver12

Sry, but the system is empty in this Demo. Its only writing on the SSD... You have to test it with a system which is bigger than the size of the SSD.

Yes, but it is also relatively untrained (i.e. not taking benefit of the software that manages what storage). So you will obviously lose some speed when thet two systems are been used in parallel but I suspect all OS related tasks will be lightning fast. What you can expect some speed sacrifice will be accessing data like photo or video files in thumbnail format.

I can live with that.

SuperRob · Nov 9, 2012, 11:35 AM

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Originally Posted by naiver12

Sry, but the system is empty in this Demo. Its only writing on the SSD... You have to test it with a system which is bigger than the size of the SSD.

It still shouldn't matter. The way the Fusion Drive works, you're always writing and reading from the SSD first. It only ever fails over to the HDD if a write goes over the 4GB set aside on the SSD for writes, or if the data being read from is on the HD.

Really, you'd need a write test over 4GB, and even then, you only see the speed change after the 4GB limit is hit.

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Icaras macrumors 68040 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: California, United States	Yup saw this vid earlier. Awesome speeds. I can see Apple standardizing Fusion drives in all desktop Macs eventually. __________________ iMac 27" (Late 2012) iPhone 5 iPad mini Apple TV (3rd Generation) Time Capsule (4th Generation) PC free (since 2008) Game Center: ICARAS
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DeafRaiders macrumors regular Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Caotbridge (outside Glasgow, UK)	That video made my mind up Fusion Drive is the way forward! __________________ iPod Nano 1st Gen \| iPad 16GB 1st Gen (wifi+3G) \| iPhone 5 16GB \| iMac Late 2012 (1st iMac)
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R1PPER macrumors regular Join Date: Oct 2008	I put an external SSD Thunderbolt on my Imac as a boot drive and im getting 200/400 speeds. Teflon smooth baby.
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naiver12 macrumors newbie Join Date: Oct 2012	Sry, but the system is empty in this Demo. Its only writing on the SSD... You have to test it with a system which is bigger than the size of the SSD. @aziatiklover Yes, you can do this. I did it with my 2011 Imac ssd+hdd.
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