An honest question - can anyone with one of these systems describe what it looks like to the user?
Is the dual-partition nature of the fused drive visible, or is there a logical volume manager layer so that the user only sees the 1.128 TB volume?
Windows NT has had a logical volume manager since forever that shows the users a logical view of storage that's quite different from the actual physical view.
For example, on my home PC I have a 12 TB volume for virtual machine images. I have a second 12 TB volume where I mirror the virtual machine images.
When I look at the filesystems from the user view, I see two 12 TB disks. (attached image) There's nothing visible at the user level to distinguish these disks from a real 12 TB drive.
When I look at the disks from the administrator level DISKMGMT utility, however, I see that each 12 TB volume is really a RAID-0 stripe set of four 3TB disks. (attached thumbnail - but I only show 4 of the 8 drives)
Does the Apple OSX user see a single 1.128 TB volume unless they open root-level tools?
Is the dual-partition nature of the fused drive visible, or is there a logical volume manager layer so that the user only sees the 1.128 TB volume?
Windows NT has had a logical volume manager since forever that shows the users a logical view of storage that's quite different from the actual physical view.
For example, on my home PC I have a 12 TB volume for virtual machine images. I have a second 12 TB volume where I mirror the virtual machine images.
When I look at the filesystems from the user view, I see two 12 TB disks. (attached image) There's nothing visible at the user level to distinguish these disks from a real 12 TB drive.
When I look at the disks from the administrator level DISKMGMT utility, however, I see that each 12 TB volume is really a RAID-0 stripe set of four 3TB disks. (attached thumbnail - but I only show 4 of the 8 drives)
Does the Apple OSX user see a single 1.128 TB volume unless they open root-level tools?