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shankara7

macrumors member
Original poster
Oct 18, 2011
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Have a late 2011 iMac with 256 SSD + 2 TB HD, any way with use of software to turn it into a Fusion Drive?
 

Ralphalph

macrumors member
Mar 7, 2009
72
1
Late 2008 MBP

Anyone know of a reason why I couldn't do this to my late 2008 Macbook Pro? It's currently modded with a 500GB HDD in the optical drive bay, along with a 128GB SSD. Having these as one volume that worked automatically would be pretty handy.
 

jon8214

macrumors regular
Aug 25, 2012
203
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Belfast, NI
I have done this with a 128gb ssd and a 1tb hdd in my 2011 mbp, have noticed it is a bit quicker but will prob take a while for the os to work out the apps etc i use most often but it does seem to work perfectly well.
 

nicroma

macrumors 6502a
Jun 20, 2009
515
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Midwest, USA
My only concern that is now keeping me from doing this, is if Apple will break the configuration with any OS updates on non-official Fusion Mac models.
 

vthree

macrumors member
Sep 23, 2009
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28
I have done this with a 128gb ssd and a 1tb hdd in my 2011 mbp, have noticed it is a bit quicker but will prob take a while for the os to work out the apps etc i use most often but it does seem to work perfectly well.

hmm which method did you follow? i have the same setup as you.
 

Fried Chicken

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Jun 11, 2011
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So now how does this work with windows under boot camp?

From apple's support document it seems like only the HDD can be partitioned, but what if I wanted a windows partition entirely on the SSD?

Could I partition a 256 GB SSD to be say 128GB Mac/Fusion and 128GB windows and then run fusion drive on windows?
 
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