Fusion Drive reported size

msans · Nov 6, 2012, 10:31 PM

I received my new Mac mini with fusion drive yesterday. When I check the size under "get info" on the drive icon I get:

Capacity: 34.62 GB
Available: 18.33 GB

Called Apple and tech support said it's supposed to do that. Can someone else check to see what you get? Doesn't seem right to me. Thanks.

StevenT42 · Nov 6, 2012, 10:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by msans

I received my new Mac mini with fusion drive yesterday. When I check the size under "get info" on the drive icon I get:

Capacity: 34.62 GB
Available: 18.33 GB

Called Apple and tech support said it's supposed to do that. Can someone else check to see what you get? Doesn't seem right to me. Thanks.

Mine from Get Info

Capacity 1.12 TB
Available 916.1GB
Used 199.76 GB

From Disk Utility

Capacity : 1.12 TB (1,120,333,979,648 Bytes)

MatthewAMEL · Nov 7, 2012, 12:09 AM

I have a DIY Fusion Drive in my MBP.

It reports:

Capacity: 725GB
Available: 473GB
Used: 251GB

pcmkservice · Nov 7, 2012, 03:36 PM

Hallo everybody. I com from Germany and read about the problem with the Fusion Drive. My new Mac Mini today arrived and told the same about the free space. I have repair it by the HDD repair programm. New Start under recovery and then goes to teh repair programm. After this all is fine. But is is unbelivible what Apple gives for 1280€... I hope i could help, soor for my bad English. Best Regards from Germany to all of you.

msans · Nov 8, 2012, 05:52 PM

Thanks all. Disk Utility -> Repair doesn't report any errors despite the missing space. There is an open ticket with apple and I am awaiting a response.

I see someone else had the same issue here:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1485617

GaiusBaltar · Nov 8, 2012, 07:25 PM

Have you tried a clean install?

boot from recovery partition, wipe disk with disk utility, reinstall mountain lion

pcmkservice · Nov 8, 2012, 08:37 PM

Hy Guys, did you think that Apple is knowing about the problem with the Fusion Drive? Or did you think it is a`Factory error? Here in Germany comes every Day bad news with the reported size. My Mini works now very fine after i had repair over the recovery hdd repair tools. I'm curious when apple takes on the position error.

StevenT42 · Nov 8, 2012, 08:40 PM

Definitely report this to Apple.

timberg · Nov 9, 2012, 10:36 PM

Same thing for me today, almost exact same specs shown. 90 mins on phone with Apple, attempted to repair, rebuild, repartition. Pronounced it DOA so will exchange out.

stellan0r · Nov 20, 2012, 11:16 AM

Hey, just received my Mini, and I've got the same problem! It says I have onle 34.62 GB Capacity on my 1.12 TB drive.. Did you get any other solution than getting a replacement?

Quote:

Originally Posted by msans

I received my new Mac mini with fusion drive yesterday. When I check the size under "get info" on the drive icon I get:

Capacity: 34.62 GB
Available: 18.33 GB

Called Apple and tech support said it's supposed to do that. Can someone else check to see what you get? Doesn't seem right to me. Thanks.

mchoffa · Nov 20, 2012, 11:23 AM

this doesn't sound good, as I'm going to order an iMac with Fusion

msans · Nov 20, 2012, 11:55 AM

A complete reformat and then an OS X reinstall from the Internet recovery boot screen solved it. No problems after that.

stellan0r · Nov 20, 2012, 12:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mchoffa

this doesn't sound good, as I'm going to order an iMac with Fusion

actually, after calling the apple support, deleting the macintosh hd partition in recovery mode (entered with pressing alt+cmd+r while restarting) did create the correct partition size! I'm now installing the OS again.

dasx · Nov 20, 2012, 01:01 PM

Don't they have QC controls after software installation? Unbelievable…

G4DP · Nov 20, 2012, 01:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by msans

A complete reformat and then an OS X reinstall from the Internet recovery boot screen solved it. No problems after that.

That's not the point though is it.

You shouldn't have to re-install an OS before you have even used the computer. As for quality control, that went out of the window a long time ago.

stellan0r · Nov 20, 2012, 01:24 PM

same thoughts here..

Ademordna · Nov 20, 2012, 01:25 PM

Oh god, something else I'll be able to worry about.

The-Pro · Nov 20, 2012, 01:58 PM

Do you also only have 18.33GB of storage?. As in can you put more than 18.44GB of files onto the drive? Has it completely lost all the rest of the space or is it just a false report.

stellan0r · Nov 20, 2012, 11:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ademordna

Oh god, something else I'll be able to worry about.

seems to be a very rare problem

But I got them all: Faulty 16 GB Corsair Vengeance RAM (Kernel Panic), incorrect Fusion Drive setup and yesterday a hickup while trying to wake up my screens from sleep while I was copying 2 TB of files from an external drive to another. f.lux and iStat Menues were running in the background and the screens would not show any picture except a black screen (backlight on) with the mousecursor for the moment when I was pressing a button. Screens went out after that again. Needed to reboot with the power button... Maybe f.lux caused that problem, after deactivating it is working now. Will test that in 9 hours

Nov 6, 2012, 10:31 PM	#1
msans macrumors newbie Join Date: Oct 2012	Fusion Drive reported size I received my new Mac mini with fusion drive yesterday. When I check the size under "get info" on the drive icon I get: Capacity: 34.62 GB Available: 18.33 GB Called Apple and tech support said it's supposed to do that. Can someone else check to see what you get? Doesn't seem right to me. Thanks.
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Nov 7, 2012, 03:36 PM	#4
pcmkservice macrumors newbie Join Date: Nov 2012	Today i had the same problem Hallo everybody. I com from Germany and read about the problem with the Fusion Drive. My new Mac Mini today arrived and told the same about the free space. I have repair it by the HDD repair programm. New Start under recovery and then goes to teh repair programm. After this all is fine. But is is unbelivible what Apple gives for 1280€... I hope i could help, soor for my bad English. Best Regards from Germany to all of you.
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Nov 8, 2012, 08:37 PM	#7
pcmkservice macrumors newbie Join Date: Nov 2012	Thinking ? Hy Guys, did you think that Apple is knowing about the problem with the Fusion Drive? Or did you think it is a`Factory error? Here in Germany comes every Day bad news with the reported size. My Mini works now very fine after i had repair over the recovery hdd repair tools. I'm curious when apple takes on the position error.
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Nov 8, 2012, 08:40 PM	#8
StevenT42 macrumors regular Join Date: Jun 2010	Definitely report this to Apple. __________________ 2012 Mac mini, 2.6GHz i7, 16GB RAM, 1TB Fusion Drive 2011 13" MacBook Air, 1.7GHz i5, 4GB RAM, 256 GB Samsung SSD iPad 3 64GB WiFi+LTE iPhone 4S 64GB iPod Classic
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Nov 20, 2012, 01:01 PM	#14
dasx macrumors 6502a Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Barcelona	Don't they have QC controls after software installation? Unbelievable… __________________ 2012 Mac Mini
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Nov 7, 2012, 12:09 AM	#3
MatthewAMEL macrumors 6502 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Orlando, FL	I have a DIY Fusion Drive in my MBP. It reports: Capacity: 725GB Available: 473GB Used: 251GB
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Nov 8, 2012, 05:52 PM	#5
msans Thread Starter macrumors newbie Join Date: Oct 2012	Thanks all. Disk Utility -> Repair doesn't report any errors despite the missing space. There is an open ticket with apple and I am awaiting a response. I see someone else had the same issue here: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1485617
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Nov 8, 2012, 07:25 PM	#6
GaiusBaltar macrumors newbie Join Date: Oct 2010	Have you tried a clean install? boot from recovery partition, wipe disk with disk utility, reinstall mountain lion
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Nov 9, 2012, 10:36 PM	#9
timberg macrumors newbie Join Date: Oct 2012	Same thing for me today, almost exact same specs shown. 90 mins on phone with Apple, attempted to repair, rebuild, repartition. Pronounced it DOA so will exchange out.
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Nov 20, 2012, 11:23 AM	#11
mchoffa macrumors 6502 Join Date: Jul 2008	this doesn't sound good, as I'm going to order an iMac with Fusion
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Nov 20, 2012, 11:55 AM	#12
msans Thread Starter macrumors newbie Join Date: Oct 2012	A complete reformat and then an OS X reinstall from the Internet recovery boot screen solved it. No problems after that.
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Nov 20, 2012, 01:24 PM	#16
stellan0r macrumors member Join Date: Oct 2012	same thoughts here..
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Nov 20, 2012, 01:25 PM	#17
Ademordna macrumors regular Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: UK	Oh god, something else I'll be able to worry about.
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Nov 20, 2012, 01:58 PM	#18
The-Pro macrumors 65816 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Germany	Do you also only have 18.33GB of storage?. As in can you put more than 18.44GB of files onto the drive? Has it completely lost all the rest of the space or is it just a false report. __________________ 2010 15" i7 AG MBP, 2009 17" AG MBP, 2009 8C 2.26 MP, 2010 quad MP,2010+07 MM, 17" 2007 MBP, 20" iMac G5,17" PB G4,4x30"CD,9 screens, G3's,G4's, 17"iMac g4,iMac G3 turquoise,macintoshes dating to 1990
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