Fusion Drive Performance

[mathman]

I've read that the 1TB Fusion Drive has a faster HDD than the 3TB Fusion Drive. Will I notice the difference here? The idea of extra storage is great because I use a lot of virtual machines, and it'd be nice not to have a bunch of extra storage. But I don't want to see performance losses also. What do you think?

MM

 

[Nightarchaon]

I've read that the 1TB Fusion Drive has a faster HDD than the 3TB Fusion Drive. Will I notice the difference here? The idea of extra storage is great because I use a lot of virtual machines, and it'd be nice not to have a bunch of extra storage. But I don't want to see performance losses also. What do you think?

MM

the whole point of a fusion drive is that it shouldn't matter how fast the attached disk is, the data you use most, and the OS, should always be on the SSD portion and so be SSD speeds.

I use a lot of VMs, myself, i bought an external Thunderbolt caddie, and stuck two 256mb SSDs in it, and i run them from there so as not to clutter up the main Disk

 

[Chippy99]

the whole point of a fusion drive is that it shouldn't matter how fast the attached disk is, the data you use most, and the OS, should always be on the SSD portion and so be SSD speeds.

I use a lot of VMs, myself, i bought an external Thunderbolt caddie, and stuck two 256mb SSDs in it, and i run them from there so as not to clutter up the main Disk

What about the data that isn't used the most???

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

What about the data that isn't used the most???

It is slow of course. If you need high speed for everything, you get an SSD. A Fusion drive is sufficient for most things, but not a perfect solution.

 

[Chippy99]

It is slow of course. If you need high speed for everything, you get an SSD. A Fusion drive is sufficient for most things, but not a perfect solution.

I know that of course. My post was really directed at Nightarchaon ;-)