Great, I would scoop this up from surplus![]()
Yeah uh...no you won't lmao. That fusion drive is most likely getting destroyed since it used to belong to another facility.
Great, I would scoop this up from surplus![]()
I actually did a DIY Fusion Drive back when I was trying to keep my old-ass Mac Mini in service. I opened it up, used a bracket and cable kit to cram a small SSD (all I could afford) alongside the HDD, ran a bunch of terminal commands I read about, and it worked brilliantly. I got quite a few years more life out of that little guy.The fusion drive was a clever idea on paper (I would've made it up) but in practice it just caused confusion, especially when the majority of the cheap 21.5 inch iMacs had spinning hard drives.
Still can't believe they thought it was a good idea to keep selling them even after the Apple Silicon transition.
I have a 2012 27" iMac sitting in my basement which has been in nearly continuous operation for the past decade; it's no longer my primary computer, but it's still chugging along just fine, and the kids use it for some gaming by way of Windows 10. I did of course upgrade the RAM to 40GB within days of buying it, and I finally got around to replacing the internal HDD with an SSD just a couple of years ago. (I intentionally did not configure it with Fusion, because I've never really trusted that concept.)
I'd say you've got yourself a pretty decent workstation, there. Good find!
You should get your kids some Steam Decks. They'd be a major upgrade from this old thing because that GTX in that iMac is no longer supported for modern titles.
Thank you, but we might not use it now since the National Mac team is offering to take it off our hands and give us new Macs in it's place.
Never a fan of Fusion drives anyway so not a big loss to me, I'd just open it up and put in an SSD.Yeah uh...no you won't lmao. That fusion drive is most likely getting destroyed since it used to belong to another facility.
Actually, if I'm being totally honest: the one kid who still uses it for gaming also has a PlayStation 4... I don't think he would choose to go down the Steam Deck path for an upgrade; more likely, he'll be pushing me to get him a PS5 soon enough.
My other two older "gamer" kids both have gaming PCs with RTX 3060 cards, which are quite satisfactory for most games. (My youngest is the real rebel... he only ever wants to use his iPad to play Minecraft. 😆)
Maybe you should ask them to send it back to you, sans drives, so you can turn it into a cheap DIY Studio Display. LOL!
Never a fan of Fusion drives anyway so not a big loss to me, I'd just open it up and put in an SSD.
Yeah that's not how it works in the US Federal Government you silly billy. The iMac's drive is gonna have to be destroyed since it was used in a different facility.
Perhaps you misunderstood my comment: "sans drives" is the same thing as saying "without drives." To be clear, you don't actually need any drives for what I was suggesting. (Ignoring the fact that my comment was entirely tongue-in-cheek to begin with, as we all know perfectly well that nobody ever gets anything back from the proverbial "home office" once it has been "reclaimed"... government or otherwise.)
Surely your data centre would not allow and unsupportable Mac (i.e. one without fixes for known security vulnerabilities) onto the network. Seems irresponsible of your boss to suggest it. But maybe things are more casual in your country.So, I work as a sysadmin for a US federal data center