I've been reading some posts regarding disabling Fusion and creating separate SSD and HDD volumes.
I literally just unpacked my new iMac about an hour ago and want to do this before anything goes onto it.
My goal is to have the 128GB SSD be ONLY for booting and applications (which I will, of course, make a BootClone of once it is set up)....and have the rest of the space in the Fusion HDD be for non-boot, non-app files (pix, mp3's, etc.).
Having said that, I'm only following about half of the discussion in some threads and was hoping that someone could give me a step-by-step on how to separate completely my Fusion into a distinct SSD boot drive and HDD drive (and not have the OS transfer things to-and-fro unless I tell it to). While I'm not well-versed in Terminal commands, if somebody shows me what to do/type, I'm more than willing to dig in and get my hands dirty....there are just a lot of things that seem to be common knowledge to some of you on the forum that gets glossed over (and I don't want to miss any steps that are assumed that I already know...which I might not).
From some of the threads I've read, some of you are doing exactly what I want to do in just a matter of minutes...I just want to make sure I have all of the steps so nothing gets screwed up.
Any help would be great.
Thank you all for your time.
Best regards,
Justin
I literally just unpacked my new iMac about an hour ago and want to do this before anything goes onto it.
My goal is to have the 128GB SSD be ONLY for booting and applications (which I will, of course, make a BootClone of once it is set up)....and have the rest of the space in the Fusion HDD be for non-boot, non-app files (pix, mp3's, etc.).
Having said that, I'm only following about half of the discussion in some threads and was hoping that someone could give me a step-by-step on how to separate completely my Fusion into a distinct SSD boot drive and HDD drive (and not have the OS transfer things to-and-fro unless I tell it to). While I'm not well-versed in Terminal commands, if somebody shows me what to do/type, I'm more than willing to dig in and get my hands dirty....there are just a lot of things that seem to be common knowledge to some of you on the forum that gets glossed over (and I don't want to miss any steps that are assumed that I already know...which I might not).
From some of the threads I've read, some of you are doing exactly what I want to do in just a matter of minutes...I just want to make sure I have all of the steps so nothing gets screwed up.
Any help would be great.
Thank you all for your time.
Best regards,
Justin