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Hello Everyone,
I'm very seriously considering going from Windows to Mac and would start with a desktop replacement for my photo editing and audio recording needs. The specs on the i7 2012 model look promising enough to get everything done and I prefer this solution to the new iMac even though we haven't seen it yet. Not a big fan of the all-in-one design to begin with and the screens likely don't work for me still.
What I'd like to have though is two drives inside the Mac Mini: one SSD (256GB or so) and a completely separate magnetic drive with the largest capacity that the Mac Mini will handle in that configuration. 7200rpm would be ideal. Let's not get into why I want it like that and how that makes me an old person who refuses the mighty Apple managing everything for me.
So with that in mind I figured a good starting point would be to just order the fusion option - which as we all know comes with a SSD drive and a 1TB magnetic drive "fused" together by software. So even though neither of the drives would be the ones that I really want it would be a good starting point to check things out without taking a screwdriver to it and voiding the warranty - and the potential option to take it back.
Question with that though is how I could permanently (!) remove the "fusion" option. I know there are commands to do that but I wonder if I'll have to do this any time there is an update because the machine is labeled as "fusion" type setup. I read that those machines come with a different version of the DiskUtility. Is that something I could replace? What would happen if I bought my own OSX installation CD and did a fresh install - would it ask me if I wanted the fusion drive or would it just assume that because of how it was shipped originally? And what happens once I start swapping the original drives for something bigger and faster?
I'm very seriously considering going from Windows to Mac and would start with a desktop replacement for my photo editing and audio recording needs. The specs on the i7 2012 model look promising enough to get everything done and I prefer this solution to the new iMac even though we haven't seen it yet. Not a big fan of the all-in-one design to begin with and the screens likely don't work for me still.
What I'd like to have though is two drives inside the Mac Mini: one SSD (256GB or so) and a completely separate magnetic drive with the largest capacity that the Mac Mini will handle in that configuration. 7200rpm would be ideal. Let's not get into why I want it like that and how that makes me an old person who refuses the mighty Apple managing everything for me.
So with that in mind I figured a good starting point would be to just order the fusion option - which as we all know comes with a SSD drive and a 1TB magnetic drive "fused" together by software. So even though neither of the drives would be the ones that I really want it would be a good starting point to check things out without taking a screwdriver to it and voiding the warranty - and the potential option to take it back.
Question with that though is how I could permanently (!) remove the "fusion" option. I know there are commands to do that but I wonder if I'll have to do this any time there is an update because the machine is labeled as "fusion" type setup. I read that those machines come with a different version of the DiskUtility. Is that something I could replace? What would happen if I bought my own OSX installation CD and did a fresh install - would it ask me if I wanted the fusion drive or would it just assume that because of how it was shipped originally? And what happens once I start swapping the original drives for something bigger and faster?
