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Booting from a superduper clone of a fusion drive
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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1929917" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>As far as I can tell from my experience, the existing Fusion drive remains intact and is untouched. The boot process seems to run entirely off of the SSD without relying on the Fusion drive at all. Perhaps others can confirm this.</p><p></p><p>I haven't looked for data recently on the longevity of Fusion drives. Some users have apparently had issues with these drives but I haven't. My 2015 iMac was my primary machine until about a month ago and it's still going strong. I switched because I had the opportunity to pick up an M1 Mac Mini cheap from a buddy. </p><p></p><p>Like all drives, the Fusion drive will eventually fail but booting/running from the external SSD should prolong that life since it doesn't need to use the Fusion drive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1929917, member: 131855"] As far as I can tell from my experience, the existing Fusion drive remains intact and is untouched. The boot process seems to run entirely off of the SSD without relying on the Fusion drive at all. Perhaps others can confirm this. I haven't looked for data recently on the longevity of Fusion drives. Some users have apparently had issues with these drives but I haven't. My 2015 iMac was my primary machine until about a month ago and it's still going strong. I switched because I had the opportunity to pick up an M1 Mac Mini cheap from a buddy. Like all drives, the Fusion drive will eventually fail but booting/running from the external SSD should prolong that life since it doesn't need to use the Fusion drive. [/QUOTE]
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