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Unfuse Fusion Drive on Mac Mini?
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<blockquote data-quote="7enderbender" data-source="post: 1473192" data-attributes="member: 279491"><p>Hello Everyone,</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="7enderbender, post: 1473192, member: 279491"] 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? [/QUOTE]
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