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Which OS you guys recommend???
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1862232" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>It is not that a file gets written across the drives. What is risky is that the drives are "fused" into one logical drive, so if you have hardware issues with either, you lose both. That is the same as when you have a single drive (SSD or HDD) and it has hardware issues, but the risk of that happening is roughly doubled by having two bits of hardware that might fail. The way the fusion is supposed to work is that the SSD is used for volatile files, including the boot files, and then the volatile files are transferred to the HDD when the system is idle and the file not in use. So you could get almost the performance of an SSD, but at the cost of an HDD. Like all compromises, it has some weaknesses.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1862232, member: 396914"] It is not that a file gets written across the drives. What is risky is that the drives are "fused" into one logical drive, so if you have hardware issues with either, you lose both. That is the same as when you have a single drive (SSD or HDD) and it has hardware issues, but the risk of that happening is roughly doubled by having two bits of hardware that might fail. The way the fusion is supposed to work is that the SSD is used for volatile files, including the boot files, and then the volatile files are transferred to the HDD when the system is idle and the file not in use. So you could get almost the performance of an SSD, but at the cost of an HDD. Like all compromises, it has some weaknesses. [/QUOTE]
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