Custom Fusion Drive

[mawyatt]

Can a custom Fusion Drive be created externally on Thunderbolt or USB 3.0 interfaces? I would like to create custom Fusion Drive that has more than 4GB of the SSD available to directly write to. The 4GB is what the Apple Fusion Drive creates for the SSD direct writes. Something like 32 or 64GB would work better for my needs.

I know LaCie has a new Thunderbolt II drive that can hold a custom SSD as well as the standard hard drives. Don't know if this can be configured as a custom Fusion Drive though. Another possibility would be to use a SSD (Samsung) and standard hard drive in a Thunderbolt enclosure and configure as a Fusion Drive.

Thanks in advance,

Mike

 

[mawyatt]

Another question. Has anyone made a Fusion drive from the LaCie Thunderbolt 2 Big enclosures by replacing one of the hard drives with a Samsung SSD?

LaCie also has a new Thunderbolt enclosure that supports a special SSD that looks like it's made for using as a Fusion drive. I haven't seen any reviews though.

Thanks,

Mike