fusion

Hello everyone, Can someone give me a hint as to what is going wrong with setting up a fusion drive here? I've recently acquired a 2017 iMac for free (woohoo) and I upgraded the storage to a 2TB Apple blade SSD and a IronWolf Pro 20TB hard drive to use as a server / backup computer. The...

Just posting. I had an 2017 - 18,2 iMac 21 Inch. It was crazy slow. I had about 600 GB stored and the fusion drive (32 GB + 1 TB platter). Just a few things I learned recently and figured to share. - Apple stops its support of the machine. Latest OS is Ventura, I would not invest much in...

I want to upgrade my current MBP (2018 - 16GB). I will use the MBP for general office stuff and internet. Adobe: Photoshop / Illustrator and just started with Premiere and After Effects. But I'm running also VMware Fusion (still have to decide if I wil go to Parallels, but that is another topic...

Hello Apple & Mac friends. In a Late 2015 5K iMac's 2TB Fusion drive, what's the capacity of the SSD part? Is it 128GB or smaller (or bigger)? Thank you in advance. Have a blessed upcoming weekend.

I used to rely on Fusion for testing old versions of macOS. The latest free version, version 12, has been nothing but trouble for me. For various reasons, I have not been able to convert or use any old VMs created using previous versions of Fusion. I've experienced endless reboot loops, kernel...

Hi. The SSD still fused with the 2TB Fusion Drive in the Late 2015 5K iMac seems to have failed and can no longer be detected by Disk Utility (w/ View All Devices) and Terminal (Diskutil List). What are the proper steps to take to replace the Apple Blade SSD part of this Fusion Drive? I...

Hello MacRumors friends. What happens if you remove the hardisk of a Fusion drive and made it into an external drive? Would your User folders be there (Documents, Desktop, Pictures, etc.) and will it be readable? I plan to remove both the Apple SSD and the hardisk of the 2TB fusion drive in a...

Mac expert sleuths needed. I have a 2017 27" iMac with 24g RAM and 2tb fusion drive. The latest OS is installed, which is 11.5. About once or twice a year for three to four days, this machine slows down to the point it becomes unusable. Activity Monitor constantly shows high kernel_task...

Recently I tried a Samsung X5 external Nvme M.2 SSD, connected via Thunderbolt 3 to an end-2017 Imac, pumped up on steroids with 64 Gb Ram (OWC 2666 Mhz DDR4 SODIMM PC4-21400). Yes the 2666 Mhz are working even it that model is using 2400 Mhz originally (the advantage, in case you buy a new Imac...

Hi Team, I need some help as I’m running out of space. I had my HD replaced with a 2TB SSD. All seemed to be well. But now I’m not able to free up space. I have deleted hundreds of GB of files, yes I emptied trash, but the space is not becoming available. On investigation, it appears that I...

After upgrading to Catalina 10.15.3, the Mac wouldn't boot. It would get stuck on com.apple.PerfPowerServices. So, since I have a (month-old) backup, I decided to try and restore it - but it wouldn't restore. So, I booted into recovery mode, and was going to reformat the hard drive, and then...

Hi guys, I’ve looked around the forum and found a couple of solutions that might work but don’t know which one exactly applies to my particular situation, as I am a noob when it comes to terminal and commands. So i would be very greatful if u could assist me with this problem. Like many other...

My late-2015 27" iMac has been feeling slow lately when there's a lot of disk access going on (like when running VMWare). It's pretty clear the bottleneck is the existing 2.2TB fusion drive. I was thinking of replacing the stock drive components with a 2TB NVMe, but then was wondering if some...

Hi, So what I've been wanting to ask for a number of weeks and months is this; when in System Preferences and the Desktop & Screensaver portion of same - Is this also so painfully slow that browsing and adding wallpapers is a minute long process at times? For instance I have a series of...

hi all I just bought a 2017 iMac with 1tb fusion and I’m happy with its performance for my needs But I’m getting the chance to buy a Samsung T5 500GB ssd for very cheap Would I be better off 1. Booting the os and everything on the external ssd 2. Leaving the boot drive and applications on...

Hi, I have a problem installing Windows 10 with BOOTCAMP, first the process was good, lowers the compatibility software, creates the partitions well and restarts to install windows. But when it arrives at the installation it does not detect my hard disk, it goes from accepting the terms of the...

Hi all , So I have an iMac 2017 with Fusion. Since my first iMac that could have a fusion drive first thing I did when I mode the Mac was to destroy the core storage and split the SSD from the HDD. Using a external Thunderbolt SSD everything was always speedy and had some slow storage in my Mac...

Hi Guys, When I bought my iMac last year, I wanted to run Linux, Windows and MacOS on my Mac. Some things worked, some things didn't work. I recently gave up. But now I just want to restore my Fusion Drive as if it came out of the factory. This is my diskutil list when in MacOS and logged in...

My 2011 Macbook Pro running El Capitan was running fine until recently when it suddenly decided to stop booting after getting a new charger which I assume was sketchy (refurbished apple from ebay). I believe that my fusion drive has split back into the original hdd and ssd and now I can't boot...

To speed up my photo editing on Lightroom, I was advised to change my fusion drive to SSD as opposed to upgrading my RAM. Is this the best option? And if so, can somebody recommend a suitable SSD? I've got an iMac 27 inch (late 2013) 3.5 GHz Intel Core i7 Memory 8GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Storage -...