

Hybrid only achieves a small part (read and write caching) of what Fusion Drive provides, as the SSD part is too small. Greenhouse gas emission projections for the Mac Mini Server were several times those of the regular Mac Mini, in part because of the extra hard disk, but also due to increased expected lifetime energy use the percentage of CO2 from usage rose from.

As someone said above, the RAM capacity has little relevency with the performance of Fusion Drive.ģ. However, from the Mid-2011 models onwards, all models of Mac Mini had the optical drive removed. Yes yes, I know youve heard it a million times before but we love. You will need to enable the TRIM support for your SSD (it's pretty important) manually (try TRIM Enabler: ), because OS X only provide native TRIM support for Apple stock SSDs, but not for any 3rd party ones.Ģ. Enlarge / The 2014 Mac Mini looks the same on the outside, but on the inside it regresses in some unfortunate ways. The Plex Media Server and the Mac mini DIY Fusion Drive. 25th, 2013 (2011 MBP report/Blog on OS X 10.8.3 DU/Fusion Setup) Updated: Mar. Reboot and restore from your backup, you are ready to go!ġ. Reports on DIY Fusion Drives in Mac Pros, iMacs, Mac Mini, MacBook Pros. Fix it as prompted (note that your data on BOTH drives will be erased, so make a backup before doing this), and you will get a fusion drive, automatically, without any further configuration.ģ.

With the two drives properly installed, boot your mac with a recovery disk (10.8.3 and later) or with the Internet recovery (which makes sure that you have the latest recovery image), the disk utility will prompt that your drives are not working correctly and needs to be fixed. Fusion Drive works on OS level, or more precisely, it lays between the physical storage and the file system, therefore there are few requirements for hardware, only you need an SSD + an HDD to make it work.Ģ.
