Of course, this hybrid drive technology isn't new - in a lot of ways, Apple's new "fusion drive" sounds a lot like this OCZ hybrid drive (and other similar drives), which also has a 1TB HDD as well as 128GB of flash storage. mac mini specs - 2.6GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 1TB Fusion Drive Intel HD Graphics. This Mac 911 article is in response to a question. For anyone frustrated with the speed of their standard hard drive, this will hopefully provide a speedy but spacious alternative. In this video, i've got an unboxing of the late 2012 mac mini. Reserve your existing internal Fusion Drive HDD of 1TB to 3TB for less-intensively used files, like your Photos Library and Music Library. The new M.2 holder fit perfectly on top of the empty drive bay. In fact the built in SSD portion had to be sliced out with a razor blade. I had to buy a tool kit and gut the entire Mac Mini and remove both drives from the drive bay.
You can either configure them with software RAID, or use Apple's 'Fusion' scheme to make an SSD and a traditional hard disk in to one big drive with it automatically moving important files to the faster SSD. Phil Schiller said that an Aperture photo import using the fusion drive was nearly as fast as that when using a standard flash drive. My installation was a bit more complicated as I had a 1TB fusion drive with bad HDD. Disassembly of Mac Mini 2014, changing the dead Fusion drive (consisting of 128GB Apple SSD and 1TB Hard Drive).TCSUNBOW SSD 1TB. As standard the Mac mini will treat two internal drives as two separate drives, e.g.
It manages everything in the background - by default, all of your Mac's apps are stored on the SSD, but as you use the computer it learns what you use the most and moves those apps to the SSD to increase performance. This drive combines a 128GB flash storage drive with a 1TB or 3TB HDD, and Apple claims that performance is nearly equal that of a standard flash drive. Despite the name, it's actually two drives working in a special arrangement. As part of its radically-redesigned new iMac, Apple announced a new hybrid "fusion drive" for both the iMac and Mac mini. When Apple updated the iMac and Mac mini in late 2012, it introduced a new storage option called Fusion Drive.