Gotta train them kids up right! Good job! Russell Courtenay Sent from my old iMac
> On Apr 27, 2016, at 11:58 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Thank you for your clear response, Jim. You are correct — its a 27" iMac with > fusion drive. It sounds like the operating system won't have been affected by > the crash, which is good. Data lost shouldn't be a problem either, except for > possible losses in the few hours before the crash when the computer was > behaving badly. We use Time Machine, regularly make clones and do home files > backups on external drives, and recently signed up for Backblaze. (I also > have the same model of iMac — our son bought them as gifts for us from > profits he makes with his website, which he has developed and maintains using > iMacs. > > On Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at 6:00:13 PM UTC-7, Jim Scott wrote: > > > On Apr 26, 2016, at 4:28 PM, [email protected] <javascript:> wrote: > > > > My wife's iMac mechanical hard drive crash today, and will be replaced by > > Apple. What data/software does the solid-state drive hold? (I am definitely > > not technology inclined. I use computers, but my understanding of how they > > operate is not deep!) > > > > Bob > > > > Bob, > > You failed to tell us exactly which iMac you have, as well as its > specifications. But I’m going to guess that you have a fairly recent model > with Apple’s Fusion Drive installed. Apple’s proprietary Fusion Drive > software fuses an SSD (solid state drive) with a spinning platter hard disk > drive (HDD) so that the operating system sees the combined drives as one > contiguous storage volume. > > The SSD provides speed and the HDD provides economical storage capacity — the > best of both worlds. Apple uses algorithms to put the operating system and > the most frequently used applications on the SSD, and everything else on the > HDD. The Fusion Drive software “learns” what’s what over time, and it takes a > while for a newly activated Fusion Drive to reach peak operating speeds on a > daily basis. My late-2012 27” iMac with Fusion Drive boots to the desktop and > mail begins downloading in 14 seconds. But if I want to use a program that’s > infrequently used and thus is stored on the HDD, it often takes twice that > time or more to launch it. > > The average user of a Fusion Drive cannot determine what data is stored on > each drive because OS X simply presents the data as being on one drive. Thus > regular backups with Time Machine or Carbon Copy Cloner or another program > are necessary to protect data in case of hardware failure such as your wife’s > iMac has experienced. Hint, hint. :^) > > Jim Scott > Eureka, CA > > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group > for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml > <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> and our netiquette guide is at > http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > <http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To leave this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist > <http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist> > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "iMac Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
