The annoying thing about recent Macs, especially 21.5” models, was that the SSD part of the Fusion Drive was only 26GB, so it fills up very quickly and any speed benefit is lost when larger apps have to be stored on the hard drive part.
I’ve set up over 25 iMacs with SSD+SSD fusion drives in the last few months, the speed increase is incredible. _ Regards Sam Mullen +44 (0)7747778022 <tel://+447747778022> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> www.macambulance.com <http://www.macambulance.com/> MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration number 8466597 This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > On 20 Nov 2020, at 20:47, 'Jason P. Davies' via Sussex Mac User Group > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Fusion drives have an SSD *part* so I would expect it to work ok. I’m no > expert on them though. > > Thanks, > > -Jason > ---------------------------------- > Sent from my iPhone > ---------------------------------- > > On 20 Nov 2020 at 16:49:50 GMT, mac98aop <[email protected]> wrote: > > And I still feel optimistic that Big Sur should work on a Fusion Drive. > Hate to think it's been left behind when it's really still far from > old/obsolete. I know it's all about SSD now, but perhaps I'm being too > optimistic. > > At least if it bricks the iMac, it'll be up to Apple to resolve?! Even > without warranty, if an Apple OS update ruins an Apple machine that it's > released for, I'd like to think they'd help out?! > > On Friday, 20 November 2020 at 16:32:24 UTC mac98aop wrote: > >> Ok, thanks Sam and Tony. >> >> I'll peruse the Support pages and see what's what. >> And I won't be installing the SSD myself, Sam, it sounds terrifying - but >> might be the way to go with experienced expert! I did my MBPro as you >> advised a while back, but that was easy in comparison! >> >> Adam >> >> On Friday, 20 November 2020 at 16:30:19 UTC [email protected] wrote: >> >>> I’d avoid updating to Big Sur with a fusion drive. This has failed for a >>> number of iMac users to date although rebuilding the fusion drive seems to >>> overcome the problem ( not aware what is required to do this other than it >>> requires use of the Terminal app). >>> >>> You can check on this on the Apple Community Forum in Apple's Support >>> pages. >>> >>> -- >>> Tony Crooks >>> [email protected] >>> +44 7428 706227 <+44%207428%20706227> >>> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/6aec264f-91a3-4955-bcd3-e2b5ec7d2bf1n%40googlegroups.com. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/92E28068-AB86-41EF-BEA5-01504E613576.goodhumans%40app.preside.io. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/E47211FA-BAF1-4FD7-8D19-E8DEED7A77D4%40macambulance.com.
