You can create your Fusion drive by restarting into the Recovery HD ( Command+R). You don't need to use Terminal commands with OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2 and above (which includes OS X Mavericks). am I missing something?Ĭan someone temper my enthusiasm before I bite off more than I can chew with a perfectly good 6-month-old Mac mini? I always back-up to Time Machine so am not overly concerned about doubling the risk of data loss with a Fusion set-up. Better still, i t was mentioned, in another thread, that Disk Utility in later Mac Minis automatically set-up two installed drives as a single Fusion Drive volume, so I would not even have to delve into the dark arts of the Terminal to set it up, just pick-up a disk doubler kit from iFixit or OWC, drop in the SSD, load OS 10.9 onto the SSD, boot into Disk Utilities, select 'Repair Disk' then go and make a cup of tea!Įven though I might have to forfeit my remaining 6 months of Applecare, it seems like a compelling way to vastly improve my Mac mini's disappointingly sluggish performance. The clunky 5,400rpm HDD that it came with is laboriously slow and the opportuity to add a 256GB SSD (probably a Sandisk?), for a lot less than the incremental price hike of having specified a 128GB Fusion Drive in the first place, seems very tempting. With the falling prices of SSDs, I am fascinated by the prospect of adding one to my Late-2012 quad-core i7 Mac mini and set it up as a single Fusion Drive volume with the existing 1TB HDD.
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