malk
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Hi there,
finally got round to sort out my Imac, which is the 2011, i5, 20gb RAM, using DIY fusion with a 2TB HDD and a 250GB Samsung 840 SSD.
Thought id put some pics up of the process, and to mention a right result i had at the end which i wasnt expecting!!
Good old Disk utility helping me right out.
Im just waiting for the Time machine back up to sort itself out, then ill put up some pics i took of the process, and hopefully it might be of some help(getting screen off, using optibay caddy ).
At the end of the process, i was all geared up to use terminal, to type in the command line to create one logical volume using the 2tb HDD and the 250GB SSD.
But, as the SSD had failed, and i had just replaced it without wiping any data from the 2TB HDD that was still inside the Imac, when i booted using cmnd r, i went to diskutility to see if both drives were there, and being seen by OSX, it had the words FUSION, in red writing, .
I had never seen this before, so i clicked on the red writing, it then had a pop up window, stating that the 2TB HDD had been part of a Fusion set up, and as there is another drive(samsung SSD), would it like to fix the fusion , to create a logical volume, !!
i , of course agreed, clicked yes, and low and behold, in about 5 seconds, OSX had created and fixed my DIY fusion!!!2.250TB of Fusion goodness.
No terminal commands needed!!
How cool is that!!
Pics to follow...(im restoring over wifi, so its going to take ages..)
finally got round to sort out my Imac, which is the 2011, i5, 20gb RAM, using DIY fusion with a 2TB HDD and a 250GB Samsung 840 SSD.
Thought id put some pics up of the process, and to mention a right result i had at the end which i wasnt expecting!!
Good old Disk utility helping me right out.
Im just waiting for the Time machine back up to sort itself out, then ill put up some pics i took of the process, and hopefully it might be of some help(getting screen off, using optibay caddy ).
At the end of the process, i was all geared up to use terminal, to type in the command line to create one logical volume using the 2tb HDD and the 250GB SSD.
But, as the SSD had failed, and i had just replaced it without wiping any data from the 2TB HDD that was still inside the Imac, when i booted using cmnd r, i went to diskutility to see if both drives were there, and being seen by OSX, it had the words FUSION, in red writing, .
I had never seen this before, so i clicked on the red writing, it then had a pop up window, stating that the 2TB HDD had been part of a Fusion set up, and as there is another drive(samsung SSD), would it like to fix the fusion , to create a logical volume, !!
i , of course agreed, clicked yes, and low and behold, in about 5 seconds, OSX had created and fixed my DIY fusion!!!2.250TB of Fusion goodness.
No terminal commands needed!!
How cool is that!!
Pics to follow...(im restoring over wifi, so its going to take ages..)