Wouldn't a Back-up Drive cover any potential catastrophes? Not trying to be argumentative. The Fusion drive seems to offer good performance and a lot of storage for the money opposed to an SSD 1/4 the size for the same money.
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Wouldn't a Back-up Drive cover any potential catastrophes? Not trying to be argumentative. The Fusion drive seems to offer good performance and a lot of storage for the money opposed to an SSD 1/4 the size for the same money.
Well, they have to do something to try to top the disappointment of the 2014 mini. A computer that tries to kill us might do the trick...
A backup is an absolute must for any disk. Me, I just do not like any additional hocus pocus on my disk besides one big C disk. I even do not like RAID.
This philosophy has served me well. I am a hard drive fanatic. And I dream of hyper fast PCIe SSD's pretty much every night. They are so cool.
I like things to be one way or the other, but not both. Imagine how I feel about tablets that turn into a laptop??? Never happen
A backup is an absolute must for any disk. Me, I just do not like any additional hocus pocus on my disk besides one big C disk. I even do not like RAID.
This philosophy has served me well. I am a hard drive fanatic. And I dream of hyper fast PCIe SSD's pretty much every night. They are so cool.
I like things to be one way or the other, but not both. Imagine how I feel about tablets that turn into a laptop??? Never happen
Can fusion drive disks be formatted so that it become 2 seperate disks?
You can separate a supplied Fusion Drive into its constituent parts, and you can create your very own Fusion Drive from any two drives.
Here is one random article on the process. Fusion Drives are underpinned by Apple's 'Core Storage' tech, which I believe is *still* not supported by Disk Utility under Yosemite. It's all done with Terminal commands.
Here is one random article on the process. Fusion Drives are underpinned by Apple's 'Core Storage' tech, which I believe is *still* not supported by Disk Utility under Yosemite. It's all done with Terminal commands.
A backup is an absolute must for any disk. Me, I just do not like any additional hocus pocus on my disk besides one big C disk. I even do not like RAID.
This philosophy has served me well. I am a hard drive fanatic. And I dream of hyper fast PCIe SSD's pretty much every night. They are so cool.
I like things to be one way or the other, but not both. Imagine how I feel about tablets that turn into a laptop??? Never happen
I love spinning disks... in the 3.5" format, on the other side of an ethernet cable, and with a wall between me and the disks. Not in my computer though. And merged to a single volume with my SSD? No thanks!
The thought of spinning disks always reminds me of this Erick Brenn Plate Spinning on the The Ed Sullivan Show
"The thought of spinning disks always reminds me of this Erick Brenn Plate Spinning on the The Ed Sullivan Show"
Man you're not just old but indeed prehistoric ... frightening that I know what you're referring to...
Man you're not just old but indeed prehistoric ... frightening that I know what you're referring to...
I am really surprised they put such a rubbish 5400rpm HDD in the 2014 Mini. Having seen myself the speed difference between the 2009 stock 5400rpm HDD and the 7200rpm WD Black I replaced it with it is really "cheap and nasty" what they did with the model range. I am surprised they didn't put SSD's in as standard even if that meant lifting the price a little. In fact given how much money Apple is making now (and wasting on acquisitions like Beats) they could have out SSDs in and just kept the same pricing. They give the OSX upgrades away now so why not get alittle aggressive with the Mini to attract more people into / further into the Apple eco-system
I have to admit I still remember that.
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I could see it maybe in the $499 one but the $699 should start with at least the 128GB blade. Hell they own 25% of the ssd and ram production.
Yes. And one of the cooler setups is using the split ssd as a boot drive and split HDD as a time machine destination. Have the entire config built in. Particularly with a traveling laptop, if the half size SSD can be enough.
What? Why do you care about that so specifically? Are you using alternate data streams or something? I mean, I don't like using cloud storage for a similar reason of data integrity, but fusion drive is far more control than cloud.
I see that the WD black (7200RPM) has 28db noise and 1.75W power v. 25dba noise and 1.4W power with the blue (5400RPM). Maybe significant for an ultrabook. But who cares, it's a Mini.
The prices are about the same; the WD black is actually cheaper at Provantage. I'd rather have the 7200.
Sometimes life feels just like that! Thanks, I had not seen that since... its original showing on actual TV
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Mainly for backup purposes. I realize it is not logical, but I hate even the thought of one going bad and bringing down the other. Plus, it may think I want a file on the slow part, and I may want it on the SSD for whatever reason. And THAT is just way too much to ever have to think about
Kind of like when a RAID controller goes south, or a virus gets on a RAID drive. It instantly gets to the other drive.
At that point, if you were thinking RAID is backup you will find out just how wrong that idea is
Agree, this is 2014. No need for slow inefficient 5400 rpm drives in macs.
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What config mac mini will we see in 2015-2016? My jobs-back-from-the-dead-fantasy config is quad-core skylake with *upgradable* ram (32GB max), iris pro, ssd standard. Basically what we should've gotten this year, with Haswell instead of Skylake.
Upgradable RAM is gone for good on the Minis. Can't see them giving it back. The Minis are now headless 13" rMPBs.
SSD standard will happen when 512GB ssd can meet the 499$ price point. Consumer desktops like the Mini and iMac are supposed to be family "photo/video vaults", or that's how I see the reasoning behind Apple not going for low capacity SSDs like on the Airs for the default Mini/iMac configurations available in stores. Fusion drive standard would be nice though, and completely possible.
32GB of soldered ram as an option won't happen for a looooong time, unfortunately.
It's absolutely possible.
You can split Fusion Drives. I did that on my imac late 2013.