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A Fusion Drive (http://www.macworld.com/article/2013805/fusion-drive-an-overview.html) gives you the best of two worlds: the high
storage capacity of a traditional platter-based hard drive, and the speed boost of a solid-state drive, without you having to manually
manage files. Apple offers the Fusion Drive as build-to-order options for the $799 Mac mini
(http://www.macworld.com/article/2013675/lab-tested-the-mac-mini-maximized-with-fusion-drive.html) and the upcoming iMac
(http://www.macworld.com/article/2012880/apple-slims-down-imac-in-latest-update.html), but if you are willing, able, and have the
parts, you can make your own Fusion Drive.
To build a Fusion Drive, you need to use the Terminal. We're going to lay out the commands you need in a way that most can
understand, and you don't need to enter a lot of them. However, a warning to anyone who has never used the Terminal: Working with
the Terminal isn't as simple as a graphic interface, as spelling counts and you don't always have a nice list of commands. You also
need to be using OS X 10.8.2 or later.
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1TB Hitachi hard drive (from a Mac mini) and 250GB OWC Mercury Extreme SSD.
You need two drives to make a Fusion Drive, and if you want to get the speed boost, one should be an SSD. In our setup, we used a
Hitachi 1TB 2.5-inch hard drive (the one that ships in a Mac mini) and a 240GB OWC Mercury Extreme Pro
(http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/Mercury_Extreme_Pro_6G) 6G SSD.
Apple chooses the drives they use based on extensive testing, which is why they recommend buying a Fusion Drive at the point of
purchasing your Mac. Apple does not support users who have built their own Fusion Drive. (In our lab experiments, I was able to
create a Fusion Drive with two flash thumb drives.)
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If you aren't going to include the drive you booted from in a Fusion Drive, you can open the Terminal app (Applications > Utilities >
Terminal). This would be the case, say, if you're using a Mac Pro with multiple drive bays, since you can format them both externally.
If you want to include your current boot drive as part of the Fusion Drive, you're going to need to boot into recovery mode and run
Terminal from there. The CoreStorage process used to "fuse" the drives also formats them, and you can't do that to a drive used as
the boot drive. You can boot into recovery mode by holding Command+R when starting up your Mac, and open Terminal from there.
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One last thing to note: If you're using a Mac currently in Apple's product line, such as the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro
(http://www.macworld.com/article/2013072/review-13-inch-retina-macbook-pro-offers-optimal-choice-for-lightweight-laptop-
users.html) or the new Mac mini (http://www.macworld.com/article/2013385/review-new-mac-mini-offers-an-attractive-bang-for-the-
buck.html), you can't use just any old install disc as a boot disc. Those machines require a special version of Mountain Lion that's not
yet in the App Store. So in this circumstance, recovery mode is your best bet.
List the drives you system can see. Use the following command to list the drives attached to your system:
diskutil list
The drive mount points are labeled /dev/disk#. Make a note of the mount points for the disks you want to make into a Fusion Drive.
In our example, /dev/disk0 is the boot disk, while /dev/disk1 and /dev/disk2 are the SSD and hard drive (respectively) that we
want to put together as a Fusion Drive. An easy way to tell drives apart is by their size and their name. Make sure you don't confuse
them, as the Terminal doesn't give much warning before wiping your drive.
Create a logical volume group. Let's create a CoreStorage logical volume group, the pool of data that will be made from the
combined space of our physical drives. Use the following format of the diskutil command:
Going off the example using /dev/disk1 and /dev/disk2 as the drives to combine, I simply type:
When the process is done, your logical volume group should be completed and the command will finish by presenting you with a
unique identifier for the group, which you should copy to your clipboard. It should look similar to this:
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The UUID is the unique identifier you want to copy
Create a logical volume. Now that we have a logical volume group, we can create the logical volume, what your Mac will recognize
as a single drive. Use the following format of the diskutil command:
lvgUUID is the unique identifier you copied from the previous step.
type use Journaled HFS+ (typed as jhfs+).
name can be whatever you want to name the drive (traditionally "Macintosh HD"). Make sure you use quotes if there's a space
in the name.
size is how much of the "pool" that you want to make into a drive, using the following suffixes: B(ytes), S(512-byte-blocks),
K(ilobytes), M(egabytes), G(igabytes), T(erabytes), P(etabytes), or (%) a percentage of the current size of the logical volume
group.
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The final command to create the Fusion Drive can be seen at the top of the Terminal screen
That will create a volume named Macintosh HD, and fill the entire logical volume group (100%), or all the space on the two drives.
Enjoy!
Once that command is done, you have your Fusion Drive. You can now restore Mountain Lion back onto it, or do whatever you want.
The only thing to remember is that they both need to be connected at the same time to work.
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