It’s the OS, I think, Chuck. I have a fusion drive on my iMac 27” and it is
very speedy to start up.
Chris
> On 24 Dec 15, at 21:36, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 'd never heard of a fusion drive until today but it didn't take long to
> figure out what it was. I've heard of hybrid drives before but haven't paid
> them much attention. Seagate and Toshiba produce them but all their
> implementations only have 8GB of flash storage while Apple appears to use
> 128GB of flash along with 1 or 3TB of conventional magnetic storage. It's
> unclear to me how the 8GB of storage is managed in the Seagate and Toshiba
> drives but the Apple drives are actively managed such that the SSD space has
> the most frequently used data. And I don't know what manages the drive. The
> drive itself or the OS or both.
>
> I'm glad I don't do this stuff any more. Managing writes on SSDs is
> extremely complicated and only made worse by managing it as a cache.
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