Mac Hybrid Drive

I bought a 320gb momentus xt hybrid drive and a sata enclosure with a firewire 800 connection to use with my 2 26ghz intel core 2 duo mac mini.

Mac hybrid drive.

Fusion drive is a combination of a fast ssd and traditional hdd to give you good capacity and performance. Solid state hybrid drives blend conventional platter based hard drives and the new solid state drive technologies. The fusion drive on a mac is made up of two physical drives. Fusion drives have a small solid state drive for commonly accessed files and quick startups.

If you have been looking at upgrading your hard drive for a laptop or desktop computer you may have come across the term sshd this is a new marketing term coined by seagate to label what had previously been referred to as hybrid hard drives. The wonderfully fast performance of an ssd and the large but cheap storage space of a standard hard drive. My mac mini has 4gb 1067 mhz ddr3 ram and a standard. An ssd and a standard platter based drive.

If your fusion drive appears as two drives instead of one in the finder it s no longer working as a fusion drive. It combines the best of both worlds. The advantage of your mac s hybrid drive. I tested an imac with a fusion drive in an apple store and it booted in probably less than a third of.