Yes! You can remove your current Fusion Drive set and replace one or both of the drives.
As to your choices here, I think you’re pushing it, a 10 TB drive is just too big for your iMac (heat & power) It would also be less attractive trying to resell and its performance might not meet your needs limited to SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) throughput.
I would limit the HDD to 4 TB as the largest SATA drive. Then you have the question of the PCIe/NVMe SSD drive.
Frankly, I wouldn’t setup a Fusion Drive at all!
I would configure the blade SSD as the boot drive with all of my apps and leave as much of the drive I can empty! So if I have 128 GB of Apps I would get a 512 GB SSD. This allows the system to leverage the rest of the SSD as virtual RAM as well as cache & paging space for the apps making them much faster! A bigger 1 TB would be even better for video editing!
If speed is needed for the deeper storage I would go with a RAID’ed external Thunderbolt3 drive and not bother with the internal HDD at all!
Last year I helped setup 4 iMac’s for video editing. Each was bought with 1 TB blade SSD’s and we configured [https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/express-4m2?Source=18Jul9&utm_source=bm23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Image+-+OWC+Express+4M2+with+Thunderbolt+3&utm_content=MS-+Express+4M2+Announcement|OWC Express 4M2] external drives and lastly a very large NAS system for the video archive.
'''OK, So how do you do this?'''
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First you’ll need to break the Fusion Drive set following this [https://www.macworld.com/article/2015664/how-to-split-up-a-fusion-drive.html|How to split up a Fusion Drive]
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First you’ll need to break the Fusion Drive set following this [https://www.lifewire.com/split-fusion-drive-apart-2260166|Split Your Fusion Drive Apart]
Then to take current HDD out you’ll need to follow this guide [guide|30522] and if you want to get to the blade SSD you’ll need to follow this guide [guide|30537] and here is the needed blade SSD [https://beetstech.com/product/solid-state-drive-512gb|Apple Proprietary PCIe 3.0 x4 interface SSD’s] and here more info on the PCIe SSD’s [https://beetstech.com/blog/apple-proprietary-ssd-ultimate-guide-to-specs-and-upgrades|The Ultimate Guide to Apple’s Proprietary SSDs] which explains in great detail the different SSD’s Apple has used over the years.
Yes! You can remove your current Fusion Drive set and replace one or both of the drives.
As to your choices here, I think you’re pushing it, a 10 TB drive is just too big for your iMac (heat & power) It would also be less attractive trying to resell and its performance might not meet your needs limited to SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) throughput.
I would limit the HDD to 4 TB as the largest SATA drive. Then you have the question of the PCIe/MVMe SSD drive.
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I would limit the HDD to 4 TB as the largest SATA drive. Then you have the question of the PCIe/NVMe SSD drive.
Frankly, I wouldn’t setup a Fusion Drive at all!
I would configure the blade SSD as the boot drive with all of my apps and leave as much of the drive I can empty! So if I have 128 GB of Apps I would get a 512 GB SSD. This allows the system to leverage the rest of the SSD as virtual RAM as well as cache & paging space for the apps making them much faster! A bigger 1 TB would be even better for video editing!
If speed is needed for the deeper storage I would go with a RAID’ed external Thunderbolt3 drive and not bother with the internal HDD at all!
Last year I helped setup 4 iMac’s for video editing. Each was bought with 1 TB blade SSD’s and we configured [https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/express-4m2?Source=18Jul9&utm_source=bm23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Image+-+OWC+Express+4M2+with+Thunderbolt+3&utm_content=MS-+Express+4M2+Announcement|OWC Express 4M2] external drives and lastly a very large NAS system for the video archive.
'''OK, So how do you do this?'''
First you’ll need to break the Fusion Drive set following this [https://www.macworld.com/article/2015664/how-to-split-up-a-fusion-drive.html|How to split up a Fusion Drive]
Then to take current HDD out you’ll need to follow this guide [guide|30522] and if you want to get to the blade SSD you’ll need to follow this guide [guide|30537] and here is the needed blade SSD [https://beetstech.com/product/solid-state-drive-512gb|Apple Proprietary PCIe 3.0 x4 interface SSD’s] and here more info on the PCIe SSD’s [https://beetstech.com/blog/apple-proprietary-ssd-ultimate-guide-to-specs-and-upgrades|The Ultimate Guide to Apple’s Proprietary SSDs] which explains in great detail the different SSD’s Apple has used over the years.
Yes! You can remove your current Fusion Drive set and replace one or both of the drives.
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As to your choices here, I think you’re pushing it a 10 TB drive is just too big for your iMac (heat & power) It would also be less attractive trying to resell and its performance might not meet your needs.
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As to your choices here, I think you’re pushing it, a 10 TB drive is just too big for your iMac (heat & power) It would also be less attractive trying to resell and its performance might not meet your needs limited to SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) throughput.
I would limit the HDD to 4 TB as the largest SATA drive. Then you have the question of the PCIe/MVMe SSD drive.
Frankly, I wouldn’t setup a Fusion Drive at all!
I would configure the blade SSD as the boot drive with all of my apps and leave as much of the drive I can empty! So if I have 128 GB of Apps I would get a 512 GB SSD. This allows the system to leverage the rest of the SSD as virtual RAM as well as cache & paging space for the apps making them much faster! A bigger 1 TB would be even better for video editing!
If speed is needed for the deeper storage I would go with a RAID’ed external Thunderbolt3 drive and not bother with the internal HDD at all!
Last year I helped setup 4 iMac’s for video editing. Each was bought with 1 TB blade SSD’s and we configured [https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/express-4m2?Source=18Jul9&utm_source=bm23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Image+-+OWC+Express+4M2+with+Thunderbolt+3&utm_content=MS-+Express+4M2+Announcement|OWC Express 4M2] external drives and lastly a very large NAS system for the video archive.
'''OK, So how do you do this?'''
First you’ll need to break the Fusion Drive set following this [https://www.macworld.com/article/2015664/how-to-split-up-a-fusion-drive.html|How to split up a Fusion Drive]
Then to take current HDD out you’ll need to follow this guide [guide|30522] and if you want to get to the blade SSD you’ll need to follow this guide [guide|30537] and here is the needed blade SSD [https://beetstech.com/product/solid-state-drive-512gb|Apple Proprietary PCIe 3.0 x4 interface SSD’s] and here more info on the PCIe SSD’s [https://beetstech.com/blog/apple-proprietary-ssd-ultimate-guide-to-specs-and-upgrades|The Ultimate Guide to Apple’s Proprietary SSDs] which explains in great detail the different SSD’s Apple has used over the years.
Yes! You can remove your current Fusion Drive set and replace one or both of the drives.
As to your choices here, I think you’re pushing it a 10 TB drive is just too big for your iMac (heat & power) It would also be less attractive trying to resell and its performance might not meet your needs.
I would limit the HDD to 4 TB as the largest SATA drive. Then you have the question of the PCIe/MVMe SSD drive.
Frankly, I wouldn’t setup a Fusion Drive at all!
I would configure the blade SSD as the boot drive with all of my apps and leave as much of the drive I can empty! So if I have 128 GB of Apps I would get a 512 GB SSD. This allows the system to leverage the rest of the SSD as virtual RAM as well as cache & paging space for the apps making them much faster! A bigger 1 TB would be even better for video editing!
If speed is needed for the deeper storage I would go with a RAID’ed external Thunderbolt3 drive and not bother with the internal HDD at all!
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Last year I helped setup 4 iMac’s for video editing each was bought with 1 TB blade SSD’s and we configured [https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/express-4m2?Source=18Jul9&utm_source=bm23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Image+-+OWC+Express+4M2+with+Thunderbolt+3&utm_content=MS-+Express+4M2+Announcement|OWC Express 4M2] external drives and lastly a very large NAS system for the archive.
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Last year I helped setup 4 iMac’s for video editing. Each was bought with 1 TB blade SSD’s and we configured [https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/express-4m2?Source=18Jul9&utm_source=bm23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Image+-+OWC+Express+4M2+with+Thunderbolt+3&utm_content=MS-+Express+4M2+Announcement|OWC Express 4M2] external drives and lastly a very large NAS system for the video archive.
'''OK, So how do you do this?'''
First you’ll need to break the Fusion Drive set following this [https://www.macworld.com/article/2015664/how-to-split-up-a-fusion-drive.html|How to split up a Fusion Drive]
Then to take current HDD out you’ll need to follow this guide [guide|30522] and if you want to get to the blade SSD you’ll need to follow this guide [guide|30537] and here is the needed blade SSD [https://beetstech.com/product/solid-state-drive-512gb|Apple Proprietary PCIe 3.0 x4 interface SSD’s] and here more info on the PCIe SSD’s [https://beetstech.com/blog/apple-proprietary-ssd-ultimate-guide-to-specs-and-upgrades|The Ultimate Guide to Apple’s Proprietary SSDs] which explains in great detail the different SSD’s Apple has used over the years.
Yes! You can remove your current Fusion Drive set and replace one or both of the drives. As to your choices here I think you’re pushing it a 10 TB drive is just too big for your iMac (size height and power) It would be also less attractive trying to resell and its performance might not meet your needs.
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Yes! You can remove your current Fusion Drive set and replace one or both of the drives.
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So what would I do??
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As to your choices here, I think you’re pushing it a 10 TB drive is just too big for your iMac (heat & power) It would also be less attractive trying to resell and its performance might not meet your needs.
I would limit the HDD to 4 TB as the largest SATA drive. Then you have the question of the PCIe/MVMe SSD drive.
Frankly, I wouldn’t setup a Fusion Drive at all!
I would configure the blade SSD as the boot drive with all of my apps and leave as much of the drive I can empty! So if I have 128 GB of Apps I would get a 512 GB SSD. This allows the system to leverage the rest of the SSD as virtual RAM as well as cache & paging space for the apps making them much faster! A bigger 1 TB would be even better for video editing!
If speed is needed for the deeper storage I would go with a RAID’ed external Thunderbolt3 drive and not bother with the internal HDD at all!
Last year I helped setup 4 iMac’s for video editing each was bought with 1 TB blade SSD’s and we configured [https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/express-4m2?Source=18Jul9&utm_source=bm23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Image+-+OWC+Express+4M2+with+Thunderbolt+3&utm_content=MS-+Express+4M2+Announcement|OWC Express 4M2] external drives and lastly a very large NAS system for the archive.
'''OK, So how do you do this?'''
First you’ll need to break the Fusion Drive set following this [https://www.macworld.com/article/2015664/how-to-split-up-a-fusion-drive.html|How to split up a Fusion Drive]
Then to take current HDD out you’ll need to follow this guide [guide|30522] and if you want to get to the blade SSD you’ll need to follow this guide [guide|30537] and here is the needed blade SSD [https://beetstech.com/product/solid-state-drive-512gb|Apple Proprietary PCIe 3.0 x4 interface SSD’s] and here more info on the PCIe SSD’s [https://beetstech.com/blog/apple-proprietary-ssd-ultimate-guide-to-specs-and-upgrades|The Ultimate Guide to Apple’s Proprietary SSDs] which explains in great detail the different SSD’s Apple has used over the years.
Yes! You can remove your current Fusion Drive set and replace one or both of the drives. As to your choices here I think you’re pushing it a 10 TB drive is just too big for your iMac (size height and power) It would be also less attractive trying to resell and its performance might not meet your needs.
So what would I do??
I would limit the HDD to 4 TB as the largest SATA drive. Then you have the question of the PCIe/MVMe SSD drive.
Frankly, I wouldn’t setup a Fusion Drive at all!
I would configure the blade SSD as the boot drive with all of my apps and leave as much of the drive I can empty! So if I have 128 GB of Apps I would get a 512 GB SSD. This allows the system to leverage the rest of the SSD as virtual RAM as well as cache & paging space for the apps making them much faster! A bigger 1 TB would be even better for video editing!
If speed is needed for the deeper storage I would go with a RAID’ed external Thunderbolt3 drive and not bother with the internal HDD at all!
Last year I helped setup 4 iMac’s for video editing each was bought with 1 TB blade SSD’s and we configured [https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/express-4m2?Source=18Jul9&utm_source=bm23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Image+-+OWC+Express+4M2+with+Thunderbolt+3&utm_content=MS-+Express+4M2+Announcement|OWC Express 4M2] external drives and lastly a very large NAS system for the archive.
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'''OK, So how do you do this?'''
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First you’ll need to break the Fusion Drive set following this [https://www.macworld.com/article/2015664/how-to-split-up-a-fusion-drive.html|How to split up a Fusion Drive]
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Then to take current HDD out you’ll need to follow this guide [guide|30522] and if you want to get to the blade SSD you’ll need to follow this guide [guide|30537] and here is the needed blade SSD [https://beetstech.com/product/solid-state-drive-512gb|Apple Proprietary PCIe 3.0 x4 interface SSD’s] and here more info on the PCIe SSD’s [https://beetstech.com/blog/apple-proprietary-ssd-ultimate-guide-to-specs-and-upgrades|The Ultimate Guide to Apple’s Proprietary SSDs] which explains in great detail the different SSD’s Apple has used over the years.
Yes! You can remove your current Fusion Drive set and replace one or both of the drives. As to your choices here I think you’re pushing it a 10 TB drive is just too big for your iMac (size height and power) It would be also less attractive trying to resell and its performance might not meet your needs.
So what would I do??
-
I would limit the HDD to 4 TB as the largest SATA drive. Then you have the question of the PCIe/MVMe SSD drive. Frankly I wouldn’t setup a Fusion Drive at all! I would configure the SSD as the boot drive with all of my apps and leave as much of the drive I can empty! So if I have 128 GB of Apps I would get a 512 GB SSD. This allows the system to leakage the rest of the SSD as virtual RAM as well as cache & paging space for the apps making them much faster!
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I would limit the HDD to 4 TB as the largest SATA drive. Then you have the question of the PCIe/MVMe SSD drive.
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Frankly, I wouldn’t setup a Fusion Drive at all!
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I would configure the blade SSD as the boot drive with all of my apps and leave as much of the drive I can empty! So if I have 128 GB of Apps I would get a 512 GB SSD. This allows the system to leverage the rest of the SSD as virtual RAM as well as cache & paging space for the apps making them much faster! A bigger 1 TB would be even better for video editing!
If speed is needed for the deeper storage I would go with a RAID’ed external Thunderbolt3 drive and not bother with the internal HDD at all!
Last year I helped setup 4 iMac’s for video editing each was bought with 1 TB blade SSD’s and we configured [https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/express-4m2?Source=18Jul9&utm_source=bm23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Image+-+OWC+Express+4M2+with+Thunderbolt+3&utm_content=MS-+Express+4M2+Announcement|OWC Express 4M2] external drives and lastly a very large NAS system for the archive.
Yes! You can remove your current Fusion Drive set and replace one or both of the drives. As to your choices here I think you’re pushing it a 10 TB drive is just too big for your iMac (size height and power) It would be also less attractive trying to resell and its performance might not meet your needs.
So what would I do??
I would limit the HDD to 4 TB as the largest SATA drive. Then you have the question of the PCIe/MVMe SSD drive. Frankly I wouldn’t setup a Fusion Drive at all! I would configure the SSD as the boot drive with all of my apps and leave as much of the drive I can empty! So if I have 128 GB of Apps I would get a 512 GB SSD. This allows the system to leakage the rest of the SSD as virtual RAM as well as cache & paging space for the apps making them much faster!
If speed is needed for the deeper storage I would go with a RAID’ed external Thunderbolt3 drive and not bother with the internal HDD at all!
Last year I helped setup 4 iMac’s for video editing each was bought with 1 TB blade SSD’s and we configured [https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/express-4m2?Source=18Jul9&utm_source=bm23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Image+-+OWC+Express+4M2+with+Thunderbolt+3&utm_content=MS-+Express+4M2+Announcement|OWC Express 4M2] external drives and lastly a very large NAS system for the archive.