I have looked at (and used) the Mac mini hard drive replacement so I apologize if this question is answered elsewhere. Please feel free to point me to the right spot.
This question will reveal my fusion confusion. I have the late 2012 Mac min that I wanted to extend the life on so I upgraded the memory to 16 GB and thought I would replace the original 1 TB fusion drive with a 1 TB all SSD drive. I purchased the hard drive upgrade kit from iFixit. I used Acronis True Image 2020 to clone the old drive to the new SSD drive.
The system has not been very stable so I took a look with Disk Utility. I am seeing a 1 TB drive grayed out. I see two volumes for the SSD. Originally, I THOUGHT, the Fusion drive was a hybrid all in one drive that included flash memory for caching. But as I have read more info on Fusion you can obviously create a fusion drive with two discrete drives.
The drive I removed (following the iFixit guide) appears to be a 128 GB SSD. I just looked closer last evening. This leads me to what may be a stupid question. Is there also a physical traditional platter/spindle based hard drive in the Mac mini? The bay where what I think is only a 128 GB SSD was empty after I removed that drive.
I am considering putting the original drive back in this evening and restart the process but in my cloning process via Acronis, there were not a lot of options so I am a bit lost as to why I have the unstable system and what appears to be a phantom drive in the Disk Utility. Any suggestions or guidance are greatly appreciated.
I have looked at (and used) the Mac mini hard drive replacement so I apologize if this question is answered elsewhere. Please feel free to point me to the right spot.
This question will reveal my fusion confusion. I have the late 2012 Mac min that I wanted to extend the life on so I upgraded the memory to 16 GB and thought I would replace the original 1 TB fusion drive with a 1 TB all SSD drive. I purchased the hard drive upgrade kit from iFixit. I used Acronis True Image 2020 to clone the old drive to the new SSD drive.
The system has not been very stable so I took a look with Disk Utility. I am seeing a 1 TB drive grayed out. I see two volumes for the SSD. Originally, I THOUGHT, the Fusion drive was a hybrid all in one drive that included flash memory for caching. But as I have read more info on Fusion you can obviously create a fusion drive with two discrete drives.
The drive I removed (following the iFixit guide) appears to be a 128 GB SSD. I just looked closer last evening. This leads me to what may be a stupid question. Is there also a physical traditional platter/spindle based hard drive in the Mac mini? The bay where what I think is only a 128 GB SSD was empty after I removed that drive.
I am considering putting the original drive back in this evening and restart the process but in my cloning process via Acronis, there were not a lot of options so I am a bit lost as to why I have the unstable system and what appears to be a phantom drive in the Disk Utility. Any suggestions or guidance are greatly appreciated.