From late 2012 until 2021, Apple sold many iMacs and Mac minis with Fusion Drives. Did they really offer the best of both worlds, and why have they gone now?
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Single-user mode to run fsck to check and repair your boot disk became tricky with Fusion Drives. With a T2 chip, it’s not practical in its traditional form.
How does the volume structure differ between Fusion Drives in HFS+ and APFS formats? Does Disk Utility show an accurate picture?
Stories about 32-bit support, APFS and Fusion Drives, widespread app problems, failed updates, Time machine, and privacy protection.
With narrowing of the cost difference between Fusion Drives and full-size SSDs, it’s worth considering likely differences in working life.
They’re almost everywhere now: UUIDs and GUIDs identify disk volumes, printers, even the processes running on your Mac. Here’s an explanation.
Sometimes the Sierra installer app fails, leaving you frustratingly still in El Capitan. Here’s what to do next.
Back in February 2016, a pioneering project published in MacFormat magazine (pp 64-67) demonstrated how users could make […]
Enjoy being a computer owner-user-maintainer while you can: those days are NUMbered.
How to use prototypes to save effort, custom user attributes to store content, and run commands, to great effect.
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