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DIY Fusion drive - do I have to wipe both drives???

This is OSX 10.9, I have an existing 1TB HDD (with recovery partition and bootcamp partition) and a new, essentially empty 240GB SSD (crucial M500). I see DIY sites saying that one should wipe both drives and use a third drive or a USB drive for booting into recovery and doing the...
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- Jul 27, 2014
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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2010 iMac SSD recommendations?

Just some follow up, perhaps prematurely. I appear to have successfully added the M500 (250GB) SSD to my 2010 iMac. this is a long post, but I post it in case folks are afraid to crack open their iMac. I would do it again, though I pray that I will not have to. the parts I was most nervous...
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- Post #12
- Jul 24, 2014
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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2010 iMac SSD recommendations?

I ordered a 250GB M500 and an owc install kit from amazon. Plan is to install as a second drive then make it a fusion drive with the original. This is shaky because the the original imac drive is now 3.5 years old...but the plan is to keep things backed up and the most important files (photos)...
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- Post #11
- Jul 19, 2014
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Need recommendations on NAS unit.

I would add that if the nas hosts anything important, then it should be backed up as well. I have a synology 213 with two WD red drives, in synology "raid" 1, and back to up to an external USB hdd and to crashplan. Works well, though I am almost certainly under utilizing it. I'm also wondering...
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- Post #9
- May 28, 2014
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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2010 iMac SSD recommendations?

Any more input? At this point I'm leaning toward a 250gb m500 ssd ($105 on the 'zon), and will also get winclone ($30). I'll move an image of my bootcamp partition to my synology, will make an OSX sd card booter, then will nuke/repave the hdd and add into a fusion drive. I will then use...
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- Post #9
- May 26, 2014
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Crucial M500 or Crucial M550 or Sandisk extreme 2 or Sandisk x210

To others who know more than I, what usages will m550 stand out over m500??
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- Post #5
- May 26, 2014
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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2010 iMac SSD recommendations?

wow thanks! great idea. If I make a fusion drive, I can retain my current win7 partition on the HDD, and I can use a smaller/cheaper SSD (which solves the whole "do I want to spend $500 bucks on a 3.5 year old computer" conundrum). questions: I see m500 drives are cheaper than comparable...
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- Post #7
- May 25, 2014
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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2010 iMac SSD recommendations?

I can see that, and putting the $$ of an SSD in may not be a great idea on a 3.5 year old PC...but the machine is so high specced (or is that misleading?). high specced or not, there is an obvious, fixable bottleneck. and the iMac I'd *like* would cost even more than this one did because of my...
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- Post #3
- May 24, 2014
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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2010 iMac SSD recommendations?

I'm considering extending the life of my mid 2010 27" iMac with an SSD, will replace the existing drive with an SSD. 2 questions: 1) anyone here done this? is shorting the temperature cable the best way to avoid spinny fans? does this work with bootcamp (both the SSD and the spinny fans)...
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- May 24, 2014
- Replies: 11
- Forum: Memory and Storage

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