Fusion drive on 2011 mid Mac mini...

Hi everyone,
I understand how the new Fusion drive works. But only available on new macs.
I've been watching videos on YouTube that show how to make an ssd and hdd into one volume. And they show after the upgrade that these upgrades work. Now, I've also been hearing from other sources that it is impossible to make your own Fusion drive. That all you are doing is adding the two different drives. That the two drives don't actually don't work like I've been seeing on you tube.
I really do want to make my Mac mini into Fusion drive Mac. I don't have the funds for a new computer. I've also seen the new hybrid drives. 8gb ssd with 750 gb hhd to kind of a poor man's version of the Fusion drive.
So, I really need the advice of the experts here.
Thanks everyone,
mhh

1. Fusion Drive works on OS level, or more precisely, it lays between the physical storage and the file system, therefore there are few requirements for hardware, only you need an SSD + an HDD to make it work.
2. With the two drives properly installed, boot your mac with a recovery disk (10.8.3 and later) or with the Internet recovery (which makes sure that you have the latest recovery image), the disk utility will prompt that your drives are not working correctly and needs to be fixed. Fix it as prompted (note that your data on BOTH drives will be erased, so make a backup before doing this), and you will get a fusion drive, automatically, without any further configuration.
3. Reboot and restore from your backup, you are ready to go!
Addtionally:
1. You will need to enable the TRIM support for your SSD (it's pretty important) manually (try TRIM Enabler: http://www.groths.org/trim-enabler/ ), because OS X only provide native TRIM support for Apple stock SSDs, but not for any 3rd party ones.
2. As someone said above, the RAM capacity has little relevency with the performance of Fusion Drive.
3. Hybrid only achieves a small part (read and write caching) of what Fusion Drive provides, as the SSD part is too small. Fusion Drive stores the whole OS and other frequently accessed data almost permanently on the SSD part, which means you will have most of your job done much faster.

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