Fusion drive sound issue
I just bought a new iMac to record music and do graphic design. I was told to buy the fusion drive as it's faster and better etc, so I did. To my surprise, there's a terrible crackling noise after 10 minutes or so when I'm playing music through my quartet usb interface. Now, these are quality bits of technology and I need this fixed. I've seen a few problems about this online but I can't seem to get rid of the issue with updates. I didn't just blow €3000 for a big tv. Any help out there? Much appreciated.
The warranty entitles you to complimentary phone support for the first 90 days of ownership.
If you bought the product in the U.S. directly from Apple (not from a reseller), you have 14 days from the date of delivery in which to exchange or return it for a refund. In other countries, the return policy may be different. If you bought from a reseller, its return policy applies.
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the strangest thing happened to my iMac regarding the capacity of the hard drive.
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I am running Maverick OS X 10.9.4 on iMac 21.5-inch, Late 2012 (2.7 Ghz Intel Core i5, RAM 16 Gb)
Any idea about what is going on?
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Macintosh HD:
Available: 19.68 GB (19,682,623,488 bytes)
Capacity: 330.13 GB (330,128,412,672 bytes)
Mount Point: /
File System: Journaled HFS+
Writable: Yes
Ignore Ownership: No
BSD Name: disk2
Volume UUID: CA529F84-5FB1-3B51-B374-000CD6226491
Logical Volume:
Revertible: No
Encrypted: No
LV UUID: AD2F1AB0-27DD-4091-8A29-54BEC4FC0280
Logical Volume Group:
Name: Macintosh HD
Size: 1.12 TB (1,120,333,979,648 bytes)
Free Space: 781.7 GB (781,698,187,264 bytes)
LVG UUID: 935158CF-7890-40C8-8BF1-B8E689FD52FC
Physical Volumes:
disk0s2:
Media Name: APPLE SSD SM128E Media
Size: 120.99 GB (120,988,852,224 bytes)
Medium Type: SSD
Protocol: SATA
Internal: Yes
Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)
Status: Online
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
PV UUID: B51EABA6-045B-4317-8B65-7C235AF4632C
disk1s2:
Media Name: APPLE HDD HTS541010A9E662 Media
Size: 999.35 GB (999,345,127,424 bytes)
Medium Type: Rotational
Protocol: SATA
Internal: Yes
Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)
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S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
PV UUID: 847E555B-7DFD-450B-AFC8-B5D98AFD9037The warranty entitles you to complimentary phone support for the first 90 days of ownership.
If you bought the product in the U.S. directly from Apple (not from a reseller), you have 14 days from the date of delivery in which to exchange or return it for a refund. In other countries, the return policy may be different. If you bought from a reseller, its return policy applies. -
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I have partitioned my 3TB FusionDrive so that I have one main partition and one test partition: 2.8 TB and 250 GB (setup: late 2012 iMac, 3TB FusionDrive). After a couple of months, I tried to merge the two partitions — complete fail.
When I tried to erase the test partition, it suddenly became unaccessible and now there's no option to delete, merge, resize, whatever; booting into Disk Utility won't solve the make any difference either.
Could anyone explain the step-by-step, stupid-proof way of merging two FusionDrive partitions into one?The warranty entitles you to complimentary phone support for the first 90 days of ownership.
If you bought the product in the U.S. directly from Apple (not from a reseller), you have 14 days from the date of delivery in which to exchange or return it for a refund. In other countries, the return policy may be different. If you bought from a reseller, its return policy applies. -
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After nearly nine years of using my G5 PPC tower I've decided it's time to move onto a new computer, since I can't upgrade the OS beyond 10.5. I am looking at the 27" iMacs and trying to decide which configuration to choose. I guess I'm trying to decide between the 2.9 GHz model and the 3.4GHz one. (I don't see any value to the 3.2GHz model, since the $200 price diferential over the 2.9 gets only modest bumps to the processor and graphics card.)
I may end up biting the bullet and getting the 3.4GHz to get the i7 processor, and possibly adding the fusion drive for the speedy boot ups. But I wonder if the 2.9GHz model with the fusion drive would be pretty comparible to the i7 3.4GGHz without the fusion drive. The $400 difference between the base 2.9 and the 3.4 could be spent on the external optical drive and RAM.
I have read a lot of speed test on macworld.com, but they don't show the 3.4GGHz model without the fusion drive. The fusion drive sounds good, overall, but may add some complexity to the system, and resulting reliability issues. Despite the shortcomings of standard hard drives, mine has managed to churn away for nearly 9 years, so the technology is fairly reliable. Apple's fusion drive hasn't been around long enough for a good assessment of its reliability.
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Before that I've now made a bootable disk and tried to repair the internal drive, but this was not possible.
I have a Time Machine backup, but excluded some temporary folders.
Is there a way to access these folders in case they aren't in a damaged area?
Maybe using "Target Disk mode"?
I've never done this before.
This Mac has no FireWire, but we have an adaptor for Thunderbolt to FireWire - could I connect an older Mac with FireWire using this adaptor for Target Disk Mode?
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Lanny wrote:
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Hi,
I've just bought a new iMac (27", i7 3.4, 3tb Fusion drive, 32GB ram...) and when im installing software (adobe CS6) the machine locks up and i have to boot up in safe mode. I run a check and i always have to re-install the system software which is a pain! Do you think the fusion-drive is faulty? I've been buying mac's for over ten years and never had anything like this happen!
Any ideas before it goes back?
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Based on the error message you are getting, its recommended you do a clean reload of your BlackBerry software.
It sounds like you may need to reload your device software.
You can follow KB11320 for the reload process but be sure to back up your BlackBerry before hand as all user data will be deleted.
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Office mac keeps asking for license key with fusion drive
I'm posting this in case anyone else is having this trouble where Office for Mac 2011 keeps asking for the license key. I have a later 2013 iMac with Fusion drive and never have been able to use office on this computer without entering the key. In talking with Microsoft they removed office and all the files and reinstalled with no help. In speaking with Apple, they said there is a known issue with Microsoft Office and the Fusion drive and Microsoft is working on a patch. Evidently the fusion drive moves the files around and to Microsoft that looks like new hardware so it prompts for the key. Realy annoying! Microsoft
I'm a certified Apple consultant and I recently hit this issue at an installation. On seven iMacs with the Fusion drive, I deleted the "Thunderbolt Bridge" interface from the Network System Preference. We then rebooted the computers, entered the product key one more time, and so far, the problem has disappeared and survives subsequent rebootings.
Obviously, if you are frequently networking two Macs using Thunderbolt, this isn't a good long-term solution (though it is easily added back). However, it does appear to work. I have no sound theory as to why it works, except that Office might be interpreting the existence of that bridge as evidence that the software was copied onto a machine instead of properly installed. This is just a wild guess, though.
I have no idea if it will work for others, but hey, the forums are for throwing out these ideas and seeing if one of them sticks for most people. So...there it is. -
Okey, i've been surfing TOO MUCH TIME for answers and fixes with the known issues with Audio Interfaces + iMac 2013 Fusion Drive.
C'mon apple, I'm not paying too much money for a lame support. I bought the iMac for audio production and what i found? That I can't use it. And I want the Fusion Drive, so I'm not gonna buy a iMac with 1 TB SSD or 1 TB HD.
So, Apple, who is gonna pay the time that I can't work with audio? How am I suposed to work until you fix this issue that's not fixed yet since MONTHS ago?Good News: I can confirm that OS X 10.9.2 fixes the issue with the Fusion Drive and MBox Mini (and possibly other USB Audio devices).
My Hardware:
27" iMac, latest version, 3.5 GHz i7
3TB Fusion Drive
8 GB RAM
Drobo 5D hooked up via Thunderbolt
2 24" LED Cinema displays, one directly connected to Thunderbolt, one chained off the Drobo's second Thunderbolt port
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Logic Pro X 10.0.6
Previous symptoms:
Audio drop outs after a few minutes in all sound related applications
Audio degradation in Logic
Both iTunes and Spotify Apps could (and often) froze machine (no mouse or trackpad or keyboard input until hard restart)
None of these issues occured when switching all audio to go through iMac's built in speakers.
Last night I installed the Mavericks 10.9.2 Combo Update (13C32) available right now only to developers, but you can find it, it's out there.
Everything works just fine now.
Stress test:
Before I went to bed I put a large Spotify playlist on shuffle and repeat, did the same for an iTunes playlist, and looped a 32 track Logic project all at once (yes, this sounded horrible!) and turned the volume down on my MBox Pro. When I woke up and turned the volume up on my MBox Mini, all was still playing through my Event 20/20 speakers. I have worked all day today in Logic and it works great.
I thought I was going to have to send my iMac back for one with just an SSD or perform the Fusion Drive split that people were talking about, but all is well.
Hopefully this update will be released soon for everyone.
Hope this helps. I personally was heartbroken for a couple days as my new machine was pretty much useless and I had already given my awesome early 2011 quad-core MacBook Pro to my brother.
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Hello. I currently have a macbook pro mid 2012 13 inch with a 256 SSD start up and a 1T regular hard drive with 16GB RAM.
Even though the 1T hard drive is in the DVD drive it sort of just acts like an external hard drive as it shows up as a separate drive in finder and I am wondering if one of you amazing people can tell me how to make a fusion drive in a way that is safe and time machinable, so that for all functional purposes I just turn on my computer and it looks like I have a 1.256T system that flows perfectly.
Also if this is achieved and I can time machine back it up; in a few years when I upgrade to say the new 2T Macbook pro ssd will there be any issues importing directly from time machine if my previous computer, the one I am using now, had or has a fusion drive.
Thank you.Oh, my solid stage 256 is where the original hard drive used to be and the 1terrabye regular hard drive is in where the dvd drive used to be. If the dvd drive is the optical drive then I should be having the correct hardware configuration.
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I talked to one of the techie guys from Simply Computing yesterday (apple authorized dealers in canada) and he said that he has this setup and it works great and when I mentioned about performance, he said that there is a slight reduction in speed and described it as, "A normal solid state is 4 times as quick and with a fusion it is 3.5 times".
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Hi All,
I have a mid-2011 iMac which I plan to install a Samsung 840 Pro SSD to use as part of a Fusion Drive setup.
Typically I backup using Carbon Copy and wil be taking a backup prior to the mod.
Once the drive has been configured...... will I need to reinstall the OSX from scratch, or is it just a matter of bringing back the Backup ??
PeteWhen you use CoreStorage to format the SSD and mechanical HD it will be a destructive format/paritioning so the new Fusion disk will look like one HD but in fact will be two under the hood. You should be able to use CC to restore your image as it will look like a single drive.
I'm not sure if that model iMac has a Fusion tool supplied by Apple or not. I think you have to use one of the many guides found online to manually configure the drives to be a single Fusion drive using diskutil at the command line. If I remember correctly, you'll need to boot with a thumb drive with 10.8.3 installation on it. Then go to the Terminal to configure the Fusion drive setup. Then you would have to find some way to run CC from a bootable thumbdrive, etc. I think you could boot the backup disk made with CC then run CC from it to clone to the new Fusion drive. That should work. Worse case scenario, you always could just re-install OS X on the Fusion drive and then use the Apple Migration Assistant to grab your data from the CC'd drive.
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