Question to Fusion Drive iMacs users

I've got the new Retina iMac for over 3 wseks and I have some issues with it. Can somebody with any iMac with Fusion Drive send me here on forum a photo of Boot Manager (hold left alt key (or option key) during startup of your mac) and a photo of Disk Uttility.
Thanks!,
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could be that I'm wrong
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4634055?tstart=0

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Fusion drive Imac

Hello all,
A couple of days ago my 27' Imac wouldn't start up normaly, it was stuck at the loading bar. Tried to turn it on couple of times, but nothing happend. So after this, I did a reinstall by pressing cmd R when turning the Imac on.
But now the problem, I have a 1TB Fusion drive, but it only recognize the 128GB SSD and not the HDD. So, what to do now? Is the HDD broken?
I would appreciate if anyone has a comment how to fix this or what to do, I hope it is not to bad.

It appears either the HDD portion of the Fusion Drive or connectivity to it has died.
Is the iMac still under warranty? If so take it back to Apple.
The direction to change this disk drive are at https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iMac+Intel+27-Inch+EMC+2309+and+2374+Hard+Drive+Rep lacement/1634

A few questions from a new iMac user!

So far I am loving this computer! However there are a few things that I can not figure out how to do and really dont have time to go to the store for a class at the moment. So hopefully you will be able to help me out.
1. We have iWorks installed and I am trying to make a simple calendar to hand out to my students with information about due dates and such. Previously I was able to do this on Word but I can not figure out how to do this here!
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1. We have iWorks installed and I am trying to make a simple calendar to hand out to my students with information about due dates and such. Previously I was able to do this on Word but I can not figure out how to do this here!
Pages, presuming you're referring to Apple's iWork suite, doesn't have a template for a calendar included. There are some suggestions in this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6949516
You might also consider using iCal. You could set up a calendar just for student dates and then print that calendar only.
3. With this new mouse how do I get it so that there is a right click?
You'll need to go into the Mouse system preferences and define the right-click action. The default is for the "left-click" and "right-click" both to be a standard click.
Hope this helps.

We are experiencing frequent crashes using Premeire with an fusion drive iMac

Any thoughts

Try this,
1. In the Finder, Go -> Go to Folder and type '/library' (without the quotes).
2. Go to Application Support-> Adobe-> Common-> Plugins-> 7.0-> MediaCore and remove all the folders from there temporarily and then try to work in Premiere Pro.
In case it works fine, you will know that the issue is with Red Giant plugins only.
Regards
Sarthak

Windows 8.1 on 3TB Fusion drive

Hello,
i want to install Windows 8.1 on 3TB Fusion drive iMac 27 Late 2013. I intended once but have only problems. I have a 64 bit version of Windows 8.1 on a USB 2.0 Stick and run Bootcamp. At the weekend I want to intend one more time, after a crash of the Fusion Drive and reinstall of Yosemite, but my question is if it will work on my system? I have found some comments on the web that its very difficult to install Windows 8.1 on a 3TB Fusion Drive.
You have some suggestions I have to do?
This time I will reconnect all USB devices and put only the USB Flash direct into the Mac.

Hello,
i want to install Windows 8.1 on 3TB Fusion drive iMac 27 Late 2013. I intended once but have only problems. I have a 64 bit version of Windows 8.1 on a USB 2.0 Stick and run Bootcamp. At the weekend I want to intend one more time, after a crash of the Fusion Drive and reinstall of Yosemite, but my question is if it will work on my system? I have found some comments on the web that its very difficult to install Windows 8.1 on a 3TB Fusion Drive.
You have some suggestions I have to do?
This time I will reconnect all USB devices and put only the USB Flash direct into the Mac.

Any problems with apple fusion drives?

I am in the process of ordering new iMacs with fusion drives. someone mentioned that could cause problems with Adobe Photoshop.

This might help, but that was 2012
Mac Fusion Drive: pro users beware | ZDNet
2014:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1711254
Gene

Upgrade my fusion drive

I have an iMac with a 1Tb Fusion drive. Running out of space quickly, am I able to upgrade this to a 3Tb Fusion drive?
Thanks
Brad

With Apple, the path would be better if the store or technical experts were keen on the idea, as there is a profit to be made, and your computer would be in the hands of someone who would not mess up your warranty; however the matter of their Apple Fusion upgrade on a current or fairly new iMac 27" would bring some questions about further AppleCare coverage, to the extent of the optional care plan if you purchased one.
With a 1TB fusion, as stock, that is about 256GB of SSD running with nearly 750+GB HDD. I'd never get such a small Apple Fusion drive iMac or portable if a larger one was offered at retail or BTO online Apple Store.
You may be able to find an actual 'Specialist' that is an authorized third party reseller of new, repairer of warranteed AppleCare covered products, and has technicians on-staff that can do the correct processes. This kind of service provider would be able to swap the drive; maybe if asked, they could get a 3TB Apple Fusion. They may or may not help in a different upgrade if third-party parts are involved, depending on their store policies.
An issue may exist if outside parts are used and then if or when those parts are suspected in a later failure, they likely won't want to be responsible. However a retail purchase from places that do certified and warranteed work, have some manufacturer or service warranty, specifics are available at each business location. One of the upgrades to consider in addition to a larger storage capacity and TimeMachine backup, would be to get more RAM. That machine can take quite a bit, maybe up to 32GB when all slots are populated with matching RAM chips.
The OWC external devices, with extra ports for flexible use across multiple kinds of devices, is a fair idea; and a better honest backup where a bootable clone of the computer's installed system could reside on a partition, with the rest as storage or used as shared space for the current OS X or TimeMachine. These are candidates for SSD upgrade, as some have two HDDs installed in stock configuration. Quick enough for clones, too.
I was given an older as-new Mercury in box, with only USB2.0 ports and have not used it; the giver thought it had FireWire400/800 as my older Macs do not boot with USB2.0, and FW is really faster most of the time than USB3.0 when booting a system from an external self-powered hard disk drive. Some of those Mercury drives sport two HDDs inside, the one I have does. Or so the packing materials suggest. Never turned it on.
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Hopefully you can get what you need & have it work accordingly.
Good luck & happy computing!

Cannot access mac fusion drive in bootcamp windows 7

My Fusion drive imac cannot access the Mac fusion drive in bootcamp windows 7. even I installed the bootcamp 4.1on windows 7. It is trouble as I cannot get my file in the mac drive in windows.
I don't have this problem in my old imac 2008.

See iMac (27-inch, Late 2012): Boot Camp alert with 3TB hard drive

What order should I migrate files to new fusion drive in order to not clog it up with music and photos's?

My new 27" 1Tb fusion drive iMac has arrived and I am planning on setting it up over the next couple of days. I chose not to migrate my data from my old Time Machine backup as I want to start afresh so before selling my old MacBook I copied all the data I wanted to transfer onto an external drive into organised folders. I now want to import theses file to the new imac. I have a 25Gig iPhoto library, a 74Gig music folder, plus around 120Gig of video, documents, Logic Pro and Garage band files that I want to keep on the internal drive. I also have around 600Gig of iMovie files that I will keep on external scratch drives which don't need to go on the internal drive. I am not going to use migration assistant as that all went wrong last time, I will just drag the folders from the external drive on to the imac's internal drive.
Is there an order that I should import all of this when migrating to the new Fusion Drive so as not to clog up the SSD part with files that don't need to be accessed often or speedily, i.e. photos and iTunes media files? I know that the fusion software somehow sorts it all out in the background but I want to know that the type of files that will most benefit from SSD speed will live on that part of the drive.
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Contact Apple's Express Lane and ask them, It's their new technology and they're responsible for providing the salient details.

What should I see in Storage Info about this mac if i have fusion drive

I have a 21" Customized Fusion Drive Imac. The start up times have been slow ( over a minute each time ) and I am starting to doubt I have Fusion installed. My sister has a standard new 21" Imac and her system report reads identical to mine.
Should Fusion show up as anything different in the Storage section when you click 'about this mac'?
My storage shows identical to my sister who does not have Fusion Drive. We both have a 1TB Sata disk icon.

I also have 21.5"
it looks like this ( I think ) :

5k iMac i7 3 tera fusion 4 gig video fusion drive won't reformat help

MMy bto 5k shipped from China sunday night and arrived in Maine this morning.... Amazing when you think about it for a bto
iinstallation and set up we're going fine and I started up boot camp assistant to crate a temp boot camp while I wait for my thunder bay 4 box to take the drives for my old Mac pro when boot camp will have a1 tera SSD all to itself....
so carved off a 700 gig boot camp partition which the assistant formatted fat I then plugged is the lighting to FW adapter in a LaCie 2 tera fw 800 drive to act as a bridge to my LaCie DVD burner which uses the old fw400 cables and inserted my new shrink wrap win 8.1 retail 64 DVDs and up comes the win 8 install in very tiny type in a tiny window which got a bit of a laugh out of me.
And I go through it to the point of selecting that boot camp partition and then said it could not use a fat partition and I should reformat it from the win 8.1 installer which I did and then it said it could not use and unknown partition so I said great and booted back to 10-10 and the boot camp tool to put things back and it said it could not I then went to disk tools and it also said the 3tera fusion could not be either reformatted or put back to a single partition I was on with tech support where I went up through 4 levels of support due to the 5k bto which most had no knowledge of. We tried the optioncommand r to get to DT and the same problem as did going to reinstall from the net which after a 30 min down load could not reformat either it is now kicked to Cupertino with a call back tomorrow
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and any help here will be great fully received
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27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display
$3,349.00
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4.0GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 4.4GHz
16GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x8GB
3TB Fusion Drive
AMD Radeon R9 M295X 4GB GDDR5
Apple Magic Mouse
Apple Wireless Keyboard (English) & User's Guide
Accessory Kit

Try booting into Internet recovery mode, ⌘⌥R, launch Disk Utility to erase the HD. If successful, reinstall the OS. If not, then return it (14 days with no questions asked) and get another machine. Apple sells it and they should know how to fix it.
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Disabling Fusion Drive and Installing Windows on SSD of Late 2012 iMac

Hi, everyone. After a two-year wait, I'm ready to buy my first iMac (was waiting for USB 3.0). Before I get into my questions, I'll give you an overview of where I'm coming from so we can keep the discussion focused.
My Usage
I'm buying an Apple computer because it is the best-looking, quietist, and most powerful all-in-one computer I can find right now, but Windows is still my preferred operating system. I've used OS X before – it looks great and I'm sure it works great for a large number of people, but it's not for me. Windows works well and efficiently for me and I have thousands of dollars of design software for Windows. I'm not interested in a virtualization solution because of my performance needs. However, I do want to keep the OS X installation, if possible, for website testing and to play around with to learn the operating system better.
What I Want
I was attempting to buy the Late 2012 iMac last weekend, but it appears the BootCamp specifications and the Fusion Drive are currently limiting my usage needs. I'm configuring the top model iMac with the i7-3770 processor, 24GB RAM (8 default + 16 from Crucial), GTX 680MX, and the 3TB Fusion Drive. I don't actually want to use the Fusion Drive, though. I want Windows 7 64-bit and OS X 10.8 installed on the 128GB SSD and to use the 3TB hard drive as storage for my music, videos, photos, and documents.
My Questions
1. I've found a bunch of posts regarding installing Windows on the Fusion Drive, but they all seem to be about putting Windows on the slower 3TB hard drive portion and/or about trying to keep the Fusion setup after installing Windows. Does anyone have a walk-through for a new Mac user on how to break the Fusion Drive configuration and install Windows 7 and preferably OS X on just the SSD?
2. I've seen a bunch of posts debating about whether Windows can be installed natively using EFI to bypass the BootCamp limitations. Is this possible? The 21.5" version is running EFI version 2.0, so I can only assume the 27" would too, but it's not been added on the Apple website yet (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1237). From what I understand, Windows requires at least version 2.0 to run in EFI mode. Also, if I am able to get this method to work, will I still be able to install the Windows drivers from the OS X installation USB (or do they even come with USB drives anymore?)?
3. If I have to use BootCamp, I assume I will have to split the 3TB drive into 1TB and 2TB partitions for BootCamp to see it (so Windows can see it). So I'd have Windows 7 and OS X on the SSD, and two storage partitions on the 3TB HDD that would show up as two drives for my files that both operating systems could access. Is this assumption correct?
4. I've seen posts about OS X automatically trying to rebuild the Fusion Drive. Let's say I'm able to get Windows installed on the SSD. Will OS X, or future updates to it, ruin my Windows installation? I would hate to do all this work and then have an Apple update corrupt everything.
I know this is a long post, but I don't want to spend over $3,000 until I can be sure I can make it work for me. Thanks to anyone who can help!
iMac, Windows 7

First, an advice: Boot Camp isn't compatible with 3 TB hard disks and Fusion Drive. For 3 TB hard disks, there's a workaround, but it doesn't work on a 3 TB Fusion Drive, so you won't be able to install Windows until Apple fixes this, so my advice is to wait until Apple launches OS X 10.8.3 or buy the iMac with a 1 or 2 TB hard disk and an external disk.
1. The SSD is used automatically by OS X to store the applications and data you most use, but Windows can't use it, and there's no workaround for this.
2. You can try to install Windows 8 in EFI mode, but I don't guarantee that it works. I tried it on my iMac and I started getting BSODs after some startups. Also, Macs don't use UEFI 2.0 (Macs use EFI 1.x), so you can't use Windows 8 advanced features such as Secure Boot. For Windows 7, you can't install it in EFI mode (it requires UEFI 2.0 or later)
3. Fusion Drive only allows you to have two volumes, and with Boot Camp, you can only have two volumes on your computer: one for OS X and the other one for Windows. That's because Boot Camp emulates a BIOS to make Windows run (although it isn't neccesary in Windows 8, if Apple would want).
4. First, you can't install Windows on the SSD. Then, OS X shouldn't ruin Windows because each operating system have got its space

HT5446 is my iMac 21.5intel, fusion drive compatable

.Thank you in advance just wondering if my Imac can have fusion drive, seen a youtube vid with fusion drive but it was 27 inch, so I am not sure and on the Apple store didnt notice it as an up grade for the 21.5 inch, because of size maybe motherboard another size unless I over looked it, Why do I want it no clue always used a pc I bought this Imac cause it looked really nice and talked to people they love Apple products, also figured never see used macs for sale like dells left and right, so I figured they must last forever. but back to the fusion drive just like the speed, I also like it to do photoshop, final cut,Imovie. can someone tell if I need to run a compatability test on it from apple and a link to it, or looking through the "about this Mac"
Thank You
Ed

From what is written in the Apple Store page for iMac 21.5 and 27" models, the 21.5 can be equipped with a 1TB Fusion drive, or 256GB flash, or 512GB flash, as options. There are more BTO options for the 27" model.
Not sure what an Apple Store would charge you to upgrade a new iMac to one of those, but you could call ahead and set an appointment with a product specialist, a Genius, to discuss the matter. If they can do it, then you'd probably arrange to take the computer in so someone could do the job and not interfer with the AppleCare plan coverage. Authorized persons should be the only ones to open up and upgrade; however the BTO models in the 21.5" would be the normal path to get that upgrade. Just like RAM, there is no user access to upgrade. (Built-to-Order ships from an Apple Store online.)
So that'd be my suggestion, ask them directly at an official Apple Store or see if Apple Support online http://www.apple.com/support/contact/ can answer the question for you, to see if the product can be upgraded by an Apple tech in a store near you.
Good luck & happy computing!

Should I get standard hard drive or fusion drive on a new 21.5" iMac?

I'm thinking about getting a new 21.5" iMac. How do I decide whether to get the standard hard drive (5400 rpm) or the Fusion Drive? Besides Web surfing and email, I would be using it to play flash games, listen to Internet radio, and stream movies occasionally on Netflix.

@TmanW:
Technically you cannot control where data goes on the Fusion drive 100% of the time as in the case of a two drive setup (SSD + HDD), but you can tilt where the data goes by watching disk usage and also partioning. My understanding how the Fusion drive works from MacPerformanceGuide.com (where they tested the Fusion on a late 2012 27" iMac) is that as long as you do not have more the 112GB filled on the Fusion, the drive won't kick data to the HDD when peforming tasks that use more than the 4GB buffer. I interpret this to mean as long as I keep the capacity below this 112GB threshold, I am more likely to get SSD performance. And to keep things under this threshold, one could just use the Fusion drive for system and apps only and perhaps targeted file usage (working Photoshop files that would be transferred back to non-SSD storage afterwards).
MPG also tested the Fusion drive with a partition method that biases the first partition to be 2/3 SSD and in this scenario a user can effectively (though once again not 100%) target SSD usage most of the time.
Once I get my new iMac, prior to cloning my existing system on to the Fusion drive, I will see firsthand if these tests are true to form with their results.

New iMac -Advisability of Fusion Drive

Purchasing new iMac.
Does anyone have view on the merits of Fusion Drive as opposed to upgrading to 2.9ghz processor. Or is that not the right question?

Apple’s Fusion Drive explained:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/11/achieving-fusion-with-a-service-training-do c-ars-tears-open-apples-fusion-drive/
Review and comparisons between the 21.5” and 27” new iMacs:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/12/harder-better-faster-stronger-a-review-of-t he-27-imac/
MacWorld review of 27” iMacs with different hard drives:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/mac/news/?newsid=3420278&olo=email

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