The following is a Fusion Drive …it has a small 128GB SSD and a 1TB or bigger HDD Or Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility
Or About This Mac > System Report > Storage What you are looking out for is if any of the drives are referred to as “HDD” or “Fusion Drives” Q – How can I tell what kind of drive my iMac Has?ĭepending on the Mac OS, there are a few ways. It is not the SSD component that is prone to failure but the HDD component is. Fusion drives incorporate a small SSD in combination with a much larger (1TB, 2TB, 3TB) HDD (Hard-Disk-Drives).
Q – But aren’t Fusion drives the same as SSD’s?Ī – Yes and No. If you have a 2019 model iMac or earlier with a “Fusion Drive” or “Hard-Disk-Drive”, we recommend replacing with an SSD ASAP as the drive could fail at any minute.Īpple have been shipping iMacs with SSD (Solid-State-Drives) since 2020 due to the high failure rates of HDD (Hard-Disk-Drives) and Fusion drives in pre-2020 iMacs which were only 1 or 2 years old (and covered by AppleCare)
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