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Hello Everyone,
I am using my hackintosh mostly for video and photo editing and was courious about using a Fusion drive for my daily work. The scope was to build a drive with high read/write throughput and high capacity and as cheap as possible.
I have with great success managed to create a Fusion drive using 3x 250GB Samsung EVO 850SSD and 2x 2TB WD NAS Spindle disks with a total capacity of 4.7TB. Performance measured using Black Magic Disk speed utility is ~1400MB/s Read and ~970MB/s Write. This is sufficient performance for me at least .
The process:
In Graphical Disk Utility:
1. Create a stripe set of the SSD drives (Virtual Drive 1)
2. Create a stripe set of the Spindle drives (Virtual Drive 2)
In Terminal window:
3. Identify your new virtual drives - "diskutil list"
4. Create a logical volume group using the two virtual drives - "diskutil cs create lvgName device1 (/dev/disk6s0) device2 (/dev/disk7s0)"
5. Take a note of the lvgUUID from the output of the above command
4. Create a Fusion drive using the logical volume above - "diskutil cs createVolume lvgUUID type(jhfs+) name(Fusion) size(100%)"
Please note that the commands above are NOT complete as the process of creating the Fusion drive might varry depending on your hardware configuration. I have put examples in prantesis from my setup.
Also... The new Fusion drive will not be configurable in the graphical "Disk utility". If the drive is selected the program will crash. All other drives will be available for administration.
I am using my hackintosh mostly for video and photo editing and was courious about using a Fusion drive for my daily work. The scope was to build a drive with high read/write throughput and high capacity and as cheap as possible.
I have with great success managed to create a Fusion drive using 3x 250GB Samsung EVO 850SSD and 2x 2TB WD NAS Spindle disks with a total capacity of 4.7TB. Performance measured using Black Magic Disk speed utility is ~1400MB/s Read and ~970MB/s Write. This is sufficient performance for me at least .
The process:
In Graphical Disk Utility:
1. Create a stripe set of the SSD drives (Virtual Drive 1)
2. Create a stripe set of the Spindle drives (Virtual Drive 2)
In Terminal window:
3. Identify your new virtual drives - "diskutil list"
4. Create a logical volume group using the two virtual drives - "diskutil cs create lvgName device1 (/dev/disk6s0) device2 (/dev/disk7s0)"
5. Take a note of the lvgUUID from the output of the above command
4. Create a Fusion drive using the logical volume above - "diskutil cs createVolume lvgUUID type(jhfs+) name(Fusion) size(100%)"
Please note that the commands above are NOT complete as the process of creating the Fusion drive might varry depending on your hardware configuration. I have put examples in prantesis from my setup.
Also... The new Fusion drive will not be configurable in the graphical "Disk utility". If the drive is selected the program will crash. All other drives will be available for administration.