Fusion Drive and Opencore 8.3.0

[loulou34]

Hi everyone,

I've recently installed Ventura on my hackintosh with the help of opencore 8.3.0.
I would like to add a HDD and to redo the installation using Fusion Drive.
I don't find any information about how good can OC handle Fusion Drives.
Do you know if OC 8.3 supports fusion drives ?
Many thanks

Louis

 

[Edhawk]

The question you should be asking is does macOS Ventura or Monterey support Fusion drives. Remember that Apple have moved from HFS+ to APFS in all the latest versions of macOS.

Can you create a Fusion Drive with APFS?

Or are you better served using a larger NVME drive formatted APFS. This would give you the storage space and the drive speed you would gain from using a Fusion Drive.

 

[loulou34]

Hello,
Many thanks for your response.
Yes, I m almost sure Fusion drives are compatible with APFS and with Ventura.
I thinks apple will still support fusion drives for a few years as Fusion Drive were still in use on 2017 Macs.
I will try anyway and give you an update on how it went.
Best,

Louis

 

[Edhawk]

You might want to have a read of this guide for creating an APFS Fusion Drive.

https://www.econtechnologies.com/chronosync/tn-cs-apfs-fusion-drive.html

As it will have an EFI partition on at least one of the two drives you should be able to boot the drive with OpenCore as you would with any drive.