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Hi folks,
I have something of importance I want discuss with you all, and it is that I've been told by someone that the version or build of Mountain Lion - the ones we buy from the App Store are DIFFERENT to the versions received by those who ordered their Fusion. In addition, the Fusion drive version of ML DOES NOT allow the user to install ML onto a separate drive!
Here is the message. When discussing the performance of a Hackintosh vs Mac FD drive, someone with a real Fusion Drive system recently wrote: 'You need to be aware of the build number of 10.8.2 Some of the new Mac Minis and MBP's that are Fusion capable have a different build (12C2034) vs the version 12C60 that is in most other models and at the App Store. The Fusion version (12C2034) would not allow my mini to have seperated drives, it appeared to work normally but it didn't allow projects from iMovie to save (I didn't test it futher than that) and Recovery Disk Utility saw the drives as having an error although Applications > Utility > Disk Utility saw no errors.'
Now I have been comparing speeds from my Hackintosh Fusion Drive and against a real Mac Fusion Drive, and I would say the performance seems to be 'half' what I would have expected from a system of this spec. I'm getting around 180-200Mb/s on reads and writes with my system, while on a real Mac Fusion most are getting 300Mb/s on reads and 400-450Mb/s on writes. Is it possible the Fusion Drive performance of a Hackintosh is throttled due to the build version? I really don't know...but it's worth investigating.
Aside from this, I have two other issues that need addressing. First is that, I've discovered, while my Areca 1882X card works in the Z77X-UP5-TH, my Areca RAID tower (from an old Mac Pro setup) does not respond to it. And the same goes when I try to connect a test Areca Thunderbolt to my Gigabyte system's TB ports - it doesn't work either. I've tried swapping out cables to see if it was that, and it didn't work. I can connect other TB drive like my TB SSD to it, but it doesn't see the Areca TB drive. So I am stumped at the moment at what to do…
I have something of importance I want discuss with you all, and it is that I've been told by someone that the version or build of Mountain Lion - the ones we buy from the App Store are DIFFERENT to the versions received by those who ordered their Fusion. In addition, the Fusion drive version of ML DOES NOT allow the user to install ML onto a separate drive!
Here is the message. When discussing the performance of a Hackintosh vs Mac FD drive, someone with a real Fusion Drive system recently wrote: 'You need to be aware of the build number of 10.8.2 Some of the new Mac Minis and MBP's that are Fusion capable have a different build (12C2034) vs the version 12C60 that is in most other models and at the App Store. The Fusion version (12C2034) would not allow my mini to have seperated drives, it appeared to work normally but it didn't allow projects from iMovie to save (I didn't test it futher than that) and Recovery Disk Utility saw the drives as having an error although Applications > Utility > Disk Utility saw no errors.'
Now I have been comparing speeds from my Hackintosh Fusion Drive and against a real Mac Fusion Drive, and I would say the performance seems to be 'half' what I would have expected from a system of this spec. I'm getting around 180-200Mb/s on reads and writes with my system, while on a real Mac Fusion most are getting 300Mb/s on reads and 400-450Mb/s on writes. Is it possible the Fusion Drive performance of a Hackintosh is throttled due to the build version? I really don't know...but it's worth investigating.
Aside from this, I have two other issues that need addressing. First is that, I've discovered, while my Areca 1882X card works in the Z77X-UP5-TH, my Areca RAID tower (from an old Mac Pro setup) does not respond to it. And the same goes when I try to connect a test Areca Thunderbolt to my Gigabyte system's TB ports - it doesn't work either. I've tried swapping out cables to see if it was that, and it didn't work. I can connect other TB drive like my TB SSD to it, but it doesn't see the Areca TB drive. So I am stumped at the moment at what to do…