To start with your systems Fusion Drive is made up of two drives physically! A standard SATA HDD and a small sized PCIe/NVMe blade SSD which is setup as a cache drive to the HDD.
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So you have all of the needed connections, the only issue is what you want for performance. Replacing the small blade SSD with a larger drive is the best direction, then setting it up as your boot drive installing the macOS onto it. Then leave your HDD as your data drive. Thats what I would do. following this guide [guide|32646] and using the [product|IF123-133-3] either the 480 GB or the 1TB drives.
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So you have all of the needed connections, the only issue is what you want for performance. Replacing the small blade SSD with a larger drive is the best direction, then setting it up as your boot drive installing the macOS onto it. Then leave your HDD as your data drive. Thats what I would do following this guide [guide|32646] and using the [product|IF123-133-3] either the 480 GB or the 1TB drives.
Its also the easiest upgrade possible! Less than 15mins done!
Two start with your systems Fusion Drive is made up of two drives physically! A standard SATA HDD and a small sized PCIe/NVMe blade SSD which is setup as a cache drive to the HDD.
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To start with your systems Fusion Drive is made up of two drives physically! A standard SATA HDD and a small sized PCIe/NVMe blade SSD which is setup as a cache drive to the HDD.
So you have all of the needed connections, the only issue is what you want for performance. Replacing the small blade SSD with a larger drive is the best direction, then setting it up as your boot drive installing the macOS onto it. Then leave your HDD as your data drive. Thats what I would do. following this guide [guide|32646] and using the [product|IF123-133-3] either the 480 GB or the 1TB drives.
Its also the easiest upgrade possible! Less than 15mins done!
Two start with your systems Fusion Drive is made up of two drives physically! A standard SATA HDD and a small sized PCIe/NVMe blade SSD which is setup as a cache drive to the HDD.
So you have all of the needed connections, the only issue is what you want for performance. Replacing the small blade SSD with a larger drive is the best direction, then setting it up as your boot drive installing the macOS onto it. Then leave your HDD as your data drive. Thats what I would do. following this guide [guide|32646] and using the [product|IF123-133-3] either the 480 GB or the 1TB drives.
Its also the easiest upgrade possible! Less than 15mins done!
The needed tools are listed in the guide.