"Fusion Drive" (comprised of a flash SSD Drive & HDD) Apple $500 FIX
My 2017 iMac Fusion Drive is composed of flash SSD, mounted to logic board called a "Blade Drive", working in conjunction with a spinning 2 TB slower HD drive.
Apple says both are bad. I don't want to spend $500 repair for 7 yr old machine. It looks like from YouTube vids I can change out the HDD with a much cheaper SSD & get faster speed
My question - Can I deactivate the blade drive by software/commands vs taking the unit apart and pulling the blade SSD? Does either way work?
And if I have to pull it, then I might as well swap it out with a larger capacity blade SDD drive. But that leads to more work, and maybe software problems trying to "fuse" the blade SSD with a larger SSD (vs HDD) which was never the original intent by Apple.
I would rather just replace the HDD with a 2TB SSD, and don't physically "deal with" / "fool with" the existing blade SSD drive, and move on.
What is the best way to accomplish this?
Ist dies eine gute Frage?