- #FRYS MAC INTERNAL HARD DRIVE FUSION 4 TB INSTALL#
- #FRYS MAC INTERNAL HARD DRIVE FUSION 4 TB PORTABLE#
Nice, this is faster than it went before when upgrading Big Sur to Monterey on the external SSD.īooting Monterey on the internal Fusion drive goes as snappy as one would expect, booting in a few minutes or less! The installation succeeded in less than 20 minutes.
#FRYS MAC INTERNAL HARD DRIVE FUSION 4 TB INSTALL#
Now ready to install Monterey on the internal Fusion drive. The installer boots to a welcome and I used the here provided Disk Utility to wipe all data from the internal Fusion drive. I connected the Monterey installer USB drive and booted the iMac holding down Alt/Option to then pick the Installer as boot drive. I unplugged all external drives and third party apparatus.
#FRYS MAC INTERNAL HARD DRIVE FUSION 4 TB PORTABLE#
I found 4 TB worth of disk space spread out over old USB drives, and backed up everything manually on these drives.Īfter completing and securing my backup I created a Monterey portable installer following one of many (easy) guides on the web on one extra external USB drive. I had however used the internal Fusion drive as a data disk, and had to backup 2,5 TB of data before I could do this. So I decided to try installing on my internal Fusion drive rather than on the external SSD. I read online that there are issues with Monterey on non-factory hardware. Monterey was installed and booting, however, every boot since took about 30 minutes. I only gave it this much time cause I didn't want to crash it during installation, at some point I didn't expect it to continue, but in the end it did. I upgraded to Monterey on the external SSD, installation went ok, but the reboot after finalizing took 3 hours (!!!) to complete. To work around this I had to hold Alt/Option every boot to load the boot manager and pick the boot drive manually, because usually it would be live just half a second too late for the normal boot sequence. The only downside was that during booting, the SSD was still powering on and therefor could not be found at boot. This was working very smooth, the external SSD was notably faster than the internal Fusion drive.
I had Big Sur installed on and booting from the external SSD drive, attached through Thunderbolt 3. I read a lot of info online and found a promising cost-efficient solution in booting from an external SSD. It was suffering short halts and made working super annoying. I upgraded to Big Sur on the Fusion drive but the system became stuttery. The iMac came with macOS (Catalina?) pre-installed on the Fusion drive. Memory 48 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 Įxternal hard disk SanDisk Extreme SSD 1TB I'll be complete so this information can possibly help others.