Rebuild fusion drive.

I foolishly replaced the HDD portion of fusion drive with a 2TB SSI. This is in a 2017 iMac retina. I did it because I had so much luck by install in a SSC into my 2011 MacBook Pro. It is much faster than the iMac (to me that means not seeing the spinning wheel). When I did the install of the SSC on the iMac, I didn’t have an understanding of what a fusion drive was, I now do. I tried to run boot camp assistant and found that it couldn’t be done. I have been reading community posts and think I have the solution to my situation with this discussion.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251294439?answerId=252495771022#252495771022

I would like to know if anyone else has rebuilt the fusion drive using two SSDsBoot. The one that was part of the original fusion drive and the one that I replaced the HDD with? And if that works OK. I’m happy with the way the iMac is running on the single SSD but I really would like to get my boot camp partition back.

I was using Parallels and liked being able to use both windows and Mac OS without restarting all the time.

iMac Line (2012 and Later)

Posted on Nov 22, 2020 7:29 PM

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Nov 23, 2020 7:52 AM in response to Loner T

Thanks for responding.


Yes, I use Time Machine and I ejected the disk immediately before changing the HDD for a SSD.


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Eds-iMac:~ eduardoshoaff$ diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

  #:            TYPE NAME          SIZE    IDENTIFIER

  0:   GUID_partition_scheme            *28.0 GB  disk0

  1:            EFI EFI           314.6 MB  disk0s1

  2:         Apple_APFS             27.7 GB  disk0s2


/dev/disk1 (internal, physical):

  #:            TYPE NAME          SIZE    IDENTIFIER

  0:   GUID_partition_scheme            *2.0 TB   disk1

  1:            EFI EFI           209.7 MB  disk1s1

  2:         Apple_APFS Container disk2     2.0 TB   disk1s2


/dev/disk2 (synthesized):

  #:            TYPE NAME          SIZE    IDENTIFIER

  0:   APFS Container Scheme -           +2.0 TB   disk2

                 Physical Store disk1s2

  1:        APFS Volume Macintosh HD      11.2 GB  disk2s1

  2:        APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data   679.5 GB  disk2s2

  3:        APFS Volume Preboot         81.6 MB  disk2s3

  4:        APFS Volume Recovery        529.0 MB  disk2s4

  5:        APFS Volume VM           2.1 GB   disk2s5


/dev/disk3 (disk image):

  #:            TYPE NAME          SIZE    IDENTIFIER

  0:   GUID_partition_scheme            +453.4 MB  disk3

  1:         Apple_HFS Parallels Desktop 16  453.4 MB  disk3s1


Eds-iMac:~ eduardoshoaff$ 





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