Your system offers two SATA interfaces! Running at SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) you can see the two ribbon cable connections mounted on the logic board here just popping off the bottom cover.
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If you don’t have both connections then you’ll need to add the second SATA cable connection [guide|11713] and the second drive.
A Fusion Drive’ed system will have both cables present, Apple didn’t sell to many 2012 models with Fusion Drives as there was little benefit given the slower 6.0 Gb/s I/O speed. The 2014 model changed that introducing the custom Apple blade SSD.
Today the cost of a SSD is so much less than at that time point getting a 512 GB or even a 1TB SATA SSD is not that big a stretch for most people today so the whole idea of a Fusion Drive is mostly dead as a single SSD or even a dual independent SSD & HDD or dual SSD drive’ed system makes better sense.
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As an example my own 2012 mini has two 2TB SSD’s and I use it as a medial server for my music and videos.
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As an example my own 2012 mini has two 2TB SSD’s and I use it as a media server for my music and videos.
Your system offers two SATA interfaces! Running at SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) you can see the two ribbon cable connections mounted on the logic board here just popping off the bottom cover.
[image|2450654]
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If you don’t have both connections then you’ll need to add the second SATA cable connection {[guide|11713]].
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If you don’t have both connections then you’ll need to add the second SATA cable connection [guide|11713] and the second drive.
A Fusion Drive’ed system will have both cables present, Apple didn’t sell to many 2012 models with Fusion Drives as there was little benefit given the slower 6.0 Gb/s I/O speed. The 2014 model changed that introducing the custom Apple blade SSD.
Today the cost of a SSD is so much less than at that time point getting a 512 GB or even a 1TB SATA SSD is not that big a stretch for most people today so the whole idea of a Fusion Drive is mostly dead as a single SSD or even a dual independent SSD & HDD or dual SSD drive’ed system makes better sense.
As an example my own 2012 mini has two 2TB SSD’s and I use it as a medial server for my music and videos.
Your system offers two SATA interfaces! Running at SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) you can see the two ribbon cable connections mounted on the logic board here
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Your system offers two SATA interfaces! Running at SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) you can see the two ribbon cable connections mounted on the logic board here just popping off the bottom cover.
[image|2450654]
If you don’t have both connections then you’ll need to add the second SATA cable connection {[guide|11713]].
A Fusion Drive’ed system will have both cables present, Apple didn’t sell to many 2012 models with Fusion Drives as there was little benefit given the slower 6.0 Gb/s I/O speed. The 2014 model changed that introducing the custom Apple blade SSD.
Today the cost of a SSD is so much less than at that time point getting a 512 GB or even a 1TB SATA SSD is not that big a stretch for most people today so the whole idea of a Fusion Drive is mostly dead as a single SSD or even a dual independent SSD & HDD or dual SSD drive’ed system makes better sense.
As an example my own 2012 mini has two 2TB SSD’s and I use it as a medial server for my music and videos.
Your system offers two SATA interfaces! Running at SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) you can see the two ribbon cable connections mounted on the logic board here
[image|2450654]
If you don’t have both connections then you’ll need to add the second SATA cable connection {[guide|11713]].
A Fusion Drive’ed system will have both cables present, Apple didn’t sell to many 2012 models with Fusion Drives as there was little benefit given the slower 6.0 Gb/s I/O speed. The 2014 model changed that introducing the custom Apple blade SSD.
Today the cost of a SSD is so much less than at that time point getting a 512 GB or even a 1TB SATA SSD is not that big a stretch for most people today so the whole idea of a Fusion Drive is mostly dead as a single SSD or even a dual independent SSD & HDD or dual SSD drive’ed system makes better sense.
As an example my own 2012 mini has two 2TB SSD’s and I use it as a medial server for my music and videos.