Re: Purpose of iMac solid-state drive

2016-04-27 Thread Russell Courtenay
Gotta train them kids up right! Good job! Russell Courtenay Sent from my old iMac > On Apr 27, 2016, at 11:58 AM, bobs2ndem...@gmail.com wrote: > > Thank you for your clear response, Jim. You are correct — its a 27" iMac with > fusion drive. It sounds like the operating system won't have been a

Re: Purpose of iMac solid-state drive

2016-04-27 Thread Google
Bob, It’s a good thing you have backups via Time Machine and clones. That’s because the Fusion Drive software blends the data on both the SSD and HDD so thoroughly that if one drive dies, the other can’t be used. In addition, when a new HDD is installed, all data on the SSD will be lost as Disk

Re: Purpose of iMac solid-state drive

2016-04-27 Thread bobs2ndemail
Thank you for your clear response, Jim. You are correct — its a 27" iMac with fusion drive. It sounds like the operating system won't have been affected by the crash, which is good. Data lost shouldn't be a problem either, except for possible losses in the few hours before the crash when the co

Re: Purpose of iMac solid-state drive

2016-04-26 Thread Google
> On Apr 26, 2016, at 4:28 PM, bobs2ndem...@gmail.com wrote: > > My wife's iMac mechanical hard drive crash today, and will be replaced by > Apple. What data/software does the solid-state drive hold? (I am definitely > not technology inclined. I use computers, but my understanding of how they

Purpose of iMac solid-state drive

2016-04-26 Thread 'John Carmonne' via iMac Group
> > > On Apr 26, 2016, at 4:28 PM, bobs2ndem...@gmail.com wrote: > >> My wife's iMac mechanical hard drive crash today, and will be replaced by >> Apple. What data/software does the solid-state drive hold? (I am definitely >> not technology inclined. I use computers, but my understanding of

Purpose of iMac solid-state drive

2016-04-26 Thread bobs2ndemail
My wife's iMac mechanical hard drive crash today, and will be replaced by Apple. What data/software does the solid-state drive hold? (I am definitely not technology inclined. I use computers, but my understanding of how they operate is not deep!) Bob -- You received this message because you a