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Fusion drive split?

Hello,


I just factory reset my imac. I first deleted 2 pations HD and Hd data in disk utility. Then I reinstalled macOS Catalina. I got a choice when installing, what disk do you want to install on, HD or HD data? I chose HD data. Now when I look at storage I see two similar disks, exact same size but with different names. Is this a split fusion drive?

Posted on Jan 9, 2020 10:39 AM

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Posted on Jan 9, 2020 6:35 PM

Yep. That's APFS partitioning doing its magic. All is well, my friend. 👍🏽


Macintosh HD is a read-only system data partition. It's used exclusively by the OS.

Macintosh HD - data is the partition where your user account and data reside. All the user accounts and their associated personal data live on this drive.


It's all good.

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Jan 9, 2020 6:35 PM in response to BDAqua

Yep. That's APFS partitioning doing its magic. All is well, my friend. 👍🏽


Macintosh HD is a read-only system data partition. It's used exclusively by the OS.

Macintosh HD - data is the partition where your user account and data reside. All the user accounts and their associated personal data live on this drive.


It's all good.

Fusion drive split?

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