Slow boot - Slow hard drive on iMac
iMac is playing up. I noticed when playing videos it would stop and start, beachballing when opening files especially large ones like videos and taking a while to open.
Few days ago I reset the PRAM, NVRAM for a previous issue I was having with the keyboard - which did not fix it. I also updated to macOS 12.2. I cleared the storage so there’s 200GB left (out of 3TB).
I also did an etre check previously and there were no major issues except the the SSD was slow.
Now with this new issue, I restarted but it takes over an hour and it still hasn’t booted up. I managed to capture this as it was booting:
I have a feeling the Fusion Drive has failed or is failing.
iMac 27″ 5K, 12.2