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Merging SSDs

Hi I have two SSDs installed on my older Mac Pro that is running El Capitan. One is a boot disk (250gb SSD) and the new one is a 1TB SSD. I would like to combine them to make one large storage space. How do I do that?

Posted on Feb 7, 2022 1:46 PM

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Posted on Feb 8, 2022 3:54 AM

Basically that is called RAID.

https://support.apple.com/guide/disk-utility/create-a-disk-set-dskua23150fd/mac

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