3TB fusion on old MAC.. what is the equivalent ?

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3TB fusion on old MAC.. what is the equivalent ?

I have an iMac 2013 3TB hard drive and 16GB memory.

I want to buy a new iMac. however i dont want to reduce the overall storage on the device.

It appears on the new iMacs the storage is minimal ( ie. only up to 2TB)

Question: what options do i have to get storage ( and no.. i dont want iCloud)

thanks!

iMac 27″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Aug 18, 2024 10:02 AM

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Servant of Cats

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Aug 18, 2024 2:17 PM in response to Kotep_

External hard drive or external SSD.

Your old iMac was a 27" iMac that had room for a 3 TB desktop hard drive, and a 128 GB SSD, inside. (Your Fusion Drive is a software combination of those two drives.)

The new iMac is a 24" model that has no hard drive or hard drive bays inside. All of its storage is pure SSD storage.

You can get

External portable hard drives in sizes up to about 5 TB.
External desktop hard drives in sizes up to about 20 TB.
External SSDs in sizes up to about 4 TB. Some of these are about the size of a credit card or of a USB flash drive.

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