Fusion Drive repair in Disk Utility for El Capitan

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Fusion Drive repair in Disk Utility for El Capitan

Fusion Drive repair missing in El Capitan. This function must be included for all Macs equipped with a fusion drive. This is not optional and needs to be included in Disk Utility which as of today in El Capitan the feature is no longer available. Apple must bring this functionality back, we can't rely on older installers to run the Disk Utility for this function.

Two other functions that were removed should also be brought back. Disc burning and Raid. Apple may not think people use these functions but many of us still do and removing functionality when it was already there is dumb. Simple is fine to a point but please don't replace simple for functionality.

Posted on Oct 30, 2015 10:17 AM

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JimmyCMPIT

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Oct 30, 2015 10:25 AM in response to b9robot

As of now Soft Raid is a viable El Capitan RAID solution.

http://www.softraid.com/

however why Apple removed perfectly functioning part of previous OS's and a staple of video editing professionals who have long claimed Apple was the platform of choice for their needs - it's idiotic.

you can add your voice here, but of late it appears Apple is not interested in offering tools for professionals, only removing them.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

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cdavmd

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Nov 28, 2015 2:39 PM in response to b9robot

I ran into this same issue....utter disaster....I had two drives and could not figure how to fuse them. My iMac is new with preloaded El Capitan and trying to boot from a Yosemite boot drive would not work.

I found this article and it allowed me to re-create the fusion drive. I hope I did this right but thus far it seems to have worked.

http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-make-a-custom-corestorage-drive-in-os-x/

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Answer 3

Jan 18, 2016 5:21 AM in response to b9robot

b9robot wrote:

Fusion Drive repair missing in El Capitan. This function must be included for all Macs equipped with a fusion drive. This is not optional and needs to be included in Disk Utility which as of today in El Capitan the feature is no longer available. Apple must bring this functionality back, we can't rely on older installers to run the Disk Utility for this function.

It seems you were affected by this problem. How did you repair/configure a Fusion Drive?

I need instructions in my thread. Thanks.

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