It is not necessary to do the same for the striped disk because it is invisible to the BIOS booter.įrom this point you can install a fresh system on BigFuz or restore a Time Machine backup to it, as I did. This is a good time to refresh the boot blocks and the boot file and Extras folder on each of the 4 drives involved in the fusion sets. This will create a new disk (disk10 for example) with a volume called BigFuz on it. I used a command like this (for this example, the two fusion drives ended up as disk8 and disk9).ĭiskutil appleraid create stripe BigFuz JHFS+ disk8 disk9 I then used the appleraid functionality of diskutil to stripe the two fusion drives together. It worked but I had a leftover SSD.įinally I used the SSDs and HDDs as simple disks and built two fusion drives, pairing one SSD with an HDD and the second SSD with the second HDD.
I tried striping the HDDs in the Jmicron and building a fusion drive with one of the SSDs.
I tried using the Gigabyte Jmicron raid support for SSD HDD caching and was underwhelmed. I experimented with several ways to use my two SSDs and two HDDs together (happily, they were bought with someone else's money). Striping Fusion Drives Together for a Hackintosh Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide