Remove the fusion blade SSD necessary w/SATA SSD upgrade?
crwdns2934249:0crwdne2934249:0:
I have a late 2015 27" retina iMac with the 1tb Fusion drive... including the tiny SSD on the motherboard. I was going to replace the blade SSD, but read about all the issues with the hardware firmware causing sleep-wake issues on this vintage, and decided that was not a good idea. (OWC won't even list their blade drives as compatible with Late 2015s for this reason.) So I'm going to just replace the spinning drive with a Crucial 2TB SATA SSD. I've read people stating on this forum that it's best to pull the old blade drive from the motherboard and discard it in a scenario like this. Why? Can't I just leave the thing unformatted and call it a day? Seems like a bunch of nonsense extra work unless there's an actual technical reason to do this. Any enlightenment would be helpful. Thanks
Remove the fusion blade SSD necessary w/SATA SSD upgrade?
crwdns2934249:0crwdne2934249:0:
I have a late 2015 27" retina iMac with the 1tb Fusion drive... including the tiny SSD on the motherboard. I was going to replace the blade SSD, but read about all the issues with the hardware firmware causing sleep-wake issues on this vintage, and decided that was not a good idea. (OWC won't even list their blade drives as compatible with Late 2015s for this reason.) So I'm going to just replace the spinning drive with a Crucial 2TB SATA SSD. I've read people stating on this forum that it's best to pull the old blade drive from the motherboard and discard it in a scenario like this. Why? Can't I just leave the thing unformatted and call it a day? Seems like a bunch of nonsense extra work unless there's an actual technical reason to do this. Any enlightenment would be helpful. Thanks