A Fusion Drive is a dual drive setup leveraging the small blade SSD as a cache drive so within the OS it is used to speed up access to repetitive reads of the active data blocks. If the given file is altered then the updated file is written back to the HDD.
So… Here you will break that Fusion Drive pairing so it’s important to first backup your stuff!
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Next, you’ll need to create a bootable OS installer thumb drive with the needed macOS your system supports. Once that is none and you know it is working you can proceed in taking both drives out. Putting the 2TB blade SSD you’ve bought.
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Next, you’ll need to create a bootable OS installer thumb drive with the needed macOS your system supports. Once that is done and you know it is working you can proceed in taking both drives out. Putting the 2TB blade SSD you’ve bought.
Now carefully putting the system back together and using some masking tape to hold the display on. Plug in the OS installer thumb drive and prep the NVMe drive as your boot drive. Making sure it is above to boot up on its own you have a choice putting the SATA HDD back in as your data drive. Ideally using it for your media files music, photos, vids and your other more static files.
As you didn’t describe what your use is maybe this is not needed.
A Fusion Drive is a dual drive setup leveraging the small blade SSD as a cache drive so within the OS it is used to speed up access to repetitive reads of the active data blocks. If the given file is altered then the updated file is written back to the HDD.
So… Here you will break that Fusion Drive pairing so it’s important to first backup your stuff!
Next, you’ll need to create a bootable OS installer thumb drive with the needed macOS your system supports. Once that is none and you know it is working you can proceed in taking both drives out. Putting the 2TB blade SSD you’ve bought.
Now carefully putting the system back together and using some masking tape to hold the display on. Plug in the OS installer thumb drive and prep the NVMe drive as your boot drive. Making sure it is above to boot up on its own you have a choice putting the SATA HDD back in as your data drive. Ideally using it for your media files music, photos, vids and your other more static files.
As you didn’t describe what your use is maybe this is not needed.