Fusion Drive Creation for MacBook Pro
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1. pm ro E Macboo To copy a volume or rescore a disk Image to a volume select the source volume or 750 16 G8 WDC WD75 0 Gtk image select the destination volume ang then cack Restare fo To select a source do one of the tsllowing Fe copy a du drag it from the list on the left Source n Boot image To select a Gestinatinn velume diag it from the list on the heft to the Destination field Destination J MacfookPro Fusion Erase MactockPro Fusion and copy the contes of Root to lt Mount Port Capacity 744 3 GB 749 296 615 424 Bytes Format Mat OS Extended Usurasied Available 742 32 CB 742 315 941 858 Bytes Used 6 98 GR 6 9R0 G77 576 Pyret Number of Folders 66 644 Number of Files 239 54 6 You will receive a warning informing you that the partition will be erased Click OK RESTORE THE MASTER DRIVE IMAGE ONTO THE FUSION DRIVE 9 WD Black Fusion Drive Creation User Manual 7 Wait for the restore process to finish 8 Shut down your Mac and disconnect the original USB attached drive You are now done and can begin using your Mac Information furnished by WD is believed to be accurate and reliable however no responsibility is assumed by WD for its use nor for any infringement of patents or other rights of third parties which may result from its use No license is granted by implication or otherwise under any patent or patent rights of WD WD reserves the right to change spec2. Fusion Drive Creation User Manual 4 Select the USB drive partition containing the Mac OSX operating system then click on the Restore tab on the right side next to the RAID button If done correctly you should see the USB partition in the Source field Fins Ai Case mo ESD 3 MactookProfaion J MacfookPro F usion To Copy volume of restore 4 dish Image to a volume select the smere volume ot E 750 16 C8 WDC WD7S 0 dal image select the destination volume and then click Restore To select 2 source da ane of the following To restore diak image stored on di click image To restore a disk image stored on the web drag it from a web browse to the Source field or enver its URL starting with hp 7 To copy a dith Stag it free the liet an the left Souete Boot Image To select a destination volume drag n trem the list on the teft to the Destination fed Dettimatioe Brave Destination and copy te contente af Moss to it Rest Mount Point j Capacity 749 1 CE 749 296 615 424 Byres Format Mac O Extended Qournaled Avaitablo 742 12 CR 742 31 77R048 Bytes Owners Gnabled Yer Used 6 98 CE 6 989 837 376 Bytes Number of Folders 66 646 Number of Files 259 556 5 Drag the Fusion drive partition at the top of the list see Creating a Fusion Drive From a Core Storage Volume on page 5 into the Destination field and click the Restore button U RAK E MacBookProFusion Rese Ai ER cc
3. D WD BLACK Fusion Drive Creation for MacBook Pro Installation Guide Table of Contents 1 GettingStarted 2 SettingUptheFusionDrive 3 Creating a Fusion Drive From a Core Storage Volume 4 Verify Proper Creation of the Fusion Drive 5 Restore the Master Drive Image Onto the Fusion Drives iiics ee sos eal eee eee eas TABLE OF CONTENTS i WD Black Fusion Drive Creation User Manual Getting Started This guide is intended to guide you through the process of creating an Apple Mac Fusion drive using a WD Black Dual Drive Note Fusion drives are only supported on Mountain Lion OSX 10 8 2 and higher Items needed to perform this process A Phillips screwdriver with O tip head SATA to USB Adapter Cable WDMac_XLBA Tool download at http support wd com product download asp groupid 2301 amp lang en Image Backup of MacBook System drive Refer to your Apple system documentation for information on using Time Machine Remove your existing MacBook internal hard drive and replace it with the WD Black Dual Drive Refer to your Apple system documentation for hard drive removal and installation instructions GETTING STARTED 1 WD Black Fusion Drive Creation User Manual Setting Up the WD Black Drive Follow these instructions to boot the Mac system from the original system drive via the SATA to USB cable 1 Attach the o
4. e Storage Logical Volume Group Switching disk0s2 to Core Storage Switching disk0s3 to Core Storage Waiting for Logical Volume Group to appear Discovered new Logical Volume Group 780497B3 8F6E 4A70 A4FE 781FB9D23F54 780497B3 8F6E 4A70 A4FE 781FB9D23 F54 Finished CoreStorage operation diskutil cs list CoreStorage logical volume groups 1 found Logical Volume Group 780497B3 8F6E 4A70 A4FE 781FB9D23F54 MacBookProFusion Status Online Size 1119760818176 B 1 1 Free Space 1111254499328 B 1 1 lt Physical Volume E6C27861 79E1 462D A95F DEE0F464AFOB Disk disk0s2 Status Online Size 119690170368 B 119 7 GB Physical Volume BA6B7E32 E4A8 43BB B676 8E31A1FA54DE Disk disk0s3 Status Online Size 1000070647808 B 1 0 TB Note You will need the Core Storage LVG UUID number above for the next step CREATING A FUSION DRIVE FROM A CORE STORAGE VOLUME 5 WD Black Fusion Drive Creation User Manual 2 To create the fusion drive from the core storage volume issue the command below enter the createVolume number which is the Core Storage LVG UUID numberfrom step one Users Desktop xlba_v1 3 Mac diskutil cs createVolume 780497B3 8F6E 4A70 A4FE 781FB9D23F54 JHFS MacBookPro Fusion 100 Output From Terminal Started CoreStorage operation Waiting for Logical Volume to appear Formatting file system for Logical Volume Initialized dev rdisk2 as a 1 TB HFS Pl
5. ifications at any time without notice Western Digital WD and the WD logo are registered trademarks of Western Digital Technologies Inc in the U S and other countries and WD Black is a trademark of Western Digital Technologies Inc in the U S and other countries Other marks may be mentioned herein that belong to other companies 2014 Western Digital Technologies Inc All rights reserved Western Digital 3355 Michelson Drive Suite 100 Irvine California 92612 U S A 2779 800001 A02 Feb 2014 RESTORE THE MASTER DRIVE IMAGE ONTO THE FUSION DRIVE 10
6. riginal system drive to the SATA to USB cable 2 To boot from the USB drive press the power button followed by pressing and holding the Option button on the keyboard 3 After the Apple logo appears you will see the drive icons on the screen Select the orange USB drive icon to continue the boot process 4 When the following dialog box opens click Ignore The drive will be initialized in a subsequent step The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer Initialize Ignore Eject 5 Once the system completes the boot process locate the utility that you downloaded from http support wd com product download asp groupid 23014 amp lang en as indicated in Getting Started above and unzip it on your desktop 6 Proceed by opening a terminal window and dragging the XLBA tool on top of the terminal Window Press the spacebar enter d 0 enable then press ENTER 7 See the sample output below If you unzipped the XLBA file somewhere other than your desktop a different path will display User1 below should be your desktop name See also the Output from Terminal example below Users User1 Desktop xlba d 0 enable SETTING UP THE WD BLACK DRIVE 2 WD Black Fusion Drive Creation User Manual Output from Terminal Macintosh xlba_v1 3 Mac 0359g Users 0359g Desktop xlba_v1 3 Mac xlba enable XLBA Version 1 3 mac Enable Disable Hybrid s iSSD Copyright C 2012 2013 Western Digital Corporation E
7. tions are created within the SSD and HDD boundaries Output from Terminal Finished partitioning on disk0 TYPE NAME IDENTIFIER GUID partition scheme di sk0 EFI disk0s1 Apple_HFS disk0s2 Apple_HFS disk0s3 11 If you only want to use the SSD as the main OS partition and the HDD as a storage partition and are not interested in using the WD Black Dual Drive as a core storage fusion drive volume you can skip the next steps and go to Restore the Master Drive Image Onto the Fusion Drive on page 8 to restore your original image drive onto the SSD volume partition Note It is not recommended to use the fully expanded WD Black Dual Drive as a single non fused partition as this will create a single partition that spans across the virtual boundary between the SSD and HDD Performance degradation caused by the OS trying to access a nonexistent drive location will result SETTING UP THE WD BLACK DRIVE 4 WD Black Fusion Drive Creation User Manual Creating a Fusion Drive From a Core Storage Volume To create a core storage volume issue the command below to merge the two partitions that were created in section 1 the disk numbers below may be different depending on your system configuration You must use the path to the SSD and HDD partitions that were created by the diskutil partition command Users Desktop xlba_v1 3 Mac diskutil cs create MacBookProFusion disk0s2 disk0s3 Output From Terminal Creating Cor
8. us volume with a 90112k journal Mounting disk Core Storage LV UUID 946ADCA0 4D33 4B1F AB27 604E8704F498 Core Storage disk disk2 Finished CoreStorage operation CREATING A FUSION DRIVE FROM A CORE STORAGE VOLUME 6 WD Black Fusion Drive Creation User Manual Verify Proper Creation of the Fusion Drive 1 To verify that the fusion drive was created properly click on the Apple icon located on the top left corner of the screen Select About This Mac from the dropdown menu 2 Click the More Info button 3 Select the Storage tab If everything was done correctly in the Storage tab a hard drive icon appears underneath the drive capacity labelled Fusion Drive About This Mac Overview Displays Storage Memory Support Se Macintosh HD 813 13 GB free out of 1 11 TB ad ee mr I Audio MW Movies M Photos WU Apps M Backups Other 1 12 TB 5 5 MB 45 2 MB 429 4 MB 1 7GB Zero KB 295 43 GB Fusion Drive Disk Utility VERIFY PROPER CREATION OF THE FUSION DRIVE 7 WD Black Fusion Drive Creation User Manual Restore the Master Drive Image Onto the Fusion Drive 1 Shut down your Mac 2 Press the power button then press and hold the Option key on the keyboard Select the orange USB recovery drive icon 3 From the OSX Utilities Window select the Disk Utility icon and click the Continue button RESTORE THE MASTER DRIVE IMAGE ONTO THE FUSION DRIVE 8 WD Black
9. xecuting Users 0359g Desktop xlba_v1 3 Mac xlba d 0 enable Drive 0 WDC WD1001X06X 00SJVTO Serial WD WXXXXXXXX Firmware 01 01A01 LBAs 0x8269b960 Enable SSD Successful New LBAs 0x8269b960 8 Reboot the system from the from the original system drive to allow Mac OSX to display the extended combined SSD and HDD drive capacity 9 From a terminal window issue the command below to list all attached disks diskutil list Output from Terminal A I S SEI gii CESHE N 0359c bash 80x24 et Last login Wed Feb 26 11 26 49 on console localhost 0359c diskutil list dev disk TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER d GUID_partition_scheme 120 0 GB disk i EFI 209 7 MB disk s1 2 Apple_HFS Untitled 119 2 GB disk s2 dev diskl TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER d GUID_partition_scheme 750 2 GB disk1 2 EFI 209 7 MB disk1s1 2 Apple_HFS Boot 749 3 GB diskis2 3 Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650 0 MB diskis3 localhost 0359c J 10 Create two partitions on the WD Black Dual Drive by issuing the command below The disk number below may be different depending on your system configuration and should point to the Endeavor s drive path SETTING UP THE WD BLACK DRIVE 3 WD Black Fusion Drive Creation User Manual diskutil partitiondisk dev disk0 2 JHFS SSD 119824388096b JHFS HDD 1000G Note The SSD value shown above 119824388096b is an absolute value and must not be changed It ensures that the parti
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