There have been many tutorials on how to create a Core Storage volume that have been labeled as “how to create a Fusion drive”. Up until now, most of the reports you’ve read about creating your own DIY Fusion drive on a machine have been incomplete. The Profusion Of Fusion Confusionīut before we get to showing you exactly how to setup your own DIY Fusion drive, I’d like to dispel some mis-information that has been floating around the web. A little over a week ago, Apple released OS X version 10.8.3 and, with one small caveat, our hopes were fulfilled. We’ve been waiting and waiting for Apple to release the next version of OS X Mountain Lion in hopes that the next full version would have all the necessary components to setup a Fusion drive on any Mac capable of installing a hard drive and SSD together.
