PT11 with iMac (Late 2012) and Fusion Drive

[Rohrak]

Hi,

I have a late 2012 iMac with a Fusion Drive and MBox 2 Pro.

I was wondering if anyone else is running PT11 with the same machine? If so, have you experienced any issues? I've heard of potential issue with Fusion Drives, and also notice that the latest version of PT11 (11.1.2?) doesn't officially support my 2012 iMac.

I was considering upgrading to PT11, but would be good to hear how other folk are getting on with it.

Thanks

[nst7]

The fusion drive problem seemed to be specifically the late 2013 Imac models, I'm 99% sure. I don't think it will be an issue for you.

[Glazik]

Here iMac late 2012 with Mavericks & PT11 & fusion drive : no issue apart of usual bugs.

[PMF Media]

The Fusion Drive issue has been covered to death on this and other forums, in short, it will be problematic especially if you frequently run applications other than PT on the same machine/partition. The best and easiest way to avoid any issue is to split the FD and separate it into it's component drives (1 x spinner & 1x SSD) so you'll end yup with 2 drives on the desktop rather than the one.

Google the how to or search this forum.

Good luck.

[nst7]

But as mentioned, it seems to be specific to the 2013 models, so he should be fine. And the problem has nothing to do with PT11, so if it's working in PT10, then it won't be an issue with 11 either.

[PMF Media]

Sadly there are no guarantees with the Fusion Drives. The OS decides what portion - spinner or SSD - any given app resides on and will move apps around as it tries to determine optimal priority based on usage, this COULD be fine if PT is the only app that gets used on a regular basis or the FD is relatively empty (just the essentials installed), but from what I understand the end user has very little control over how this operates... you may get lucky. or face a world of pain.

Best bet, split the FD and all should be good.

[Eric Lambert]

Is there not a 3rd party app which can flag a particular file or group of files for life on, or off, the Fusion drive?

[PMF Media]

if there is, please post it's name and that of the manufacturer, it'd be huge!