Thursday, October 25, 2012

Mac Mini New Use "Fusion Drive"

iPad Mini is not the only Apple product that has frills "mini". There is one tiny device that also introduced the Apple event on Tuesday (23/10/2012) and then, the latest update of the product line Mac mini desktop computer.

Like his brother, iMac and MacBook, desktop computer in a small casing is now equipped with an Intel Core i or Third Generation Ivy Bridge processors with Intel HD 4000 integrated graphics.

Apple also instilled storage method called "Fusion Drive" on the Mac mini. Fusion combines the conventional hard disk drives with a capacity of 1 TB or 3 TB with 128 GB SSD.



Drive storage itself remains recognizable as one partition, even though composed of two hard disks and SSD devices. How the technology works similar to the Fusion Drive SSD caching has been implemented on a Windows PC for some time, but differ among other things, writing in which the file is written to the SSD first, then to the hard disk so that the write speed is higher.

Applications and programs that are accessible to users will automatically be placed on the SSD, while the data is still stored in the hard disk. The resulting performance improvement Fusion Drive is claimed to achieve 3.5 times higher than the speed of conventional hard disk data access.

At the Apple Store site, the Mac mini is sold starting price of 599 dollars for a model with a dual-core Intel Core i5 2.5 GHz, 4 GB RAM, and 500 GB hard disk, but this model does not have the Fusion Drive.

Mac mini models can be equipped with a Fusion Drive sold for 799 dollars and have a quad-core Intel Core i7 2.3 GHz, 4 GB RAM, and hard disk / Fusion Drive 1 TB.

Apple also provides a model of the Mac mini server that comes with OS X Server operating systems.

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