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what is going on guys johnathan here with TLD and I got my hands on a 2012 fusion drive equipped Mac Mini kind of sounds like Cool Whip anyways I you guys wanted to see a demo how fast it was so here I am to bring it to you now for those you guys who aren't aware of what a fusion drive is or how it works that essentially takes the speed and performance of an SSD and combines it with the low-cost capacity storage of a traditional hard drive it actually is a little bit different than traditional SSD caching or something like Intel Smart Response technology it'll automatically and intelligently move files you use a lot on to the SSD and then files you don't onto the hard drive all in the background so essentially it's going to make it feel like you're working and operating on an SSD but give you the bigger capacities of a traditional hard drive now real quickly before we jump into the testing if we go to look into the system report you can see there actually are two separate drives the SSD and the one terabyte hard drive interestingly enough it is actually 5400 rpm so it's actually really curious to see how the overall speed and performance would be now even though it appears as two separate drives there it actually appears as one volume to the OS so if we go into the storage section you can see it shows up as one volume like I said and there's a little over one terabyte accounting with the hard drive plus the flash storage now that we got all the info out of the way we can go to and begin testing and we're going to start out with a boot up speed test and I'm actually going to compare it with another 2012 Mac Mini this time it is only featuring a standard 5400 rpm hard drive no SSD no flash storage so you guys can check out the difference and the 2012 Mac Mini would just a 5400 rpm hard drive is just about finishing up and you can actually see there is a huge difference between those two next up we're going to hop over to disk speed test and you can see the Mac Mini with the fusion drive is pulling some impressive numbers we're getting write speeds over 300 megabytes per second and read speeds over 400 megabytes per second alternatively you can see the Mac Mini with just the standard 5400 rpm hard drive does not exceed 100 megabytes per second so the fusion drive actually tripled and quadrupled the performance next up we're going to do a 4 gigabyte file duplicate essentially what it's going to do is just copy and paste itself to the same location I'm actually going to throw on some elevator music or something because you can see exactly how much quicker the fusion drive is on this task I actually wanted to throw some jeopardy music or something because the 5400 rpm hard drive was taken a hell of a lot longer and you can see the fusion drive is actually kicking some ass so thank you guys for watching this video if you did enjoy it you guys know the drill and you are feeling like being awesome make sure to go TLD style on the like button again if you guys have not subscribed make sure to do so of an annotation up in the top left hand corner I'll actually be doing more extensive tests in between the quad core and dual core Mac Mini and you guys don't want to miss that lastly if you did miss my 2012 iPad Mini review I actually got that up and you guys can check it out and see if it's worth the money or if it's worth a pass just go to and click this video right here in front of your face and I will see you guys later you