However I was suspicious that the drive might fail again. Having got back to where I had been before the drive failed I was happy with going back to work on the iMac. So much so that I had to copy the data off the iMac onto an external drive and then reformat the drive and reinstall OS X. So now they have my iMac for a week, well hopefully less time than that.īack in April I had a few problems with the Fusion Drive on my 2014 iMac. What the Apple Store was proposing wasn’t excessive and so decided to go down that road. I did consider before taking it to Apple to get someone else to do this, but they would charge £84 first just to diagnose the problem, so would then charge (like Apple) for labour on top, as well as the replacement HDD cost. Also the cost of a 2TB or 3TB SDD was quite expensive, though buying a 3TB HDD myself would be cheaper than what Apple was proposing to charge.
So wasn’t sure I wanted to go down the road. However upon consideration, taking a 2014 iMac apart isn’t a simple job and would require replacing the adhesive for the glass LCD panel. I could replace the broken SATA HDD with a new SDD drive.
I could replace the SATA HDD myself with another SATA HDD, which I did consider. They confirmed my diagnosis that the Fusion Drive had failed. Well after the failure (again) of the Fusion Drive in my iMac I took it to the Genius Bar of my local Apple Store. This took much longer than I thought it would.įinally after many hours it looked like my iMac was back. Then I used the migration assistant to start moving files from the external hard drive to the iMac. Key for me was Fireworks, but I did have Photoshop which I could use instead. Decided to bite the bullet and install Big Sur, knowing full well that I had applications that I liked that I wouldn’t be able to use. Having reset the fusion drive, I then set about formatting the drive and installing OS X. I did think that this was poor, as the last time the drive failed they had reset the fusion drive and installed OS X onto the iMac. Luckily I knew how to do this via Terminal and the diskutil resetfusion command. The SSD was still visible, but at least now I could see the 3TB physical drive. They had left it pretty much, from an OS X perspective as I had left it with them. The Apple Store had replaced the failing hard drive, but that was it. Having driven up to the store and come home, I got my iMac out of the car and set it up. Less than a week later I got a call from the Apple Store saying it was fixed and I could come and pick it up. I booked it into the Apple Store for a repair. Despite trying to fix it myself through software the reality was that it was looking very much like a hardware failure. A week ago my iMac’s fusion drive failed.
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