> This article is completely accurate - there's nothing new or innotivative about fusion drive when compared to what was in the market years ago- it's pure mark

> This article is completely accurate - there's nothing new or innotivative about fusion drive when compared to what was in the market years ago- it's pure marketing. Pardon me but it's the first time ever I heard about tiered storage (not caching hybrids which is handled by the drives themselves) being available outside of datacenters. Doesn't explain the +250$ price. Besides, the whole tone of the article is full of useless hatred. The point could have been made without such aggressiveness. What's more, the proposed solution is ludicrous: - buy an external SSD - install OSX on it - wipe the internal disk - manually manage files/applications/whatnot to be stored on the SSD or the disk. I can't even begin to describe how such a scheme is brittle and contrived. Can we stop pretending everyone out there is technically inclined? To us technical folks who know how to actually build the CoreStorage tiered array, 250$ may look like a steep price, but to the huge amount of real people out there, the convenience is well worth 250$, and for those it's not worth, well they'd stay with a spinner anyway.