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DIY Fusion drive - do I have to wipe both drives???

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jeff3f

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This is OSX 10.9, I have an existing 1TB HDD (with recovery partition and bootcamp partition) and a new, essentially empty 240GB SSD (crucial M500).

I see DIY sites saying that one should wipe both drives and use a third drive or a USB drive for booting into recovery and doing the formatting/OSX installation.

But has anyone done this using the partitions, in an effort to leave the existing recovery (and maybe bootcamp) partitions out of the equation? so instead of "fusion disk0 disk1", it'd be disk0 and disk1s2 for example. Anyone do this? does it work OK?

if I do wind up wiping both drives, is there a recovery partition at all? I read that there is *something* that works if you boot such a system into recovery (command-R during boot), but no mention as to whether that's a proper recovery partition or not.

thanks!
 
I can't tell you anything about making a DIY hybrid drive but I have to imagine you might need to reformat both of them. If you're going to fully wipe that SSD follow the instructions on securely erasing SSD's here (I was just linked this by a very helpful fellow in another thread.)
 
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