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Apple relied on the Fusion drive for years as an affordable middle option between a slow but affordable high-capacity hard disk drive and a fast but expensive high-capacity SSD. The Fusion drive pairs ...

An international team of researchers have come up with a fusion-based spacecraft thruster that uses a hydrogen isotope called deuterium as a fuel source, as Popular Mechanics reports. Their “direct ...

A storage unit in earlier iMac and Mac mini that combined a hard drive (HD) with a solid state drive (SSD). Introduced in 2012, the Fusion Drive automatically moves frequently used data from the HD to ...

Helicity’s company website promises it’s all about “game-changing technology developed by a team with unrivaled expertise in fusion propulsion.” Co-founder Stephane Linter told SpaceNews.com that the ...

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Theoretically, if I were to tear down my iMac, and I wanted to replace the SSD part of a Fusion Drive with a larger part, could I take just the SSD out, put it in adapter, and then dd the contents to ...

A team of scientists is furiously working away at a spacecraft thruster that they say could reach Saturn’s moon Titan in less than half the time it took the satellite Cassini. The research, which, ...

Marvin Schildkraut writes in with a very common question about what upgrade choices to make when purchasing a new Mac. He’s considering extra RAM and a Fusion Drive. The cost of these two options is ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Using a conceptual direct fusion drive, we could reach Saturn and Titan in just two years. Titan's liquid surface oceans and rich hydrocarbons make ...