Can anyone explain the purpose of a 32 gig NVMe SSD? I think it’s quite an apple thing to install such a stupidly tiny drive into a computer, but on the other hand it doesn’t seem right. This can’t be a system drive can it? But what else could it be? This is like an impractical, high-speed USB drive that requires disassembly of the computer to remove…
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It’s for the “Fusion Drive.” It was just used as a cache basically. You had a larger, slower drive behind it for capacity, this just held frequently accessed data.
Sounds like intels optane drives
More or less. Fusion Drive was introduced when high capacity SSDs were rather expensive. Although the SSD part had 128 GB iirc. Apple stuck with Fusion Drive BTO options for way too long and also nerfed it to 32 GB as evidenced here.
This. I had one in an iMac a while back.
Anyone remember Intel Optane? Nah, just me.
It’s probably an SSD for a Fusion Drive setup: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_Drive
It seems to check out for iMac in 2019.
Lol wtf, this was in a 2019 computer?!
WHAT?
High capacity m.2’s have existed for over a decade. They were extremely affordable in 2019.
That’s Apple for ya.
