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Ok, I am at my wit's end. Last week after 10.13.3 failed to install twice, my late 2014 5K Retina iMac became painfully slow. Eventually it just bricked. I tried to restore from Time Capsule over ethernet but it would get to around 28% and slow to a crawl. Like 200 hours crawl.

After numerous attempts at this I bailed and tried reinstalling the OS. No dice there, it would just stall at the startup screen.

Next I installed macOS to an external drive and then using SuperDuper tried cloning it back to the iMac. This worked and I ran Migration Assistant which looked promising but again, stalled around 1/3 through.

Canceled that and now when I go into Disk Utility I see this for the internal drive:

  • APPLE SSD SD0128F Media (Solid State) 121GB
  • Macintosh HD (CoreStorage Logical Volume) 120GB

The Fusion drive is supposed to be 3.11TB, I seem to have lost almost all my storage space.

I suspect this is why all my efforts to restore have failed, it gets to the new available capacity of 120GB or 240GB and doesn't know what to do.

I have not been able to find a solution to reclaiming the 3.11TB and recreating the Fusion drive, am I out of luck here and just need to bite the bullet and go to an Apple Store?

Much appreciated.

Tom
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    The most likely problem is the spinning 3TB hard drive failed. It needs to be replaced. – Allan Mar 10 '18 at 15:05
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    See this answer https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/238092/27-imac-late-2012-hdd-failure/238093#238093. Mine was a 2012, but the 2014 5K is basically the same layout and assembly. You can fix it, but it will take some time. – Allan Mar 10 '18 at 15:08
  • Thanks for that. I just read that the Fusion drives Macs were recalled, I never knew or got the notice even though I registered with Apple. I have a Genius bar appt today so I will grovel for a free replacement even though the recall expired. – Tom Mar 10 '18 at 15:12
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    If you can get it for free, that's good otherwise I wouldn't put another spinning drive in there. My 2012 runs awesome (cool and quiet) to this day. – Allan Mar 10 '18 at 15:29
  • They wouldn't honor the 2012 recall on my 2014 fwiw, replacing the 3TB, not SSD. Figure it's four years old, if I can get another few years out of it it's worth it. – Tom Mar 11 '18 at 00:54

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I had the very same issue encountered with a iMac that has 1Tb Fusion drive. 22Gb was reported as SSD and then the rest of 1Tb of the drive. After digging deeper into this problem, I noticed that the iMac Fusion drive was improperly configured and that I had to reformat it and create a Logical Volume, then configure the Fusion Drive to Apple Spec.

I found this article that helped me a bit, but I had to do a little improvising to get this procedure to work.

https://www.lifewire.com/setting-up-fusion-drive-mac-2260165

Joe Gocobachi
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