As I don't have a Fusion Drive to experiment on, I cannot test or otherwise verify this, but Fusion Drives are virtual entities somewhat along the lines of APFS volumes. I believe that in order to run a Surface Scan you would have to address only the HD portion of the drive.

NOTE: Beginning with High Sierra (MacOS 10.13) Apple does NOT permit a surface scan of the boot drive.


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