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I bought one of those from best buy and quickly hit the wall with the 5400 rpm drive. I bought the iMac repair kit from ifixit and put a 1tb ssd in its place. I
by S_A_P 8y ago
I bought one of those from best buy and quickly hit the wall with the 5400 rpm drive. I bought the iMac repair kit from ifixit and put a 1tb ssd in its place. It screams now. I have literally never had a drive swap make such a HUGE performance improvement.
- noonespecial 8y agoCan confirm. 2012 Imac with 1TB rust disk was truly feeling its age. Swapped to small SSD I had laying around just to see what would happen and just SuperDuper-ed the old OS. Could not believe the difference. You just have to see it happen to get it. Best upgrade ever.
- gshubert17 8y agoAgreed. I had a 2009 iMac with 640GB (7200 rpm) disk and 4 GB ram. I swapped to a smaller (250 GB) SSD and upgraded to 8 GB ram and it's like a new machine for me--a great upgrade.
- prewett 8y agoIs using an external SSD drive with USB 3 a reasonable alternative? I'm considering an iMac, but I'd rather not do that iFixit kit on a brand new machine if I can avoid it.
- subpixel 8y agohuh - back to Craigslist for me!