I replaced the PCI SSD on my late 2014 iMac 5K. Here's one choice: OWC ThunderBay 4 mini RAID.
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Even it has a bit of a wrinkle as Apple uses custom firmware on its HD drives so you'll need to use this: OWC In-line Digital Thermal Sensor for Hard Drive Upgrade for 27" iMacs 2012 and Later to replace the missing thermal sensor in the replacement drive (SSHD or SSD)įrankly, you might just go with an external Thunderbolt RAID drive which will get you a faster interface than the SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) the HD offers. Follow this IFIXIT guide: iMac Intel 27" EMC 2639 Hard Drive Replacement. If you want to try something safer here how about swapping out your HD for a SSHD or a SSD drive. You need the correct tools to remove the display assembly it you don't you will damage it which would be a costly mistake.
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OWC just intro'ed PCIe x2 SSD's for the MacBook Pro & Air which I think might work here but I've not done any of this my self.īut before you travel down this path review the IFIXIT guide here: iMac Intel 27" EMC 2639 SSD Replacement as this is a very big job to get to the SSD's slot. But there are a few people who have used Retina SSD's in the system with success in the older models. Presently no 3rd parties offer a replacement SSD (advertised as workable). Apple uses a custom SSD (very similar to M.2). The difficult teardown process was cited as one reason for the low scores, as was the fact that the front glass and the LCD are fused together into one monolithic piece.Sadly, you can't use the Samsung M.2 blade SSD in this system. Neither iMac got a very good "repairability score" from iFixit this time around the more-upgradeable 27-inch model got a five out of ten, while the 21.5-inch model got a two out of ten. Both the 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMacs were also confirmed to be using triple-antenna (3x3:3) 802.11ac configurations, meaning the iMacs will be capable of the standard's maximum theoretical transfer speed of 1.3Gbps where the 2013 MacBook Airs used a two-antenna setup capable of 867Mbps speeds. The 27-inch model proves a bit easier to upgrade: it still has four user-accessible RAM slots, still leaves people who opt out of the Fusion Drive or SSD upgrades an empty PCIe slot to use, and still uses a socketed Intel CPU for those of you who want to take the trouble to upgrade that component yourselves after the fact. However, the low-end iMac's use of Intel's Iris Pro 5200 integrated GPUs means that it uses one of Intel's R-series CPUs, and those CPUs only come in a soldered-on ball-grid array (BGA) package. You can still access the computer's two RAM slots if you're brave enough to attempt the teardown process (which includes tearing apart and replacing some foam padding), and Apple has included an empty PCIe slot on the base model where last year's model only had an empty spot on the system board. One of our chief complaints about last year's 21.5-inch iMac was how difficult it was to upgrade, and that remains true of this year's model. Just one day after Apple quietly refreshed its iMac lineup with Intel's new Haswell processors, the teardown artists at iFixit have pulled both the 21.5-inch and 27-inch models apart to see what makes them tick.
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