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- Late 2015 27" iMac, 3.3ghz, M395 gpu, 2tb Fusion, 8gb
The hard drive in my Intel iMac died today and I'm going to replace it. While searching I found on OWC that SSD drives are almost affordable and was wondering if it is worth trying. With 1tb already hanging off of the machine I was thinking I don't really need to even put the full 250gb back, and could go cheap and use a 120. This would give me fast boots and app starts, and I'd put all the other stuff on the external drives.
Will a smaller drive be a problem with Time Machine? Or can I select just OSX and apps. This is the first time I'll have actually restored something.
Will these work in a 1st gen Intel iMac? And if they do will it make a difference on speed? And if they don't work, do I need to replace like with like? Or can any drive go in? I'm seeing a lot of comments about how Apple makes it difficult to swap drives because of heat sensors and the like, but these comments are for newer machines.
This is an old Intel machine, 5 years already, but it still serves its purpose for surfing and light apps. I'm not doing video editing, although I do some audio. I'm still using old PPC Excel on Rosetta and it is slow, but not too much. Open Office is equally slow. It runs my media center just fine and that's probably the most important app right now. I'm back to using CDs for music. Remember those?
The processor is a core duo, not a core 2 duo, the memory is 1gb as I could never get the second bay to work, it was a 250gb drive. I'm on Snow Leopard but still run the older iLife apps except the free ones of course.
Will a smaller drive be a problem with Time Machine? Or can I select just OSX and apps. This is the first time I'll have actually restored something.
Will these work in a 1st gen Intel iMac? And if they do will it make a difference on speed? And if they don't work, do I need to replace like with like? Or can any drive go in? I'm seeing a lot of comments about how Apple makes it difficult to swap drives because of heat sensors and the like, but these comments are for newer machines.
This is an old Intel machine, 5 years already, but it still serves its purpose for surfing and light apps. I'm not doing video editing, although I do some audio. I'm still using old PPC Excel on Rosetta and it is slow, but not too much. Open Office is equally slow. It runs my media center just fine and that's probably the most important app right now. I'm back to using CDs for music. Remember those?
The processor is a core duo, not a core 2 duo, the memory is 1gb as I could never get the second bay to work, it was a 250gb drive. I'm on Snow Leopard but still run the older iLife apps except the free ones of course.