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replacement HDD for 2012 iMac 21.5 inch
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<blockquote data-quote="harryb2448" data-source="post: 1748553" data-attributes="member: 42497"><p>Bob you can buy a hard drive anywhere. WD, Seagate etc are leading brands. There are no such animals as 'Apple' drives. It just depends on the formatting the drive Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and setting Partition Map to GUID when the drive is installed. if you check out eBay you will find ample sellers of double sided tapes. I trust you are pretty experienced in taking apart computers etc as iMacs can be the very devil. You can get the procedure on ifixit.com.</p><p></p><p>One thing the standard 1TB hard drive is only a 5400rpm drive which is pretty slow and was a backwards step from the previous model which used a 7200rpm 3 1/2" drive. Larger sizes is SSDs are not cheap alas.</p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Double-Sided-Tape-Adhesive-6PCS-1-Set-for-iMac-21-5-A1418-2012-2013-2014-2015-/322144386982" target="_blank">http://www.ebay.com/itm/Double-Sided-Tape-Adhesive-6PCS-1-Set-for-iMac-21-5-A1418-2012-2013-2014-2015-/322144386982</a></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iMac+Intel+21.5-Inch+EMC+2544+Hard+Drive+Replacement/16729" target="_blank">https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iMac+Intel+21.5-Inch+EMC+2544+Hard+Drive+Replacement/16729</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="harryb2448, post: 1748553, member: 42497"] Bob you can buy a hard drive anywhere. WD, Seagate etc are leading brands. There are no such animals as 'Apple' drives. It just depends on the formatting the drive Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and setting Partition Map to GUID when the drive is installed. if you check out eBay you will find ample sellers of double sided tapes. I trust you are pretty experienced in taking apart computers etc as iMacs can be the very devil. You can get the procedure on ifixit.com. One thing the standard 1TB hard drive is only a 5400rpm drive which is pretty slow and was a backwards step from the previous model which used a 7200rpm 3 1/2" drive. Larger sizes is SSDs are not cheap alas. [url]http://www.ebay.com/itm/Double-Sided-Tape-Adhesive-6PCS-1-Set-for-iMac-21-5-A1418-2012-2013-2014-2015-/322144386982[/url] [url]https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iMac+Intel+21.5-Inch+EMC+2544+Hard+Drive+Replacement/16729[/url] [/QUOTE]
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