![]() ![]() ![]() Similarly excited readers have pointed out that older MacBooks and certain other Macs are also easy to upgrade… but at least one Mac (surprise: the Mac mini) is not. Last week, buoyed by (finally!) reasonable SSD prices and a desire to try a DIY project, I walked through the steps to replace a prior-generation iMac’s hard drive with an SSD. Now I’m seeing five times the hard drive speeds, apps are loading instantly, and my iMac feels as responsive as the MacBooks and iPads that beat it to the SSD game. Even with 400GB of available space, OS X Yosemite’s constant hard drive accessing had brought my quad-core, 3.4GHz Core i7 machine to its knees. After installing a solid state drive (SSD) with no moving parts, the drone of my iMac’s hard drive and fans has given way to such an absence of sound that I only hear the high-pitched squeal of my office lights. There is no issue with compatibility, they're just ripping you off because it's officially "Macintosh compatible".My Mac is now silent. Quick edit do not bother buying those OWC SSDs linked above you can get something for half the price, even quality SSDs like Samsung EVO or Crucial MX. Very practical option, and cheap SSDs these days are good enough for 98% of people. I second the above comments to install another internal 1tb or 2tb SSD. Considering that the protocol that most 2.5" SSDs works over is SATA3 which is a 6Gb/s bus. USB3.0 (5 Gb/s) is fine, USB3.1 (10 Gb/s) is better, Thunderbolt 2 (20 Gb/s), great, but you probably couldn't even tell the difference. Copying gigantic continuous data such as video files would show some improvement for the added bus speed. ![]() Yes, but I would argue that any noticeable different would be workload-dependent - small random files won't see you ramping up speed to full potential of the disk, let alone the bus. ![]()
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