Dear Antonio have solved your question? Before opening the mac I wanted to know what was needed to do the upgrade How are the temperature sensing and fan speeds affected by a swap?
The fans will go a little crazy because of the swap. You can download either, which I believe work just fine:. Fix Your Stuff Community Store. Difficulty Moderate. Steps Time Required 30 minutes - 2 hours. Sections 4. Flags 0. Introduction Replacing the hard drive requires separating the display and removing the left speaker. Step 1 Display. Tool used on this step:. Add a comment.
Add Comment Cancel. Step 2. Step 3. Step 4. Step 5. One comment. Step 6. Step 7. Step 8. Step 9. Step Step 31 Hard Drive. Step 32 Replace the hard drive with an SSD. Remembered your password? Back to login. Already have an account? Login here. Important note on upgrading an iMac: This is a hard, technical project. It can take 8 hours or more. There is a chance you can break your very expensive screen. Please do a lot of research before attempting this.
If you manage the repair successfully, let us know so we can put you in our iMac Hall of Fame! Here is a handy guide from iFixit that we like.
Increase iMac lifespan. An iMac SSD upgrade can possibly solve the following problems: — Your iMac becomes slow and sometimes does not startup. Upgrade your existing iMac SSD. One of the biggest reasons is cost. Upgrading an existing iMac is far more cost effective than purchasing a new one. What Apple iMac upgrades are available for my iMac? Fastest iMac SSD performance.
You should have a new macOS with all your applications and data restored back on the system. If you are migrating to an old version of OSX such as Lion, then you need to use another method. This method is not recommended if the macOS are too far apart in release. It is ok if you are moving from Sierra to High Sierra. But if your computer is on Lion, your application and core system files will not be compatible with High Sierra.
Time Machine has many features that can make your life easier when upgrading to an SSD. You should be backing up on a regular basis and Time Machine is Apple's built in back up software that is easy to use. To create backups with Time Machine, all you need is an external storage device.
After you connect the device and select it as your backup disk, Time Machine automatically makes hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the past month and weekly backups for all previous months. The oldest backups are deleted when your backup disk is full. If you connect a new external drive to your mac you should see this window pop on the screen. If you dont get the pop up you can go to Time Machine app and select disk or add Disk.
The software will set up automated back ups. If you periodically connect the Time Machine, if it does not automatically start you can start a backup manually, choose Back Up Now from the Time Machine. If your Time Machine is backing up your whole drive, yes the macOS is backed up. You have a complete back up of your Mac. You do not have to download macOS to use your Time Machine.
It is not totally understood what is happening, but it is not uncommon for Time Machine to get additional files from the Apple website before restoring a Time Machine back up. Usually these files are to do with the recovery partition on the Time Machine or the Disk Utilities page. No judgement here, but here is a way to fix all that. We call it the Double Clone. The Double Clone Instead of ordering a clone cable or an external clone case, you buy an external drive.
A 1tb or 2tb drive is a good size, the major brands are Toshiba, Seagate, Verbatim or Western Digital. You dont need the SSD version, just a standard external drive. Format the external drive. Use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone your Mac onto the new drive. Install the new SSD. Restart the Mac holding down the Option key. Select the new cloned external drive. You are now running your Mac off the external drive. When the clone if finished, shut down the Mac, remove the external clone and restart the Mac.
Open Time Machine, plug in the external drive, i f you don't get the pop up window asking to turn teh drive into a Time Machine, then select disk or add Disk and start a new Time Machine. Please note it will erase all the clone data, be sure your new SSD is working as expected before erasing the clone.
Rebooting off Time Machine Time Machine does not have a recovery partition, however you can use it to restore your Mac or install a new macOS. This loads the boot manager and you can see all drives attached to the Mac.
The Time Machine should display as an external drive. Select it and the Mac will build a macOS Utilities page that will have Disk Utility to initialise a new drive or erase a current drive and install a new macOS.
We have recommended Diskmaker X in the past but the method we outline here is the recommended method from Apple. If you have already downloaded and upgraded, you will need to download the MacOS again Apple deletes installer once it has been used. For best results use a USB 3. You can use an external hard drive note: any data on the drive will be lost as it gets formatted. You can erase and rename. The MacOS creation method will reformat the drive, so it does not need to be any specific format type like Fat32 or Mac Journaled.
What is important is the name of the drive, as it is used in the code below. We are going to use the command line app called Terminal to create the MacOS drive. Don't worry if you have never used it, it is very easy, not that scary. Open Terminal, it is found in the Utilities folder in Applications. Paste the code you copied into Terminal and hit enter.
It will ask for your system password usually the one you log on with at start up. Type Y and return when it asks if you want to erase this drive. When it is finished creating it will display "Copy complete". You can close Terminal. Select and hit return. You do not need to select a network. Go into Disk Utility, Erase and name.
Proceed to install macOS. When you get your new SSD it is uninitialised. This means it can be used in a Mac or PC. It needs to be initialised before use. In the PC world they call this formatting the drive.
In the Mac world it is called Erase and it is a function of Disk Utilities Disk Utility is a tool included in many places. It is found in the Utilities directory in Applications. It is included in any macOS install app. It is also a part of the Internet Recovery boot up. There are many reasons why you would want to erase a drive, this guide is focused on initialising a new SSD, however for readers who are looking at general information we have added the following warning Warning : Erasing a disk will delete all data on the disk.
I know that sounds obvious but you would be surprised with the support calls we get Four steps to initialise a new SSD. When you start Disk Utility, in the sidebar are the drives attached to the Mac. Select the disk name, not the indented volume name. There are two to three fields that need to be selected. Please note: this process cannot be used to clone a Windows partition created by Boot Camp. We recommend WinClone by Twocanoes Software.
It is commercial software requiring a license to use, however it is not affiliated with our company and that is not an affiliate link.
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