So I just go through replacing the hard drive in my Mid-2007 iMac with a Samsung 830 256GB SSD and an additional 750GB Seagate Momentus XT in the Optical Bay with a SATA to PATA adapter. The computer is so much fast with the SSD it's like night and day, I recommend everyone do this upgrade before opting to by a new mac.
So here is my issue, the SSD works great, but the Seagate has a problem being recognized. In the initial startup it was recognized and worked fine, but than when I would go to open up a file it would freeze than it would unmount itself. I checked all the connections and they appear to be good. I'm thinking that the hard drive might be a little overkill for a PATA connection, since it is capable of 6Gb/s and the hard drive might not get enough power going through, but I checked the specs of the original superdrive and it's not all that different.
Could the fact that it has a 32MB cache make a difference? Any help would be great, I'd like to know whether to keep trying or replace the HD with something else.
Thanks in advance.
So here is my issue, the SSD works great, but the Seagate has a problem being recognized. In the initial startup it was recognized and worked fine, but than when I would go to open up a file it would freeze than it would unmount itself. I checked all the connections and they appear to be good. I'm thinking that the hard drive might be a little overkill for a PATA connection, since it is capable of 6Gb/s and the hard drive might not get enough power going through, but I checked the specs of the original superdrive and it's not all that different.
Could the fact that it has a 32MB cache make a difference? Any help would be great, I'd like to know whether to keep trying or replace the HD with something else.
Thanks in advance.
