iMac Replacment Hard Drive

jakesaunders27

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Jan 23, 2012

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• Jul 28, 2012

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Hi
I have a 2007 iMac Aluminum and the hard drive needs replacing will either of these 2 hard drives fit/work:

http://www.ebuyer.com/272944-seagate-500gb-barracuda-internal-hard-drive-st500dm002

http://www.ebuyer.com/344706-seagat...00dm005?utm_source=google&utm_medium=products

can someone please help me as this is my dads iMac and I want to replace the hard drive for him as he doesnt have the time so i want to have it done as quickly as possible

Cheers Guys

 

obsidian1200

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Jun 19, 2010

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• Jul 28, 2012

• #2

Both of those drives should work just fine.

 

jakesaunders27

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• Jul 28, 2012

• #3

obsidian1200 said:

Both of those drives should work just fine.

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ok because i read that the 2007 imac doesnt support SATA III, is this correct?

 

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Hillskill

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• Jul 28, 2012

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Correct. It won't support SATAIII however all SATAIII drives are backwards compatible and will work fine.

 

jakesaunders27

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• Jul 28, 2012

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Hillskill said:

Correct. It won't support SATAIII however all SATAIII drives are backwards compatible and will work fine.

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what do you mean by backwards compatible? sorry for dumb question!

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do you mean the hard drive will support older connections?

 

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mbm

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• Jul 30, 2012

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jakesaunders27 said:

what do you mean by backwards compatible? sorry for dumb question!

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do you mean the hard drive will support older connections?

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In this case, backwards compatible just means that the hard drive will work for you, but it technically may not transfer the data as fast with the older connection. Don't worry about it.