I ordered this Samsung SSD today since it's on sale at the moment. Good timing I guess since my drive died last night.
I figure since I have to crack this thing open, I might as well add the eSATA external connector I've been wanting for sometime now so I was going to pick up a SATA to eSATA 3' cable today from my local Frys.
I want to confirm before I get mid tear down on my iMac that 1: I don't need anything special to swap my dead 500GB OEM hard drive with the Samsung SSD drive like cables or adapters of any sort and 2: all I need to get an external eSATA connection is just a SATA to eSATA cable like this one in order to get a eSATA connection externally on my iMac. I planned on just routing the eSATA end out through the memory door area as most instructions suggest.
I've never had or used eSATA anything before so I'm wondering if just the extra SATA connection on the iMac motherboard is all that's needed for the eSATA end to work? How does it get power? I guess eSATA enclosures are powered on their own?
I'll of course have a ESD strap and am going to pick up a spudger from Frys as well to get all those cables safely disconnected without pulling on the actual ribbons themselves.
Thankfully I already picked up some heavy duty suction cups from Harbor Freight a few weeks ago as I was thinking one of these days I'd like to put a SSD in my iMac. I just didn't plan on it being so soon.
I figure since I have to crack this thing open, I might as well add the eSATA external connector I've been wanting for sometime now so I was going to pick up a SATA to eSATA 3' cable today from my local Frys.
I want to confirm before I get mid tear down on my iMac that 1: I don't need anything special to swap my dead 500GB OEM hard drive with the Samsung SSD drive like cables or adapters of any sort and 2: all I need to get an external eSATA connection is just a SATA to eSATA cable like this one in order to get a eSATA connection externally on my iMac. I planned on just routing the eSATA end out through the memory door area as most instructions suggest.
I've never had or used eSATA anything before so I'm wondering if just the extra SATA connection on the iMac motherboard is all that's needed for the eSATA end to work? How does it get power? I guess eSATA enclosures are powered on their own?
I'll of course have a ESD strap and am going to pick up a spudger from Frys as well to get all those cables safely disconnected without pulling on the actual ribbons themselves.
Thankfully I already picked up some heavy duty suction cups from Harbor Freight a few weeks ago as I was thinking one of these days I'd like to put a SSD in my iMac. I just didn't plan on it being so soon.
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