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512 SSD from 15 inch rMBP
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I would like to know this as well.
Please share your source of information that this won't work.
Try it and you'll find out
but seriously, it won't. The Retina MacBook Pro doesn't have an SSD persay. It has "flash storage." Works exactly the same, but is a proprietary unit designed to work specifically with the rMBP. It has a different form factor
the new iMac on the other hand, has a traditional 2.5" SSD, in addition to a conventionally spinning hard drive.
Look closely on Apple's website. They use both the nomenclature "Flash Storage" and "SSD" on different products. They indicated different things.
Even so, check out iFixit's tear down of the rMBP. It's not easy to take apart and removing the flash storage would be difficult. Putting it into the iMac would be difficult as well. Not sure about this, but If I recall correctly, only the 27" has accessible Memory and neither have accessible storage.
jeezus christ.. these posts by Shadow%20Mac and shenan1982 are totally incorrect and are from those who didn't even bother themselves to look at teardown photos..
the correct answer is YES, YOU CAN!
both new 21.5 and 27 iMacs have one 2.5/3.5 HDD bay respectively and the place and connector for the blade ssd of the same form-factor as rMBPs have.
the correct answer is YES, YOU CAN!
both new 21.5 and 27 iMacs have one 2.5/3.5 HDD bay respectively and the place and connector for the blade ssd of the same form-factor as rMBPs have.
Not to mention that installation/removal of the SSD is not all that difficult ... it involves a plug-in card and a screw to hold it in place. 
Indeed, there's nothing more difficult than removing ten screws, removing the battery connector and removing a blade ssd itself. Two minutes of totally unbearable difficulty
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Well these responses got me real interested since I started this thread. I called apple tech. service and with a lot of transfering got a hold of a friend of mine who use to live in Augusta ga. near me. He is now a techinal service manager for Apple in Texas. His speciality is fusion drive. His answer to me was the 128, 256 and 512 flash drives are all interchanable in the 13 and 15 retina models. He also said, although he has not tried it as yet, he sees no reason that these could not be installed in the Imac. According to him the 128 flash up to the 768 are all interchanable.
That is because they do want us to get a £2000 machine for £1800 and saving money on a more powerful ssd. These people dont understand that with a bit of effort this is a easy process. I am thinking of buying a iMac 2012 service pack of vhm strips and breaking it for ebay to ship worldwide as they are currently none available. I dont know if anybody would be interested in strips for both imacs?
This sounds really good, another guy on rip these imac's open is going to try with an owc drive so cross fingers for that one, another user said that they could not get it to turn on for some reason.