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Holy SSD Batman!

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nickosbad

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Feb 16, 2009
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Hello hello!!!

I've been contemplating replacing my 2010 3.06 i3 imac with a new shiny one as I was experiencing some sluggish performance

In the end I decided that £600 to upgrade to a new imac was not worth it so decided instead to install a 128GB Samsung SSD in an optibay, upgrade my ram to 8GB and fresh install Lion

I did this yesterday and WOW!!! £130 well spent.......this thing flies!!!

It boots up incredibly fast and my apps no longer bounce endlessly when starting....they dont bounce at all!!! I've put all apps and the OS on the SSD and kept the internal HDD as Media storage

Granted....it won't make my handbrake encodes quicker but I do them overnight anyway!

For anyone looking o get some more out of their imacs....DO IT!!!
 
No question this was the thing to do! An SSD is the best thing you can do for any computer. Glad you're enjoying it!
 
nickosbad said:
Hello hello!!!

I've been contemplating replacing my 2010 3.06 i3 imac with a new shiny one as I was experiencing some sluggish performance

In the end I decided that £600 to upgrade to a new imac was not worth it so decided instead to install a 128GB Samsung SSD in an optibay, upgrade my ram to 8GB and fresh install Lion

I did this yesterday and WOW!!! £130 well spent.......this thing flies!!!

It boots up incredibly fast and my apps no longer bounce endlessly when starting....they dont bounce at all!!! I've put all apps and the OS on the SSD and kept the internal HDD as Media storage

Granted....it won't make my handbrake encodes quicker but I do them overnight anyway!

For anyone looking o get some more out of their imacs....DO IT!!!
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Glad you are loving it, hands down an SSD is one of the best things to do, even older machines feel like new without the mechanical bottleneck.
 
How do you go about doing this,say on a new 2012 imac.
How do you put the os onto it and apps.
is it an easy thing to do,curious about this.

ian
 
Anyone this day and age still buying old mechanical hard drives are not thinking straight. SSD is a no-brainer. Anything else, even a Fusion Drive is just a punishment to your computer.
 
Welcome to the club!

I replaced my 1st gen 17"MBP with a 2010 21.5" iMac (with the 3.2GHz i3) last November, and plopped a 120GB Corsair SSD in it (that had been in the MBP) as well as added RAM for 8GB total. A far, far better value than buying the new iMac, which doesn't even offer a pure SSD option on the 21.5". Personally, I will never operate a machine that has an internal HD in it again.


maiden666 said:
How do you go about doing this,say on a new 2012 imac.
How do you put the os onto it and apps.
is it an easy thing to do,curious about this.

ian
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Go to iFixit and on step 9, they remove the hard drive, which you would replace with an SSD and then work backwards to put it back together. Don't forget to tape the screen back on.

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iMac+Intel+21.5-Inch+EMC+2544+Teardown/11936/1
 
This is the reason Im holding off buying a new Imac..i have a old Imac and old pc that both use ssd harddrives...the difference is unreal.
 
I meant having one has a external drive on the new 2012 iMac.
Having the OS and apps on the external ssd,and files and folders on the mac.

Ian
 
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