iMac Hard Drive Advice...

[cwo]

Hello,

I was going to get my hard drive replaced due to the recall...
But I wanted a bigger capacity hard drive than 1 tb. The Apple reseller wanted to charge me 180.00 for the installation of the hard drive then another 90.00 for data transfer if I gave them a different hard drive.

I have the late 2009 model i7 27' iMac and debating what to do.

Any Fusion Style drives on the market that I could use on this computer? or better off just buying a SSD and storing any files to an external for work.

Also worth just doing the installation myself with the hard drive? Just thinking the 180.00 is the cost of a decent hdd...

Thanks again,
cwo

 

[Hungry&Foolish]

Do it yourself. Buy an ssd, and iMac upgrade kit from OWC.

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http://blog.macsales.com/13606-owc-introduces-diy-kit-to-add-ssd-to-2011-27-apple-imac
Watch the video a few times, Not that easy, but not rocket science either. Hope this helps.

 

[S.B.G]

You can get 1TB HDD's for a lot cheaper than $180. Here is one for half that.

Personally, I'd go with an SSD, iFixit.com has superb tutorials, photos, videos and step-by-step instructions on how to do it. You can get the kits from them, OWC and other places. You can get a 500GB SSD for under $400 now, so they're finally getting to a point where consumers can get more storage for their dollar.