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iMac Hard Drive upgrade

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julienko3

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Can I upgrade the hard drive on one of these? What is a good recommendation and the max I could get - not from Apple.

thank you
 
I was thinking the current 24" iMac, but an old thread just popped up about swapping drives, so I'm all good.

Thanks
 
I wondered this too. I called Apple earlier and the guy said Apple could certainly upgrade the HDD but the max. they could put in my iMac was 320GB 😱

To be honest though, I could barely hear him. He said all I had to do was take my iMac into an Apple store and they would arrange the upgrade. Is this true, is it really that simply and how much do they roughly charge??

I really could do with a 1TB but do not fancy doing it myself!!
 
KettyKrueger said:
I wondered this too. I called Apple earlier and the guy said Apple could certainly upgrade the HDD but the max. they could put in my iMac was 320GB 😱

To be honest though, I could barely hear him. He said all I had to do was take my iMac into an Apple store and they would arrange the upgrade. Is this true, is it really that simply and how much do they roughly charge??

I really could do with a 1TB but do not fancy doing it myself!!
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they would probably charge an arm and a leg, on top of that they probably wouldnt put a hard drive in there that you bring in. you would have to buy one of their hard drives which are probably grossly overpriced.
 
There are no 2 TB 3.5" drives yet. The biggest available is 1.5 TB, although 2 TB are on the near horizon. I'm not sure what the current max for 2.5" drives is, though.

I believe the iMac takes a 3.5" SATA drive.
 
Yeah, that's why I say yet. I can't wait. It'd be cool to get two tees in my iMac, although forget about trying to back that up. There's no way I could afford two of them.
 
BlueRevolution said:
Yeah, that's why I say yet. I can't wait. It'd be cool to get two tees in my iMac, although forget about trying to back that up. There's no way I could afford two of them.
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It's not so expensive. It'll be around 200$. SSD will cost much, much more, maybe thousands
 
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