@wirelessness: your discovery of using the dual adapter is terrific! May I know how you connect the cables to the two SSD?
Installed new SSD in 27in 2011 iMac
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@wirelessness: your discovery of using the dual adapter is terrific! May I know how you connect the cables to the two SSD?
wirelessness
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I abandoned the fairly useless optical drive in favor of two SSD drives and I routed the the 3rd SATA port out the Memory Door for use as an eSATA port. You want more info you can check out the DIY thread I posted awhile back.
Fan issues?
Hi -
I have read several posts regarding temperature sensors/fan speed regulators that are compromised when replacing the HD with an SSD. Have you had any issues with this? Thanks for your input.
T
Hi -
I have read several posts regarding temperature sensors/fan speed regulators that are compromised when replacing the HD with an SSD. Have you had any issues with this? Thanks for your input.
T
If you only replace the stock HDD with an SSD, you don't need to worry about temperatures.
Thanks! Do you have a link to instructions? ( all I find are instructions for the total teardown to ADD an SSD )
Thanks
Any of those instructions are fine. You only need to follow the 1st part to take the display out in order to access the HDD. Once there, it is just a simple swap.
And what about temperature issues if I install the SSD along the HDD? I read that in the new 2011 imac, Apple installed a firmware in the disk itself to handle heat issues so that if you install a new disk with no firmware from Apple than you're in trouble?? Is this true?
By installing a new, non-apple HDD alongside the SSD, the iMac can no longer read the new HDD's temperature and it assumes it is a SSD which doesn't need extra cooling and therefore keeps the HDD fan to the minimum.
This could potentially be dangerous for the new HDD which could overheat and potentially fail in time for this reason. That is why a software add-on like HDD Fan Control is recommended which reads the temperature via SMART and adjusts the fan speed accordingly.
Thanks! In my case it's the other way around. The original is the HDD installed by Apple(2TB) and the SSD is the addition. What than?
By using a Y-Splitter power cable, you will effectively disable the temperature monitoring on the apple HDD as well, unless you use an apple power loom capable of providing an extra connector to power up the SSD. This would bring you in the same scenario described above.
Unless, your SSD reports a riciculous fixed temperature, like my Vertex 3 does
I made a simple fix for this that sets the HDD fan speed to 1500rpm at boot time and after waking from sleep:
http://exirion.net/ssdfanctrl
It's a tiny little daemon that handles this.
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Ssd + hdd
I found it easier to just install an SSD drive as a second drive and leave the 1TB drive installed as is.
Once the SSD was installed, I turned the 1TB drive as a secondary drive for data storage.
Here is a tutorial on how to add an SSD to the iMac 2011:
http://www.btobey.com/learn/imac-ssd-install.php
I found it easier to just install an SSD drive as a second drive and leave the 1TB drive installed as is.
Once the SSD was installed, I turned the 1TB drive as a secondary drive for data storage.
Here is a tutorial on how to add an SSD to the iMac 2011:
http://www.btobey.com/learn/imac-ssd-install.php
c613m
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Unless, your SSD reports a riciculous fixed temperature, like my Vertex 3 does
I made a simple fix for this that sets the HDD fan speed to 1500rpm at boot time and after waking from sleep:
http://exirion.net/ssdfanctrl
It's a tiny little daemon that handles this.
Is it possible to remove this?