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Hexley

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I have a Mid 2007 20-inch iMac Core 2 Duo with a PATA optical disk drive (MAT****ADVD-R UJ-85J) and and a SATA 3Gb/s hard disk drive.

Seeming the SATA revision only hits 3Gb/s I think it is a waste to put in any SSD drive, or am I wrong?

As an alternative I was thinking of sticking either a WD RE or Black HDD with 4TB. Either drive would be able to deliver at least 150MB/s.

For the PATA optical bay perhaps a HDD caddy that connects 2.5-inch SATA HDD to PATA connections. But then again, why bother?

Your thoughts are most welcome. :D
 
Nope, definitely not a waste. I would get it if you can, you will see big performance gains.
 
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