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Hi, I was reading for the past few days on your website and as much as I read, I really get confused, I might being asking a repeated questions here but I thought it is better to put it all here and get myself on the right track before touching my two iMacs… I have two iMac 27” EMCD 2639 with i7, one machine has only a 3TB HDD (no fusion drive) which is working fine (only it is now a bit slow at boot especially, this machine is in use for large video files and large VMware Fusion virtual machines, as I said it is slow at boot but after that it is fine…), the other machine has a fusion drive but the 3TB HDD is faulty and almost dead… My plan was to upgrade the faulty drive on the 2nd machine with a SSD using one of your upgrade bundle and move the SSD blade to the 1st machine to be used as a fusion or dual hard disk, so: Q1) is this going to work? I mean moving the SSD blade? Q2) in your upgrade bundle there is no 2TB option although you are offering a 2TB SSD in the parts section, does that mean it is only limited to max. of 1TB? Q3) If I just replace the faulty 3TB hard disk with another HDD (I have access to many), do I need the thermal sensor with the HDD, is there a way to tell if there is a thermal sensor in the HDD… finally, I understood that upgrading to SSD is even better than having a fusion drive, which one should I choose, it is not about the cost at all, it is about the practical, safer and reliable way to go… I will wait for your reply before doing any thing, sorry if it looks long or repeated and thank you…
Before you alter the Fusion Drive’ed system you really need to break the Fusion Drive set following this guide: How to split up a Fusion Drive. Frankly I would just move the good 3TB drive over to the Fusion Drive’ed system. As far as your replacing the HDD to a SSD you can use any 2.5” SSD. But if you really want performance for video editing or VM sessions you may want to look at getting a large blade SSD instead of the SATA SSD drive. You really need to use the OWC thermal sensor if you want the system to last. Fan control software is not that good I’ve seen to many systems killed by it.
Hi, You know what its better to upgrade both imac with the ssd storage its better and durable than swapping it. Then buy HDD enclosure to transfer or make your drive as an external.
