When removing the power supply, you mention there's two cables, but only show one being removed. It appears the lower cable just slipped out on it's own. Might be useful to mention that as it could confuse someone unfamiliar. I would also have mentioned draining the power by holding the power button down for 5-10 seconds after unplugging the iMac. There's a lot of juice stored in those capacitors. Maybe wear rubber gloves.

The microphone hole was nicely covered by the adhesive strip making it useless. That can be fixed when reattaching the screen after it falls off on a hot day.

Correct me if I am wrong, alternatively, you can use an adaptor for the most common M.2 SSD's that mac M2 socket

Your video documentation is the best "how to do" video I've ever seen! Thanks a lot 🙏

Excelente vídeo me suscribo 👍

Good morning, your tutorial seems very interesting to me, can you tell me the iMac 27" type that you have used. I have the iMac 27" late 2015

Thank you so much.

Thanks! Shouldn't you clarify that this is for the *blade* SSD and not the main drive? The main drive is significantly easier to replace.

@skrambledagg

3 ай бұрын

the other drive is an HDD

Very usefull video. Thanks! I have a question. Do i have to reinstall the OS after changing or all boot files located on HDD? iMac late 2017 with 3TB Fusion drive. And what about files on hdd should I backup them before changing?

great job..question what kind of encloser I need if I want to used this SSD like external drive ? can you help please ?

Hello pls is iMac late 2020 SSD upgradeable

Hello there Q there its a possibility to add a m.2 with thunderbolt and run Mac os whit it externally Please help

Can you please run a Black magic speed test for this brand of ssd please... i mite buy this one,,it looks good!

Would this work on the late 2015 imac 27’ model as well/

Based on the fact that the pcie is 2.0 bottleneck is there a significant differance compared to sata ssd?

Hi. Could you please let me know if I should "unmount" the Fusion Drive first before the upgrade? And will I be able to format the iMac SSD and HHD after the replacement? Thank you.

Dose all iMac 5K 2017, include 1TB HDD only model, has PCIE SSD blade slot on motherboard?

If I add this to my Mac (doesn't currently have an SSD in that slot), and keep my HDD, will it show as having two drives when I boot up?

Excelente video! Cómo puedo saber si mi imac tiene slot para m.2? Es el mismo modelo pero viene solo con Disco Duro

@AngelAmayax

8 ай бұрын

-Necesitas un adaptador, por default no tiene un m2, pero es muy barato.

@paultinajero9733

2 ай бұрын

​@@AngelAmayaxhola bro, tu sabes cuánto puede valer una imac 2014 retina 5k core i5 24gb ram 27" con cristal craquelado?

So much easier to simply cut a door in the back using a Dremel.

To remove SSD: Disassemble the entire computer. Sort of like removing the engine in your car to replace the stereo.

Do not fall for KingSpec HDD. The SLC cache or whatever is making the speed tests look nice does not work under the load the Mac puts it under. Terrible 100% CPU when idea, 80% in kernel, while R/W pefromace goes to

Why keep the old HDD ?

@pedroblancou

4 ай бұрын

Ununderstandable. The SSD will only function as a buffer. S:

is it support M.2 SSD gen3 or gen4?

@estebanleiva3772

Ай бұрын

Same question here, did you get any answer?

@TheMillerChen

Ай бұрын

@@estebanleiva3772 not yet. still waiting

The engineers that designed this should be required to do the process a 100 times then the next version will be done right.

@jameslaumeyer4214

6 ай бұрын

Broski I’ve got an engineering degree and had no problem taking it apart and putting it back together. It’s a well designed machine that is hard to screw up unless you’re sloppy/tired and crack the screen.

Too bad Apple couldn't manage to put the SSD on the front side of the motherboard. Would save like an hour of work and significantly reduce the chance of breaking something in the process. Their designs since 2012 have gone downhill significantly, Macbook Air was good till 2017. I think that will be my last Mac, after owning many since 1986.

Before looking videos like this I had a slow but valuable iMac 27" late 2015 ... Now I have a useless no value brick!😮‍💨

@tokagehideto

2 ай бұрын

I hope apple is paying you well 😘

I thought it would be a easy process 😢