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There is also a kit to put an SSD in place of the factory iMac HDD. For more info, visit their " Turnkey iMac" page.Īnother approach is to remove the slot load optical drive, put it in an external enclosure, and put an SSD or notebook HDD in its place. They'll even put two SSDs inside or the HDD of your choice.
#Imac mid 2010 graphics card replacement install
Other World Computing will install their Mercury Extreme SSD in your 2010 iMac. In a matter of days after the intro of the 'mid 2010' iMac, there were tech companies offering the power and freedom of alternatives to the factory drives. "Life finds a way." (Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park 1993) In the graphs above, the OWC SSD was installed inside the iMac. For starters, it's slower than what I consider to be state-of-the-art SSDs such as the OCZ Vertex 2 and OWC Mercury Extreme - both of which have six advanced features lacking on Apple's SSD (to the best of my knowledge). If I was putting an SSD in my 2010 iMac, I would definitely opt for a second drive - most likely an HDD of at least 1TB in size - so that I'm not constricted on how much I can store.Īpple's SSD is not my first choice for an SSD, though. Plus you pay much more per GB for the privilege of having a faster boot drive. However, it provides only a fraction of what the HDDs offer in the way of total space. Obviously, the SSDs are faster than the HDDs in every way. Your iMac may receive a drive made by Hitachi or Seagate or some other company. NOTE: Apple uses more than one manufacturer when it comes to HDDs. SSD OWC = OWC 200GB Mercury Extreme Pro RE SSD (model OWCSSDMXRE200)Ģ56G SSD = Apple 256GB Solid State Drive (model TS256B presumed to be made by Toshiba)ĢTB HDD = Hitachi Deskstar 7K20rpm Hard Disk Drive (model HDS722020ALA330)ġTB HDD = Seagate Barracuda 7200.rpm Hard Disk Drive (model ST31000528AS)