And there’s still about a $1200 difference between a MacPro and an iMac. Also, there’s not much of a premium for installation services over the cost of the bare parts, just over $200. So, what did we learn today? Well, for starters, 480GB SSD drives are fracking expensive. Commercial-grade spinning hard drives have an average lifespan of about 5 years, so mine was probably nearing the end of its life. However, I was starting to feel a little uneasy about the internal hard drive, a 500 GB, 7200 RPM model from Seagate. That comes to $2189.97 for the upgrades, and a whopping total of: $5687.97. Now it’s a year later and the iMac continues to perform admirably for a machine of its age.
#Internal hard drive for imac 2010 install#
Ordering the upgrade parts from OWC (because it’s pretty easy to install drives and RAM in a MacPro) gives the following: A base level Quad Core MacPro with 27″ Apple LED display is $3498. Sounds like we’re heading into MacPro territory, doesn’t it? Well, let’s see. Add the $1999 for the i5 Quad Core 27″ iMac, and you get $4414. So is it worth it? Just for kicks I priced out what an eSATA port, 3TB hard drive, 480GB SSD and 16GB of RAM upgrade would cost. Of course the iMac can be shipped build to order from Apple with a 2TB drive, or an SSD drive, but not both at the same time. For flat out noticeable speed, an SSD is by far the best upgrade you can make. If that’s not enough, you can also add an eSATA port, as well as up to three internal SSD drives. Other World Computing offers a turnkey upgrade program for the iMac, and recently added a 3TB hard drive upgrade option to the 2010 27″ iMac. Rather than spend a few hundred dollars to get the drive replaced, or using an external FireWire drive to boot the iMac, I decided to replace the drive with a. This kit offers you with two screwdrivers, two suction cups, and other useful gear to remove the current drive in your 2009 or 2010 iMac. My iMacs hard drive was recently borked (I was getting node errors and i/o errors when I ran fsck in single-user mode, and I couldnt format and reinstall OS X), so I had to replace it. And the biggest need when working with video or photography is storage space. OWC / Other World Computings Complete Hard Drive Upgrade Kit lets you upgrade the storage drive in an iMac by providing you with the necessary tools. It’s more than capable of doing some serious creative work, video editing, or photography.īut, because of its all in one nature, the iMac is a difficult beast to upgrade.
#Internal hard drive for imac 2010 full#
With the latest 27″ iMac, you can get a full range of processors starting at the base model 3.2GHz i3 up to a 2.93GHz Quad i7. Remember the iMac? It’s not an underpowered kid’s computer anymore. With all the focus on iPad and iPhone and MacBooks, it’s easy to forget that Apple makes some pretty powerful desktop computers too.
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