{"id":8656,"date":"2019-04-26T12:38:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T16:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=8656"},"modified":"2019-05-02T12:01:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T16:01:58","slug":"another-imac-transplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2019\/04\/another-imac-transplant\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Imac Transplant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/imac.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/imac.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"215\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8551\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just completed a second Spinning hard drive (Seagate 500GB 7200rpm) to Solid State Drive transplant in an older Imac.  This time it was a 21.5&#8243; mid2011 Imac, and it was different from the 21.5&#8243; late2015 model I did first.<br \/>\nAll in all it took about 35 minutes and the next one will go faster.<br \/>\nThe machine was powered down, unplugged  and left to cool for a time.  The screen cover was attached by magnets this time, not double sided adhesive&#8230; so it came off quite quickly. The screen itself had nine Torx10 screws holding it in.  I had only a Torx9 bit but it worked well.  The supermagnets that held the screen cover on did attract both bit and screw a lot.<br \/>\nThe display came out of the case enough to start disconnecting four ribbon cables, only one of which had a latch mechanism.  The Drive itself came out with only two torx8 screws, the sata power and data cables removed.<br \/>\nThe 240GB SSD went in, connected to the cables and just left in the cavity unsecured and with no special temperature sensor for fan control that many articlse write about.<br \/>\nThe four ribbon cables went back in without issue, the display reinserted and screwed in and the screen cover clipped on without issue.<br \/>\nPower up ran normally if maybe just a little faster.<br \/>\nPreviously the 240GB SSD drive was in an external USB3 case (upto 5Gbps), now it is connected internally  to a SATA3 connection (upto 6Gbps)&#8230; so if anything, it might be just a little bit faster.<br \/>\npowerup sound to logo 20seconds<br \/>\npowerup sound to login 30 seconds.<br \/>\nNot bad at all.<\/p>\n<p>This should give the Imac a longer life, especially since it will now run cooler without the spinning drive inside, and use less power.<br \/>\nNow we can start looking at another half dozen machines in the near future.<br \/>\n * updated 2019 May 02 * completed two more mid-2011 21.5&#8243; Imacs with the magnets without any issues, both in under 30 minutes each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just completed a second Spinning hard drive (Seagate 500GB 7200rpm) to Solid State Drive transplant in an older Imac. This time it was a 21.5&#8243; mid2011 Imac, and it was different from the 21.5&#8243; late2015 model I did first. All in all it took about 35 minutes and the next one will go faster. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8656"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8672,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8656\/revisions\/8672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}