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27-inch iMac Disassembly Reveals Difficult Second SSD Install

You’re interested in a 27-inch iMac, but you’d rather fare for that additional solid state drive from a third party manufacturer in hopes to save money and gain performance speeds. Well hold your horses there Mac guy, we’ve got some disappointing news you’d be interested to hear regarding that bullet proof plan of yours.

OWC tore down a 27-inch iMac and didn’t like the results.

The good news is that the SSD bay available in the new iMacs holds a standard 2.5” form factor drive, which means you can install a high-performance OWC Mercury Extreme SSD for the speed advantage over Apple’s SSDs.

The bad news is that, unless your Mid 2010 iMac originally came with an Apple SSD, there’s no graceful way to install an OWC one. The appropriate mounting bracket and connector cables are nowhere to be found on the non-SSD models.

If you get the additional SSD in your system and it dies you can replace it. If you don’t get the additional SSD, the necessary components for mounting will be missing.

[via MacRumors]

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