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Filed under: Desktops, Hacks, iMac

SSDs, or solid-state drives, have been all the fury in portables these days. They come in MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs without delay from Apple (with the suitable upgrades, of course), and we’ve seen people upgrade their old-school automatic drives, hack in a second drive to take value of the speed of a glossy latest SSD, oreven put one in an AppleTV.

Desktop computers have been customarily left out of the solid-state love-fest. After all, 3.5″ drives have been customarily reduction costly than a 2.5″ expostulate of a identical capacity, and desktop machines have been reduction disposed to repairs to the hoop given they have been customarily still when running.

However, there have been times when a solid-state ascent to a desktop appurtenance creates sense. For Jason Siebert, this was one of those times. When the expostulate on his 24″ iMac proposed display the tell-tale signs of a expostulate on the margin of death, he motionless to rip the appurtenance detached and throw in a not as big & faster SSD, and operate his Drobo for outmost storage. Installation was elementary for the many part, but a little adjustments had to be done to concede for installing a 2.5″ expostulate in the space of a 3.5″ drive, and a little finagling of the expostulate due to a too-short SATA cable.

The outcome is a flattering gratifying speed enlarge when it comes to opening up applications, and generally when using a practical machine. Check out the designation instructions and initial impressions on Jason’s website.

Any upgrades similar to this should be achieved usually by learned users, and of march it mayvoid your warranty. Proceed at your own risk.

TUAWPutting an SSD ascent in a 24″ iMac creatively appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 02 November 2009 08:00:00 EST. Please see the terms for operate of feeds.

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