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imac hard drive replaced! - bazookaman - 12-06-2011
Took apart the 27 inch iMac this AM and replaced the hard drive. Not as bad as I thought it would be. Took about 30 minutes. The hardest part was cleaning the screen and glass before reassembly.
Now I am waiting for my clone to clone BACK to my new drive. Effective copy speed 21.3 MB/s. Booooo!
Re: imac hard drive replaced! - pinkoos - 12-06-2011
What'd you slap in there? Hopefully an SSD??
Re: imac hard drive replaced! - bazookaman - 12-06-2011
Heh. I wish. Just replaced it with another 1tb seagate to hopefully overcome the thermal sensor issue. Apparently that's not working b/c the fans are running. But I'll reserve judgement until the hard drive is completely cloned back.
Re: imac hard drive replaced! - Black - 12-06-2011
This morning? Whatdya, get up at 3 AM?
Weren't you the least bit tempted to scratch your phone number on the inside of the glass in case you ever get robbed?
Re: imac hard drive replaced! - bazookaman - 12-06-2011
There was some scrawl on the inside of the glass bezel. Couldn't read it though.
Re: imac hard drive replaced! - C(-)ris - 12-06-2011
If the fans are running it didnt work. Even during a drive clone you shouldn't hear them.
Re: imac hard drive replaced! - bazookaman - 12-06-2011
C(-)ris wrote:
If the fans are running it didnt work. Even during a drive clone you shouldn't hear them.
Thanks Apple!
Re: imac hard drive replaced! - hal - 12-06-2011
is there some trick to installing 3rd party drives on the new macs? I thought they all had built in heat sensors now and any 3rd party drive install would result in raging fans....
Re: imac hard drive replaced! - freeradical - 12-06-2011
If the fans are running all the time, is it a bad thing or not?
Re: imac hard drive replaced! - bazookaman - 12-06-2011
hal wrote:And what exactly is a 3rd party drive? All drives are 3rd party. Apple doesn't make drives. They just make crap to add onto drives that fscks up people's day.
is there some trick to installing 3rd party drives on the new macs? I thought they all had built in heat sensors now and any 3rd party drive install would result in raging fans....
freeradical wrote:It's pretty annoying right now.
If the fans are running all the time, is it a bad thing or not?