imac hard drive replaced!

[bazookaman]

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!

[pinkoos]

What'd you slap in there? Hopefully an SSD??

[bazookaman]

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.

[Black]

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?

[bazookaman]

There was some scrawl on the inside of the glass bezel. Couldn't read it though.

[C(-)ris]

If the fans are running it didnt work. Even during a drive clone you shouldn't hear them.

[bazookaman]

C(-)ris wrote:
If the fans are running it didnt work. Even during a drive clone you shouldn't hear them.

Thanks Apple!

[hal]

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]

If the fans are running all the time, is it a bad thing or not?

[bazookaman]

hal wrote:
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....

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.

freeradical wrote:
If the fans are running all the time, is it a bad thing or not?

It's pretty annoying right now.