Imac 2011 Hybrid Drive

Apple announced it will be including hybrid drive technology in its new imac and mac mini desktops which will offer flash like performance with up to 3tb of hard drive capacity.

Imac 2011 hybrid drive.

My machine is a 27 mid 2011 imac with a 3 4 ghz processor and 16gb of ram. I purchased a 128gb vertex4 ssd from ocz. 500gb 2 5 sshd solid state hybrid drive for apple macbook pro 15 inch early 2011 17 inch early 2011 13 inch early 2011 laptops 5 out of 5 stars 2 41 99 41. I bought it with a 1tb hard drive which i recently considered upgrading to a 3tb hard drive but decided against given the fan control issues with the temperature sensor and the special connector used on the factory drive.

Macworld senior contributors rob griffiths and kirk mcelhearn replaced their mac s stock hard drive with a seagate momentus xt hybrid drive which has 4gb of flash storage and a 500gb hard drive. My recommendation would be to buy a big capacity hybrid 3 5 drive with the sensor kit to replace the main failing hdd plus a 512gb ssd connected to the second sata to use as the primary boot drive. 1 16 of 784 results for imac 2011 hard drive owc 2 0tb hdd upgrade kit for all 2011 imac models. 4 8 out of 5 stars 54.

Owc 1tb ssd upgrade bundle for 2011 imacs owc mercury electra 1 0tb 6g ssd adaptadrive 2 5 to 3 5 drive converter bracket in line digital thermal sensor cable installation tools. A hybrid drive is a single drive that combines a ssd with a hard drive. These seem to mostly max out at about 8gb of ssd but can cost under 100 for a 1tb 8gb model.