Its development began with using the best flash storage components and technology available. The fifth generation of Mercury Electra 6G SSD was built to start fast and stay fast at over 500MB/s sustained. However, those drives are not designed to deliver consistent, sustained speeds over their capacity rating, which results in a dramatic slowdown to even hard drive speeds under demanding use. Add an SSD to your hard drive-equipped iMac to experience faster booting, near instant application launches and lightning-fast data transfer speeds.Įven though many SSDs use low cost, less robust components in their design, they can still offer enticing short-term bust speeds which are perfectly suitable for light-duty uses. Note: StayPuft suggested "cloning" your drive rather than simply copying the contents.Īnother option could be to format the new SSD as your OS X boot drive and leave the document files on the original internal spinner.OWC Bundle kit made with Mercury Electra 6G, 3.5-inch to 2.5-inch adapter, thermal sensor and installation tools to swap the main HDD for SSD on 21.5 and 27-inch iMacs 2011Įxperience the extreme performance of an OWC SSD upgrade with this easy DIY SSD and hard drive replacement kit. Is that storage device in your iMac a regular spinning hard drive? Thunderbolt storage could be a relatively inexpensive choice for you if you compare it to the cost of a new iMac. When we say that external Thunderbolt storage is not worth the premium price (for non-RAID storage), we are often comparing it to USB 3.0 alternatives. There appear to be a limited number of TB1 enclosures available but the TB2 (>$) version is plentiful if you like "future proofing" your storage. Although a two-drive enclosure would cost you another $227.50, your performance increase would be astounding. I just found a 480GB SATA 6Gb/s SSD for under $120 at their site. Check the offerings at OWC () to see some good options. I agree that the USB 2.0 data rate is too slow to take advantage of an SSD.Īn external Thunderbolt enclosure equipped with an SSD could improve your iMac for a reasonable price. USB 3.0 drives work fine with 2.0 ports but they function at 2.0 speeds.
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