You've already been given valuable info here.Ĭould you please state whether your planned purchase is a 21,5" or 27". But if money is a factor and the iMac is usable otherwise, it could at least be a usable starter machine until she can bill some jobs and buy a newer one.
Tempting to skimp on that, but you want a clean bond so the screen doesn't drop off laterĪll of this said, yeah, a new iMac is going to be MUCH faster than a 2013 iMac, even with a new SSD inside it. Took me about 2 hours, but a lot of that was time spent removing the old adhesive so I could apply the new adhesive strips cleanly. I used an iFixit kit which came with everything I needed except my replacement SATA SSD. More about all this here: how-long-will-the-ssd-in-my-fusion-drive-lastĪnyway, I ended up opening up the Mac and putting in an SATA drive, just as OP is contemplating - but not because of issues with the HDD, but rather because the SSD was about to fail.Īs for the actual procedure, it's a PITA but totally doable for someone with a little technical skill, time and the right tools and materials. Mine was 128GB, but I think they went as low as 32GB on some of them.
That's compounded by the criminally tiny SSDs Apple used on these. Turns out the SSD part gets absolutely hammered with use because data gets shuttled on and off it constantly in the normal functioning of a Fusion Drive. I had a Fusion Drive in my last iMac and had to open it up because the SSD was reaching critical wear levels according to a couple utilities I used like DriveDx. Click to expand.Before you install the OS on it, I'd check the health of the SSD.
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