One mistake and you can easily crack the display. IMacs purchased after 2011 are not that easy to upgrade due to having to remove and replace the display to gain access to the drives. Many owners of 2017/2018/2019- 21″ iMac’s with 1TB HDD’s replaced them with third-party SSD’s within months of purchase due the very slow and poor performance caused by the extremely slow drives. By having a current time-machine backup, failed drives can be replaced and data restored without any loss of data. Of course, the answer to securing your iMac data is to run Time-Machine backups continuously. If you see any “HDD” or “Fusion Drive” you know you have the mechanical HDD ( Hard-Disk-Drive) that is prone to failure How to Protect My Data from loss?
What you want to see in ONLY “SSD” and nothing else The following is a Fusion Drive …it has a small 128GB SSD and a 1TB or bigger HDD Or Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility
Or About This Mac > System Report > Storage What you are looking out for is if any of the drives are referred to as “HDD” or “Fusion Drives” Q – How can I tell what kind of drive my iMac Has?ĭepending on the Mac OS, there are a few ways. It is not the SSD component that is prone to failure but the HDD component is. Fusion drives incorporate a small SSD in combination with a much larger (1TB, 2TB, 3TB) HDD (Hard-Disk-Drives). Q – But aren’t Fusion drives the same as SSD’s?Ī – Yes and No. If you have a 2019 model iMac or earlier with a “Fusion Drive” or “Hard-Disk-Drive”, we recommend replacing with an SSD ASAP as the drive could fail at any minute.Īpple have been shipping iMacs with SSD (Solid-State-Drives) since 2020 due to the high failure rates of HDD (Hard-Disk-Drives) and Fusion drives in pre-2020 iMacs which were only 1 or 2 years old (and covered by AppleCare)
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