Installing a SSD drive into a mid-2007 iMac

I have a mid-2007 iMac with a 2.4 GHz Core2Duo processor and despite the fact that it is already six years old, it still does a good job. However, compared to a friend’s recent MacBook Air with a solid state disk (SSD) it felt sluggish when opening programmes and loading larger documents.

So, I thought it would be worthwhile to replace the old spinning hard disk drive with an SSD, instead of buying a new computer. I still like the display of the iMac. Hence, I got myself a Samsung 840 SATA drive, as it came with a USB cable and bracket hard drive holder.

It actually wasn’t that difficult to replace the hard drive in my iMac. Of course I can give no guarantee that this works for you as well. Here are the steps I took:

So far I am really happy with the new SSD. Applications are opening much faster and overall the computer feels much snappier. It looks like it can serve me quite a little longer.

Here are a few pictures of the surgery:

iMac with glass panel and bezel removed
Display and hard drive removed
New SSD and old HDD
Screen shot of the new system preferences

Citation

For attribution, please cite this work as:

Markus Gesmann (Aug 13, 2013) Installing a SSD drive into a mid-2007 iMac . Retrieved from https://magesblog.com/post/2013-08-13-installing-ssd-drive-into-mid-2007-imac/

BibTeX citation:

@misc{ 2013-installing-a-ssd-drive-into-a-mid-2007-imac,
 author = { Markus Gesmann },
 title = { Installing a SSD drive into a mid-2007 iMac },
 url = { https://magesblog.com/post/2013-08-13-installing-ssd-drive-into-mid-2007-imac/ },
 year = { 2013 }
 updated = { Aug 13, 2013 }
}

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