![]() Can the built-in SSD be ripped out or does it have to be replaced with another SSD? IIRC, it’s the TBW (terabytes written) that drives SSDs going bad, and if there’s no access I wouldn’t think that it would degenerate further. ![]() I’d imaging if nothing were accessing it it would still have a pretty long service life, though the extra drive showing up in the drive queue would be annoying. It also seems to be saying that it has 100% of its spares, so why they’re indicating it’s 69% used is a mystery - I thought the only thing contributing to an SSD’s death was writes damaging frames causing exhaustion of the spare frames. The SSD portion of the fusion drive is still operable and is only 69% used (according to TTP). Is that some kind of proprietary NVMe slot kind of thing? It’s sort of amazing how far top of the line iMac 5Ks have come in just three years - the 20 were pretty similar, but my 2020 is scads better.Īnyway, here’s hoping that OWC will upgrade the 2017 - I’m just not looking forward to doing this job by myself.Īlso, what’s a “blade SSD”? I’m not familiar with the term. I’m hoping they just didn’t update the web page, but it’s tough to imagine that they would’ve just left it for that long.ĭidn’t iMacs used to have magnetic screen attachment, and wasn’t that replaced by adhesive tape at some point? Maybe that was back when they were magnetically sealed. I followed Matt’s link and it mentioned an OWC upgrade service, but they only mentioned 20 iMacs, and mine is a 2017 iMac 5K. What kinda cheapo drives are they putting in these machines anyway? They were both purchased as (at time time) as top of the line iMac 5Ks, after all.Īnyone know of a Mac repair shot who will do a disk upgrade like this? I’m just down the road from OWC. This kinda cheeses me off - the 3 TB HD in my 2014 5K iMac died after around the same amount of time - 4 years. I suppose I could have Apple simply replace the HD, but in 2018 that ran $271 for an out-of-warranty 2014 5K iMac, and like I said TTP says the SSD component of the fusion drive is 69% used (though it does say there’s 100% available spare).Īnyone have any advise? Pull it apart, toss the 128 GB SSD, replace the 3TB HD with a 4 TB SSD (or can you just replace the 128 GB SSD with the 4 TB and toss the HD)? Just how hard are these puppies to open up and replace components anyhow? I was thinking of the 4.0TB OWC 6G SSD and HDD Kit for 27" iMac (2012 - 2019), but I’ve never opened an iMac and at $609.99 - unfortunately that’s nowhere near an M1 iMac’s price if you add Apple outrageously priced SSDs. TTP 14 says the SSD component is 69% used, so it looks like it’s time to replace the hard disk. The Family iMac (a 4.2 ghz core-i7, 64 GB RAM, 3 TB Fusion, Radeon Pro 580 8 GB) has a failing Fusion drive - the HD is throwing SMART errors. ![]()
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