Unlike like most of the Windows PCs I worked on during my IT career, you can’t just simply open up an iMac and swap out the hard drive. If you want to read more about Fusion Drives, checkout this wikipedia link:
These 2 drives appear and act as one volume on your iMac and the system takes care of moving/caching your most frequently used files onto the faster SSD drive. My iMac 27 Late 2013 had the Fusion drive which is basically a 1TB Seagate Hard Drive paired with a 128GB SSD Drive(for the late 2015 iMac models Apple has reduced the size of the SSD drives to only 24GB for the 1TB combo). 🙁 I tried booting into Recovery Mode (turn power on and the hold Command + R) and running Disk Utility, but it was never able to repair the drive. On Cyber Monday, it finally it “Gave up the Ghost” as they say and would no longer boot. I was having some previous random issues on my iMac where Chrome would lock up and sometimes the whole system would lock up, But, I kept blaming it on the 50 – 60 tabs I usually had open in Chrome 😉
Well, I really wasn’t planning on doing an iFusion Hard Drive Replacement with SSD post, but my hard drive failed earlier this week!
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