I have the same iMac 27" i7 mid-2011 and it is new to me, refurbished, with an extended 2 yr. warranty.
When purchased, according to the specs only had a 1 tb HDD.
The NICE surprise is it also shows a 256gb Apple SSD TS256C installed (along with 8gb < 16 gb RAM and 1gb <2gb RAM on the video card - all surprise upgrades from Mac of all Trades!
ISSUE IS:
On both hard drives it shows
Link Speed = 6 Gigabit
Negotiated Link Speed = 3 gigabit
NOW... could this be reconfigured through a software solution, to run as fast as it should??
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=== Update (01.08.2018) ===
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Again-
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On both hard drives it shows:
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Link Speed = 6 Gigabit
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HOWEVER it shows a
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Negotiated Link Speed = 3 gigabit
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...So clearly if two out of the three cables are supplying 6 GP/S
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And the link speed reads an initial 6 GP/S on both HDD and SSD....
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It would appear that they each have the proper port for that part of the configuration ( if one of them was in the optical Port, a starting link speed of 3GP/S, not 6, would show as the link speed)
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- then there must be a different answer (possibly SOFTWARE configuration answer)?
I have the same iMac 27" i7 mid-2011 and it is new to me, refurbished, with an extended 2 yr. warranty.
When purchased, according to the specs only had a 1 tb HDD.
The NICE surprise is it also shows a 256gb Apple SSD TS256C installed (along with 8gb < 16 gb RAM and 1gb <2gb RAM on the video card - all surprise upgrades from Mac of all Trades!
ISSUE IS:
On both hard drives it shows
Link Speed = 6 Gigabit
Negotiated Link Speed = 3 gigabit
NOW... could this be reconfigured through a software solution, to run as fast as it should??