'''Hold up - this is pre 2011 so no SATA III support :-(.'''
You need an old drive with full auto-sense compatibility. The new drives NO LONGER have it outside of the Seagate desktop drives (non-SSHD). Your choice is an old WD (with no guarantee if it fails under warranty, it’ll have the legacy support) or a Seagate 3.5” hard drive.
What I would do is dump the optical drive for one of those 2.5” optical drive HD adapters and install an SSD. Once that’s done, put a 2TB hard drive in place of the stock hard drive for storage. Most people do not use the optical drive, so you can typically remove it and buy an external safely unless you or this person is one of the few who uses it and can alert you to the fact they need it intact. Most people don’t care and either never fix it if it doesn’t hamper the boot process or throw another hard drive in when it croaks. It’s primarily why professionals expect it to be shot and come prepared. I can safely tell you the percentage of people who care is few and far between from the ones who either have machines with them (but never use it) or it has issues like a rough eject problem and the drive is just permanently dead.
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I’m at a point myself where I have older machines that shipped with them where they work, but I leave them be unless they fail - in which case, in goes a blanking plate if I can find one otherwise I go through my used pulls if I have one that works. Spring loaded front panel machines just end up with the bad drive being removed with no replacement so I don’t hear it’s broken because of the one time someone needs it, just in case they don’t leave the issue be until it’s replaced.
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Refer to [guide|9070|this guide] to dump the optical drive for a boot SSD and [guide|9028|this guide] for the hard drive.
'''Hold up - this is pre 2011 so no SATA III support :-(.'''
You need an old drive with full auto-sense compatibility. The new drives NO LONGER have it outside of the Seagate desktop drives (non-SSHD). Your choice is an old WD (with no guarantee if it fails under warranty, it’ll have the legacy support) or a Seagate 3.5” hard drive.
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What I would do is dump the optical drive for one of those 2.5” optical drive HD adapters and install an SSD. Once that’s done, put a 2TB hard drive in place of the stock hard drive for storage. Most people do not use the optical drive, so you can typically remove it and buy an external safely unless you or this person is one of the few who uses it and can alert you to the fact they need it and they know it works. Most people don’t care and either never fix it if it doesn’t hamper the boot process or throw another hard drive in when it croaks. It’s primarily why professionals expect it to be shot and come prepared. I can safely tell you the percentage of people who care is few and far between from the ones who either have machines with them (but never use it) or it has issues like a rough eject problem and the drive is just permanently dead.
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What I would do is dump the optical drive for one of those 2.5” optical drive HD adapters and install an SSD. Once that’s done, put a 2TB hard drive in place of the stock hard drive for storage. Most people do not use the optical drive, so you can typically remove it and buy an external safely unless you or this person is one of the few who uses it and can alert you to the fact they need it intact. Most people don’t care and either never fix it if it doesn’t hamper the boot process or throw another hard drive in when it croaks. It’s primarily why professionals expect it to be shot and come prepared. I can safely tell you the percentage of people who care is few and far between from the ones who either have machines with them (but never use it) or it has issues like a rough eject problem and the drive is just permanently dead.
Refer to [guide|9070|this guide] to dump the optical drive for a boot SSD and [guide|9028|this guide] for the hard drive.
'''Hold up - this is pre 2011 so no SATA III support :-(.'''
You need an old drive with full auto-sense compatibility. The new drives NO LONGER have it outside of the Seagate desktop drives (non-SSHD). Your choice is an old WD (with no guarantee if it fails under warranty, it’ll have the legacy support) or a Seagate 3.5” hard drive.
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What I would do is dump the optical drive for one of those 2.5” HDD adapters for an SSD and put a 2TB hard drive in place of the stock hard drive for storage. Most people do not use the optical drive, so you can typically remove it and buy an external safely unless you or this person is one of the few who uses it and can alert you to the fact they need it and they know it works. Most people don’t care and either never fix it if it doesn’t hamper the boot process or throw another hard drive in when it croaks. It’s primarily why professionals expect it to be shot and come prepared. I can safely tell you the percentage of people who care is few and far between from the ones who either have machines with them (but never use it) or it has issues like a rough eject problem and the drive is just permanently dead.
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What I would do is dump the optical drive for one of those 2.5” optical drive HD adapters and install an SSD. Once that’s done, put a 2TB hard drive in place of the stock hard drive for storage. Most people do not use the optical drive, so you can typically remove it and buy an external safely unless you or this person is one of the few who uses it and can alert you to the fact they need it and they know it works. Most people don’t care and either never fix it if it doesn’t hamper the boot process or throw another hard drive in when it croaks. It’s primarily why professionals expect it to be shot and come prepared. I can safely tell you the percentage of people who care is few and far between from the ones who either have machines with them (but never use it) or it has issues like a rough eject problem and the drive is just permanently dead.
Refer to [guide|9070|this guide] to dump the optical drive for a boot SSD and [guide|9028|this guide] for the hard drive.
'''Hold up - this is pre 2011 so no SATA III support :-(.'''
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You need an old drive with full auto-sense compatibility. The new drives NO LONGER have it outside of the Seagate desktop drives. Your choice is an old WD (with no guarantee if it fails under warranty, it’ll have the legacy support) or a Seagate 3.5” hard drive.
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You need an old drive with full auto-sense compatibility. The new drives NO LONGER have it outside of the Seagate desktop drives (non-SSHD). Your choice is an old WD (with no guarantee if it fails under warranty, it’ll have the legacy support) or a Seagate 3.5” hard drive.
What I would do is dump the optical drive for one of those 2.5” HDD adapters for an SSD and put a 2TB hard drive in place of the stock hard drive for storage. Most people do not use the optical drive, so you can typically remove it and buy an external safely unless you or this person is one of the few who uses it and can alert you to the fact they need it and they know it works. Most people don’t care and either never fix it if it doesn’t hamper the boot process or throw another hard drive in when it croaks. It’s primarily why professionals expect it to be shot and come prepared. I can safely tell you the percentage of people who care is few and far between from the ones who either have machines with them (but never use it) or it has issues like a rough eject problem and the drive is just permanently dead.
Refer to [guide|9070|this guide] to dump the optical drive for a boot SSD and [guide|9028|this guide] for the hard drive.
'''Hold up - this is pre 2011 so no SATA III support :-(.'''
You need an old drive with full auto-sense compatibility. The new drives NO LONGER have it outside of the Seagate desktop drives. Your choice is an old WD (with no guarantee if it fails under warranty, it’ll have the legacy support) or a Seagate 3.5” hard drive.
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What I would do is dump the optical drive for one of those 2.5” HDD adapters for an SSD and put a 2TB hard drive in place of the stock hard drive for storage. Most people do not use the optical drive, so you can typically remove it and buy an external safely unless you or this person is one of the few who uses it and can alert you to the fact they need it and they know it works. Most people don’t care and either never fix it if it doesn’t hamper the boot process or throw another hard drive in when it croaks. It’s primarily why professionals expect it to be shot and come prepared. I can safely tell you the percentage of people who care is few and far between from the ones who either have machines with them (but never use it) or it has issues like a rough eject problem and it isn’t addressed and stays dead.
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What I would do is dump the optical drive for one of those 2.5” HDD adapters for an SSD and put a 2TB hard drive in place of the stock hard drive for storage. Most people do not use the optical drive, so you can typically remove it and buy an external safely unless you or this person is one of the few who uses it and can alert you to the fact they need it and they know it works. Most people don’t care and either never fix it if it doesn’t hamper the boot process or throw another hard drive in when it croaks. It’s primarily why professionals expect it to be shot and come prepared. I can safely tell you the percentage of people who care is few and far between from the ones who either have machines with them (but never use it) or it has issues like a rough eject problem and the drive is just permanently dead.
Refer to [guide|9070|this guide] to dump the optical drive for a boot SSD and [guide|9028|this guide] for the hard drive.
'''Hold up - this is pre 2011 so no SATA III support :-(.'''
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'''Hold up - this is pre 2011 so no SATA III support :-(.'''
You need an old drive with full auto-sense compatibility. The new drives NO LONGER have it outside of the Seagate desktop drives. Your choice is an old WD (with no guarantee if it fails under warranty, it’ll have the legacy support) or a Seagate 3.5” hard drive.
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What I would do is dump the optical drive for one of those 2.5” HDD adapters for an SSD and put a 2TB hard drive in place of the stock hard drive for storage. Most people do not use the optical drive, so you can typically remove it and buy an external safely unless you or this person is one of the few who uses it and can alert you to the fact they need it and they know it works. Most people don’t care and either never fix it or throw another hard drive in when it croaks. It’s primarily why professionals expect it to be shot and come prepared. I can safely tell you the percentage of people who care is few and far between from the ones who either have machines with them (but never use it) or it has issues like a rough eject problem and it isn’t addressed and stays dead.
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What I would do is dump the optical drive for one of those 2.5” HDD adapters for an SSD and put a 2TB hard drive in place of the stock hard drive for storage. Most people do not use the optical drive, so you can typically remove it and buy an external safely unless you or this person is one of the few who uses it and can alert you to the fact they need it and they know it works. Most people don’t care and either never fix it if it doesn’t hamper the boot process or throw another hard drive in when it croaks. It’s primarily why professionals expect it to be shot and come prepared. I can safely tell you the percentage of people who care is few and far between from the ones who either have machines with them (but never use it) or it has issues like a rough eject problem and it isn’t addressed and stays dead.
Refer to [guide|9070|this guide] to dump the optical drive for a boot SSD and [guide|9028|this guide] for the hard drive.
Hold up - this is pre 2011 so no SATA III support :-(. You need an old drive with full autosense compatibility. The new drives NO LONGER have it outside of the Seagate desktop drives. Your choice is NOS WD (with no gaurantee if it fails under warranty, it’ll have the legacy support) or a Seagate 3.5” hard drive.
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'''Hold up - this is pre 2011 so no SATA III support :-(.'''
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You need an old drive with full auto-sense compatibility. The new drives NO LONGER have it outside of the Seagate desktop drives. Your choice is an old WD (with no guarantee if it fails under warranty, it’ll have the legacy support) or a Seagate 3.5” hard drive.
What I would do is dump the optical drive for one of those 2.5” HDD adapters for an SSD and put a 2TB hard drive in place of the stock hard drive for storage. Most people do not use the optical drive, so you can typically remove it and buy an external safely unless you or this person is one of the few who uses it and can alert you to the fact they need it and they know it works. Most people don’t care and either never fix it or throw another hard drive in when it croaks. It’s primarily why professionals expect it to be shot and come prepared. I can safely tell you the percentage of people who care is few and far between from the ones who either have machines with them (but never use it) or it has issues like a rough eject problem and it isn’t addressed and stays dead.
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Refer to [https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Installing+iMac+Intel+24-Inch+EMC+2267+Dual+Drive/9070|this guide] to dump the optical drive for a boot SSD and [guide|9028|this guide] for the hard drive.
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Refer to [guide|9070|this guide] to dump the optical drive for a boot SSD and [guide|9028|this guide] for the hard drive.
Hold up - this is pre 2011 so no SATA III support :-(. You need an old drive with full autosense compatibility. The new drives NO LONGER have it outside of the Seagate desktop drives. Your choice is NOS WD (with no gaurantee if it fails under warranty, it’ll have the legacy support) or a Seagate 3.5” hard drive.
What I would do is dump the optical drive for one of those 2.5” HDD adapters for an SSD and put a 2TB hard drive in place of the stock hard drive for storage. Most people do not use the optical drive, so you can typically remove it and buy an external safely unless you or this person is one of the few who uses it and can alert you to the fact they need it and they know it works. Most people don’t care and either never fix it or throw another hard drive in when it croaks. It’s primarily why professionals expect it to be shot and come prepared. I can safely tell you the percentage of people who care is few and far between from the ones who either have machines with them (but never use it) or it has issues like a rough eject problem and it isn’t addressed and stays dead.
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Refer to [guide|9027|this guide] to dump the optical drive for a boot SSD and [guide|9028|this guide] for the hard drive.
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Refer to [https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Installing+iMac+Intel+24-Inch+EMC+2267+Dual+Drive/9070|this guide] to dump the optical drive for a boot SSD and [guide|9028|this guide] for the hard drive.
Hold up - this is pre 2011 so no SATA III support :-(. You need an old drive with full autosense compatibility. The new drives NO LONGER have it outside of the Seagate desktop drives. Your choice is NOS WD (with no gaurantee if it fails under warranty, it’ll have the legacy support) or a Seagate 3.5” hard drive.
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What I would do is dump the optical drive for one of those 2.5” HDD adapters for an SSD and put a 2TB hard drive in place of the stock hard drive for storage. Most people do not use the optical drive, so you can remove it and buy an external safely unless this person is somehow one of the few who uses it and can alert you to the fact they need it - and if it even works/knows it’s rough but leaves it unrepaired. It’s primarily why professionals expect it to be shot and come prepared. I can safely tell you the percentage of people who care is few and far between from the ones who take my stance and don’t use it/bought a machine with a drive that works but may keep it for that one person or it has issues and will always be dead.
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What I would do is dump the optical drive for one of those 2.5” HDD adapters for an SSD and put a 2TB hard drive in place of the stock hard drive for storage. Most people do not use the optical drive, so you can typically remove it and buy an external safely unless you or this person is one of the few who uses it and can alert you to the fact they need it and they know it works. Most people don’t care and either never fix it or throw another hard drive in when it croaks. It’s primarily why professionals expect it to be shot and come prepared. I can safely tell you the percentage of people who care is few and far between from the ones who either have machines with them (but never use it) or it has issues like a rough eject problem and it isn’t addressed and stays dead.
Refer to [guide|9027|this guide] to dump the optical drive for a boot SSD and [guide|9028|this guide] for the hard drive.
Hold up - this is pre 2011 so no SATA III support :-(. You need an old drive with full autosense compatibility. The new drives NO LONGER have it outside of the Seagate desktop drives. Your choice is NOS WD (with no gaurantee if it fails under warranty, it’ll have the legacy support) or a Seagate 3.5” hard drive.
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What I would do is dump the optical drive for one of those 2.5” HDD adapters for an SSD and put a 2TB hard drive in place of the stock hard drive for storage. Most people do not use the optical drive, so you can remove it and buy an external safely unless this person is somehow one of the few who uses it and can alert you to the fact they need it - and if it even works/knows it’s rough but leaves it unrepaired. It’s primarily why professionals expect it to be shot and come prepared. I can safely tell you the percentage of people who care is few and far between from the ones who take my stance and don’t use it/bought a machine with a drive that works but may keep it for that one person or it has issues that will never be fixed with a new one.
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What I would do is dump the optical drive for one of those 2.5” HDD adapters for an SSD and put a 2TB hard drive in place of the stock hard drive for storage. Most people do not use the optical drive, so you can remove it and buy an external safely unless this person is somehow one of the few who uses it and can alert you to the fact they need it - and if it even works/knows it’s rough but leaves it unrepaired. It’s primarily why professionals expect it to be shot and come prepared. I can safely tell you the percentage of people who care is few and far between from the ones who take my stance and don’t use it/bought a machine with a drive that works but may keep it for that one person or it has issues and will always be dead.
Refer to [guide|9027|this guide] to dump the optical drive for a boot SSD and [guide|9028|this guide] for the hard drive.
Hold up - this is pre 2011 so no SATA III support :-(. You need an old drive with full autosense compatibility. The new drives NO LONGER have it outside of the Seagate desktop drives. Your choice is NOS WD (with no gaurantee if it fails under warranty, it’ll have the legacy support) or a Seagate 3.5” hard drive.
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What I would do is dump the optical drive for one of those 2.5” HDD adapters for an SSD and put a 2TB hard drive in place of the stock hard drive for storage. Most people do not use the optical drive, so you can remove it and buy an external safely unless this person is somehow one of the few who doesn’t know when the last use time was - and if it even works/knows it’s rough but leaves it unrepaired. It’s primarily why professionals expect it to be shot and come prepared.
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What I would do is dump the optical drive for one of those 2.5” HDD adapters for an SSD and put a 2TB hard drive in place of the stock hard drive for storage. Most people do not use the optical drive, so you can remove it and buy an external safely unless this person is somehow one of the few who uses it and can alert you to the fact they need it - and if it even works/knows it’s rough but leaves it unrepaired. It’s primarily why professionals expect it to be shot and come prepared. I can safely tell you the percentage of people who care is few and far between from the ones who take my stance and don’t use it/bought a machine with a drive that works but may keep it for that one person or it has issues that will never be fixed with a new one.
Refer to [guide|9027|this guide] to dump the optical drive for a boot SSD and [guide|9028|this guide] for the hard drive.
Hold up - this is pre 2011 so no SATA III support :-(. You need an old drive with full autosense compatibility. The new drives NO LONGER have it outside of the Seagate desktop drives. Your choice is NOS WD (with no gaurantee if it fails under warranty, it’ll have the legacy support) or a Seagate 3.5” hard drive.
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What I would do is dump the optical drive for one of those 2.5” HDD adapters for an SSD and put a 2TB hard drive in place of the stock hard drive for storage. Most people do not use the optical drive, so you can remove it and buy an external safely unless this person is somehow one of the few who doesn’t know when the last use time was - and if it even works/knows it’s rough but leaves it unrepaired.
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What I would do is dump the optical drive for one of those 2.5” HDD adapters for an SSD and put a 2TB hard drive in place of the stock hard drive for storage. Most people do not use the optical drive, so you can remove it and buy an external safely unless this person is somehow one of the few who doesn’t know when the last use time was - and if it even works/knows it’s rough but leaves it unrepaired. It’s primarily why professionals expect it to be shot and come prepared.
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Refer to [https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iMac+Intel+24-Inch+EMC+2267+Optical+Drive+Replacement/9027|this guide] to dump the optical drive for a boot SSD and [https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iMac+Intel+24-Inch+EMC+2267+Hard+Drive+Replacement/9028|this guide] for the hard drive.
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Refer to [guide|9027|this guide] to dump the optical drive for a boot SSD and [guide|9028|this guide] for the hard drive.
Hold up - this is pre 2011 so no SATA III support :-(. You need an old drive with full autosense compatibility. The new drives NO LONGER have it outside of the Seagate desktop drives. Your choice is NOS WD (with no gaurantee if it fails under warranty, it’ll have the legacy support) or a Seagate 3.5” hard drive.
What I would do is dump the optical drive for one of those 2.5” HDD adapters for an SSD and put a 2TB hard drive in place of the stock hard drive for storage. Most people do not use the optical drive, so you can remove it and buy an external safely unless this person is somehow one of the few who doesn’t know when the last use time was - and if it even works/knows it’s rough but leaves it unrepaired.
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Refer to [https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iMac+Intel+24-Inch+EMC+2267+Optical+Drive+Replacement/9027|this guide] to dump the optical drive for a boot SSD and [https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iMac+Intel+24-Inch+EMC+2267+Hard+Drive+Replacement/9028|this guide] for the hard drive.
Hold up - this is pre 2011 so no SATA III support :-(. You need an old drive with full autosense compatibility. The new drives NO LONGER have it outside of the Seagate desktop drives. Your choice is NOS WD (with no gaurantee if it fails under warranty, it’ll have the legacy support) or a Seagate 3.5” hard drive.
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What I would do is dump the optical drive for one of those 2.5” HDD adapters for an SSD and put a 2TB hard drive in place of the stock hard drive for storage. Most people do not use the optical drive, so you can remove it and buy an external safely unless this person is somehow one of the few who doesn’t know when the last use time was.
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What I would do is dump the optical drive for one of those 2.5” HDD adapters for an SSD and put a 2TB hard drive in place of the stock hard drive for storage. Most people do not use the optical drive, so you can remove it and buy an external safely unless this person is somehow one of the few who doesn’t know when the last use time was - and if it even works/knows it’s rough but leaves it unrepaired.
Hold up - this is pre 2011 so no SATA III support :-(. You need an old drive with full autosense compatibility. The new drives NO LONGER have it outside of the Seagate desktop drives. Your choice is NOS WD (with no gaurantee if it fails under warranty, it’ll have the legacy support) or a Seagate 3.5” hard drive.
What I would do is dump the optical drive for one of those 2.5” HDD adapters for an SSD and put a 2TB hard drive in place of the stock hard drive for storage. Most people do not use the optical drive, so you can remove it and buy an external safely unless this person is somehow one of the few who doesn’t know when the last use time was.