I'm not sure if anyone is still following this post but I finally made the leap and all seems to be working perfectly. This is my first time doing any type of upgrade but the ifixit instructions were clear and the OWC kit helpful. I bought my mid year 2017 iMac brand new but with little bells and whistles at the time. For this project, I went from i5 to i7 processor, swapped 512 flash storage for 2TB Aura Pro X2 and then added OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G for an SSD. I did not have any SATA drive before so the toughest part was finding the correct SATA cable to add to my mother board. My question. Now that everything is working, do I need to redirect any major functions to different areas. Point some things to the new SSD that machine did not have before etc? I'm not very knowledgable in that are. Thank you for any insight. John.
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I'm not sure if anyone is still following this post but I finally made the leap and all seems to be working perfectly. This is my first time doing any type of upgrade but the ifixit instructions were clear and the OWC kit helpful.
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I bought my mid year 2017 iMac brand new but with little of the bells and whistles at the time.
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For this project, I went from i5 to i7 processor, swapped 512 flash storage for 2TB Aura Pro X2 and then added OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G for an SSD.
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I did not have any SATA drive before so the toughest part was finding the correct SATA cable to add to my mother board.
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My question: Now that everything is working, do I need to redirect any major functions to different areas. Point some things to the new SSD that machine did not have before etc? I'm not very knowledgable in that area.
I'm not sure if anyone is still following this post but I finally made the leap and all seems to be working perfectly. This is my first time doing any type of upgrade but the ifixit instructions were clear and the OWC kit helpful. I bought my mid year 2017 iMac brand new but with little bells and whistles at the time. For this project, I went from i5 to i7 processor, swapped 512 flash storage for 2TB Aura Pro X2 and then added OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G for an SSD. I did not have any SATA drive before so the toughest part was finding the correct SATA cable to add to my mother board. My question. Now that everything is working, do I need to redirect any major functions to different areas. Point some things to the new SSD that machine did not have before etc? I'm not very knowledgable in that are. Thank you for any insight. John.