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Upgrade your iMac they said. It’s easy they said

Dennis Branum -

iMac Intel 27" Retina 5K Display

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iMac Intel 27" Retina 5K Display Hard Drive Replacement

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Moderate

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Upgraded my 5k 2014 iMac from disk drive to Solid State Drive.

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The initial hard part was overcoming the anxiety of separating the screen. Despite having watched dozens and dozens of YouTube and iFixit videos over the previous year I was still a nervous wreck.

The most time consuming part of the project was removing the glue residue left from the original double sided tape.

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Be patient. I spread this project out over several weeks. I started with cloning my original disk drive first and ran my new SATA drive via a USB connection for a few weeks to make sure all went well.

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iMac Opening Wheel

$7.99

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