#WHAT CAN BE UPGRADED ON THE NEW IMAC 2018 UPGRADE#īut! It's still a bit of work as you'll need to get the proper SATA/Power cable harness from Apple and as you are putting your own drive in you'll need this: OWC In-line Digital Thermal Sensor for Hard Drive Upgrade for 27" iMacs 2012 and Later as unlike the custom Apple HD drives you need to add in a thermal sensor for the system to work properly.
If you get a Fusion Drive'd model you will have a dual drive system so you would need to swap out the SATA drive to a larger one if that was your direction later on.įrankly, Apple is really making it harder to do any drive upgrades these days with the 'Thin Series' iMac's. If you can, get what you want now for drive storage. Given the risks of damage and the amount of work to even get into the system it's not something I recommend for someone who has not opened one of these newer 'Thin Series' systems before.Īgree with getting an Apple SSD to start, it's the fastest. The SSD in the Fusion drives is NOT as fast as the SSD only models.
I have a late 2013 model that started as Fusion, replaced the HD with SSD myself, not much difference in speed gain at all. The PCIe/NVMe connection is a game changer in speed. This one has the 1TB Apple SSD and NO Fusion this time.įrom personal experience and my buddy's iMac: Just ordered a loaded 2017 iMac, except I will be adding the RAM myself. Mine is a loaded late '13 27" iMac.I installed a Crucial 2TB SSD.i7 3.5 and 32 GB RAM.
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