Are these the right SSD PCIe blades for iMac Late 2013?
Hi,
I need to be 100% sure that if the information it's correct. I want to place a PCIe SSD blade to my Imac but I would like to know if any of the below options works for my IMac, if you agree with the following information please let me know:
1) Apple SM0512F or SM0256F SSD PCIe blades are the same Samsung blades models MZ JPU512T/OA6 (512GB) and MZ JPU256T/OA6 (256GB) respectively.
2) Those blades are used and compatible with the following models:
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)
- MacBook Air (11-inch, Mid 2013)
- MacBook Air (11-inch, Early 2014)
- MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2013)
- MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2014)
- iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2013)
- iMac (27-inch, Late 2013)
- iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014)
- Mac Pro (Late 2013)
- Mac mini (Late 2014)
Am I right?
If yes, these blades would work for IMac 21,5" and 27" Late 2013 and 2014.
I just need to be sure before I buy some used pulled from a Mac lap-top
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Where are you getting the information that these blades will work?
por mayer
Oh, that question is an old one ; I got that information after a deep research and from experts, indeed IFixit sells a PCIexpress blade for iMac late 2013 of 21.5" as well 27" but finally I decided to buy a Crucial SSD 550GB model MX200 and works beautifully, the OS boots in only 10 seconds and the speed was increased from 60 MB per second to 512MB
por Armando
Armando, I researched this up and down. I'm tired of the "oh that's too hard to do, or you'll break you mac, or you'll void the warranty" etc etc :)
I am trying to figure out if I have the model with a 1TB HD installed already, can I put a new SSD drive into a PCIe slot by accessing behind the mainboard.
Did your machine already have an SSD or was it a standard HDD installed model, I got the impression that some seem to think that the standard models don't have the PCIe slot but I'm not sure I believe that.
Thanks for your posts so far!
Brian
por Brian Lamb
Brian, where you able to find out if the PCIe slot is available even if is wasn't a fusion drive model?
por Ruggero
gave up efforts to dig around inside. It isn't my machine and didn't want to hurt it trying
Ended up SSD to USB3 which might seem bad but it's a good 2nd tier solution
I've done ssd to USB2 on even older machines and that's a marked improvement.
Even thought the seeming difference in bus transfer speed might be a small impact
90% of the gain in SSD usage is from the access time.
Sure it's an externally attached boot device so you can ant to be careful about that but it is a desktop after all so should be possible to make that work
Also if you might want to spend more you could get a thunderbolt drive but I didn't think the cost is worth it.
So I'm happy enough with SSD to USB3 for boot and other USB external storage.
By the way... boot times are in the 10s range
Write is about 150-300
Read tunes are more reliably 350+
This is with an older model SanDisk SSD Plus 480gb....
por Brian Lamb
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