The SSD is also made from flash chips that are almost as fast as the RAM. The SSD knows where all your data is instantaneously. With an SSD, there is no waiting, this is because your data is effectively in a spreadsheet. A traditional hard drive is like a record player, when you send data from the HDD to the CPU the computer has to find it, it hunts around the platters/disc looking for all the data. It is not the raw speed of the SSD, it is how it works. An SSD will run and send data at the SATA limit, that is why the increased speed can be up to 10x faster. The SATA bandwidth limit is 500mb per second.
A RAM upgrade is easy, a iMac SSD upgrade is a bit harder, but after reading this guide you'll be an expert with all the knowledge to make an SSD upgrade simple.įor general use, most iMacs have enough CPU power. An iMac upgraded with an SSD can run up to 10x faster! Why? A mechanical drive (standard mac storage from 2006-2020) runs at about 50mb per second. Replacing your mechanical hard drive with an SSD, and you will experience an incredible increase in speed. Applications will open quicker, starting up is snappy, and the overall result is extending the life of your Mac. Upgrade to an SSD and you can make your Mac run like new. How to clone your Crucial SSD with AcronisĪfter you have upgraded the RAM the only other speed bottleneck is the mechanical hard drive.
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