Late 2009 Imac Hybrid Drive

It s way faster than before.

Late 2009 imac hybrid drive.

10 28 2015 by david keldsen yes if you are going this far focus on the hybrid drives sshd for the replacement drive as they offer better performance. Booting from a solid state drive like the samsung t5 should give you a boost in performance especially if you are running an older imac with a 5 400 rpm hard drive. 2 0tb 3g ssd 499 ddr3 1066mhz 8 0gb kit 2x4gb 99. 250gb 3g ssd 119.

On top of booting from an. I have a late 2009 27 inch imac with fan speed problems after hdd replacement. I have an imac late 2009 with i7 2 8ghz. Ati radeon hd 4670 256.

1 0tb 3g ssd 259. I added a seagate momentus xt 750gb hybrid drive to my 2009 imac to speed it up again and gain some additional drive space. 500gb 3g ssd 179. It is now july 2019 and i have this late 2009 imac.

Since it took me some time to figure this all out i thought i d write a short blog post and leave a comment. Typing this on my late 2009 imac that i just put the 4tb hybrid seagate into. 2 0tb hybrid drive 179. Could i replace it with a seagate hybrid drive such as st2000dx001.

But i am considering upgrading it. Still very functional by with only a 500gb hard drive which seemed huge in 2009 but by today s standards is relatively small. The internal seagate 1tb hdd died. I replaced the failed 1 tb seagate barracuda hdd with a seagate hybrid drive superspeed stbd1000400 1tb 8gb ssd 5400 rpm 64mb cache sata 6 0gb s 2 5 internal hybrid hard drive.

Shopped around and liked the looks price and reviews of owc s 2 0 tb sshd upgrade kit for this imac. I missed the seagate hdd recall and recently my hdd failed. The imac feels like new again. 3 06 ghz intel core 2 duo memory.

4 gb 1067 mhz ddr3 graphics. Unfortunately i have not been aware of the free replacement program that apple used to offer so i decided to replace it with a new one. I inherited a 2009 imac that had had very little use. Ddr3 1066mhz 16 gb kit 2x8gb 189 note.