Disk upgrade on the iMac 27 inches, Mid2011
Hi team,
I need your help or advice
I have an IMac12, 2 27 inch MID2011 with 1 TB of SATA drive and 8 GB of RAM.
It s works fine, but I need to perform an upgrade to run faster and heavy support of virtualization software.
My first goal is to add the new SSD, which will have a shift from a SATA drive.
Now as novice very I m on the physical changes, mainly the Mac hardware, I need your advice.
Here's my dilemma
1. can I buy an external SSD with ThunderBolt and a /restore of the top SATA drive backup. Change the boot system to use the external drive as first drive system. Then erase all my SATA DRIVE (which will serve as a storage device)
2. or buy a SSD drive and take the risk to open the inner box and add the drive to the motherboard
Which option would you recommend, I need your advice?
THX in advance
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