Imac 2011 Ssd Upgrade Temperature Sensor

September 9 2018 i bought a second hand 2011 imac for a song and really wanted to boost the speed so i bought an ssd glad i read about the temp sensor somewhere.

Imac 2011 ssd upgrade temperature sensor.

I just installed a 480gb sandisk ssd plus in a mid 2011 imac with no external thermal sensor on the old drive. I m hesitant to clip wires on the power cable so i m really hoping my luck holds. Owc 1tb ssd upgrade bundle for 2011 imacs owc mercury electra 1 0tb 6g ssd adaptadrive 2 5 to 3 5 drive converter bracket in line digital thermal sensor cable installation tools owckitim11he1tb. 2011 imac ssd upgrade tutorial with owc thermal sensor kit.

Ultimately it is possible to upgrade the hard drive in these 21 5 inch and 27 inch aluminum imac models or upgrade or install a secondary ssd in the mid 2011 21 5 inch models and mid 2010 and mid 2011 27 inch models but opening the case is a challenge and it is definitely not for those without significant upgrade experience. Anyway really easy to install. I ve booted from an el capitan installer flash drive formatted the ssd and am installing el cap as i write this. No fan noise at all so far.

Simply shorted out the hd connector with a home made jumper wire as shown here. How to clone existing harddrive to nvram reset which enables imac to acknowledge there has been h. Owc really makes it easy with their step by step guides. I d been planning to sell my mid 2010 27 imac and purchase the new 2019 model as the performance had significantly dropped off despite doing an os clean install.