

You should easily get 3-4 more years out of it. This will breathe new life into an aging iMac. You could use a Samsung t5 drive, or something like this: I think that's a "good enough" trade-off. Modelo A1419 / Finales de 2013 / 3.2 y 3.4 GHz Procesador Core i5 o 3.5 GHz Core i7, ID iMac14,2. Completely avoided by using an external SSD as the boot drive.īe aware that you will lose a slight amount of speed by booting/running via USB3, but you should still get about 85% (or more) of the speed you would see by installing the drive internally. There's a definite risk of breaking something by doing "iMac surgery". I recommend option 2 as the "fastest, easiest, safest" way to do things. This update addresses an issue which may cause a black screen to appear when installing Windows 7 or Windows 8 using Boot Camp Assistant if both an external optical drive and USB thumb drive are connected to the system. Attach a USB3 SSD and then set it up to be an external boot drive. iMac (late 2013) EFI Update is recommended for iMac (late 2013) models. The internal drive isn't necessarily "dying" - it's just. The problem is the drive inside - it's a platter-based hard drive and they're going to be slow with modern (Mavericks and later) versions of the Mac OS.
