The new iMacs accept the air-conditioned fast Thunderbolt port and Intel's latest Sandy Bridge Amount processors which makes them, well, appealing awesome. What's not awesome? Apple has fabricated advance the harder drive on the new iMacs abuse abreast impossible.
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Other World Computing is advertisement that "the Apple-branded capital harder drive cannot be moved, removed or replaced." They say it's because Apple has adapted the SATA ability adapter from a accepted 4-pin agreement to a 7-pin configuration. And back harder drive temperature ascendancy is adapted with this cable and Apple's proprietary firmware, messing with that drive messes with everything. OWC says:
From our testing, we've begin that removing this drive from the system, or even from that bay itself, causes the machine's harder drive admirers to circuit at best acceleration and replacing the drive with any non-Apple aboriginal drive will aftereffect in the iMac declining the Apple Hardware Test.
They approved every workaround they could anticipate of but couldn't use a harder drive that wasn't advancing by Apple. In short, it looks like if you wish to advancement your harder drive, your alone advantage is to go through Apple (or alternatively, use the additional drive bay). Not cool. Apprehend the abounding address at OWC.
Update: Possible argumentation for this move: iMacs aren't meant to be user serviceable, so Apple's searching to economize the architecture by abbreviation the amount of parts—removing the abstracted alien sensor/cable ecology the HDD's acting in favor of an chip sensor. (Mildly analogous: Soldering beam accumulator chips anon assimilate the argumentation lath of the MacBook Airs. Less complexity, but the accommodation is it's not user replaceable. SOP for Apple, really.)
[OWC]
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