I thought the 21.5 inch Late 2013 iMac didn't need the In-line Digital Thermal Sensor Cable?
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21" iMac (Late 2013) extremely slow
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I thought the 21.5 inch Late 2013 iMac didn't need the In-line Digital Thermal Sensor Cable?
Apple replaced the 3.5"" drive in 2012 and later with a laptop style 2.5" platter drive to overcome this, which is as slow as molasses.
Yes, definitely the HDD is bad. I had same thing happen to my 27" iMac. After I replaced the HDD and restored from backup, I was good to go.
The SSD and RAM came yesterday. Should have the upgrade kit tomorrow.
Do I need to format the drive at all before installing?
Also, would there be any benefit to to pulling out my Time Machine Backup HDD from my external HDD Dock and inserting the the new SSD in it and installing Mac OS before inserting the drive in my iMac?
Do I need to format the drive at all before installing?
Also, would there be any benefit to to pulling out my Time Machine Backup HDD from my external HDD Dock and inserting the the new SSD in it and installing Mac OS before inserting the drive in my iMac?
After you boot from the flash drive (or from Internet Recovery), you should be able to use Disk Utility to format it.
Last Sunday I tackled this project, and while it was a pita to get to the ram everything was completed and my iMac is worker better than ever.
One thing I didn't expect was that internet recovery mode downloaded OS X Mountain Lion. I would have expected it to download the latest available OS, not what my iMac shipped with.
The only issue I need to iron out now is after restoring from my Time Machine, my iMac is not working quite right with iCloud drive. It pulls down new files and folders but does not update existing ones. Nor does it push any changes I made to files on my iMac. What is the best way to fix this?
One thing I didn't expect was that internet recovery mode downloaded OS X Mountain Lion. I would have expected it to download the latest available OS, not what my iMac shipped with.
The only issue I need to iron out now is after restoring from my Time Machine, my iMac is not working quite right with iCloud drive. It pulls down new files and folders but does not update existing ones. Nor does it push any changes I made to files on my iMac. What is the best way to fix this?
Depends how you started Recovery Mode which operating system you will get. Research it first.
https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT204904
https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT204904
Good day,
I've been having the same problems as the OP. Thank you all for the advice given.
Time machine is taking forever to back up...and I mean days.
Would it be possible to get an external enclosure and clone the existing drive to the new one and then swap them over?
If so how would I format the new drive?
Thank you.
I've been having the same problems as the OP. Thank you all for the advice given.
Time machine is taking forever to back up...and I mean days.
Would it be possible to get an external enclosure and clone the existing drive to the new one and then swap them over?
If so how would I format the new drive?
Thank you.
Hello, was checking out your advice for 21.5" iMac late 2013 upgrades for an SSD and memory (if it's open, why not?) and I'm doing just this to iMac that is running very slow for my aunt. Question (opinion?) about the Crucial memory; on Amazon they have the 8gb you mention but I also noticed they had one that was unbuffered. This seems to be a bit cheaper. Any advantage or disadvantage to this one vs. what I presume is buffered? Thanks.