Old iMac (2007 =T7700) SSD upgrade.

[dcmaccam]

I have a perfectly good spare 2007 iMac 2.5 GHz. I thought it might be good to give it a new lease of life by replacing the internal 320GB HDD with a 240GB SSD (Integral 240GB P-Series Data III drive).

Looking for the cheapest upgrade, so looking to pull out the 3.5 and replace with the 2.5" SSD without purchasing 3.5 to 2.5 adaptor. Maybe using some silicone adhesive. Anyone think that would be possible?

 

[Evaldas]

This upgrade is a great idea. I have a MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007, T7700) with Samsung 840 PRO SSD and 4 GB of memory, everything works flawlessly.

Silicone adhesive will work perfectly, because the SSD is very light. Or use a thick double sided tape.

And by the by, don't forget to enable TRIM after, if you'll use OS X Yosemite 10.10 or OS X El Capitan 10.11. You can do it with this command:

sudo trimforce enable

 

[TheIntruder]

Velcro would work, and such a machine is perfectly usable with an SSD.

But I try to do things right, and avoid having to do a job twice, so when I did the conversion, I used a proper bracket.

It's not too expensive, and since there's little slack in the cables, the simpler generic stamped adapter brackets may not work.

Replace the PRAM battery while it's accessible as well.

 

[dcmaccam]

Just done the upgrade and all went well. I didn't use a bracket to hold the SSD in the machine just used a couple of ti-wraps. Machine is still slow on boot (running El-Capitan) but once up it is pretty quick for its age. Manage to enable TRIM support. Took me 30min to do the upgrade and I didn't need to remove the LCD just swivelled it 90% to gain access to the HDD.

 

[brucewayne]

Just done the upgrade and all went well. I didn't use a bracket to hold the SSD in the machine just used a couple of ti-wraps. Machine is still slow on boot (running El-Capitan) but once up it is pretty quick for its age. Manage to enable TRIM support. Took me 30min to do the upgrade and I didn't need to remove the LCD just swivelled it 90% to gain access to the HDD.

Daughter has been using my old mid-2007 iMac for years to do her pbs kids and art hub on youtube. It runs surprisingly well for an almost 13 year old computer, especially considering it spent the first 4 years of its life with the processor maxed 24/7 doing video encodes. Only thing I have ever done to it is disassembled the screen assembly to get dust off the backlight and changed the HD to an SSD 5 years ago.