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iMac 27" 5k late 2015 Replacing the HD from a Fusion iMac for an SSD samsung 850 EVO or PRO, Will I have the cooler fan...

I had success in taking of the protection / heat sink using a hair dryer a metal spud and a laser infra-red thermometer. Once my hair dryer was not so strong temperature didn't passed from 70o Celsius I didn't wanted the ssd hotter than 80. C. After some minutes it realized With little effort on the spud. I did it to use the ssd from the mac pro in my Macbook Air 11. I don't think it is necessarily to use that plate if you upgrade your mac pro. it doesn't seem to be a heat sink since it is plain and it is glue with 2 stickers. It will not cooler the ssd, maybe will even keep the heat inside of it since it is a air cushion

Intel Core i7-7700K - https://amzn.to/2Ld1ym8

it is not soldered

Vey sorry for so late answer , I didn't saw this at the time. I was revising today the process and saw the question. It worked perfectly for me. You have of plenty options when installing the blade SSD, the better is also put a regular Sata SSD and have 2 SSDs. I also changed the i5 for a i7. It is a long time work but is not that hard, once you are opening the iMac worth change the processor. The used by apple in their upgrade option was the: i7 6700K 4.00 GHz Unlocked Quad Core Skylake Desktop Processor, Socket LGA 1151

what a shame! apple think all their users are stupid. they probably are 99% right. Who cares if you cant upgrade the ssd? The next step will be solder the battery too? What else they can invent to suck the idiots money? I fell terrible windows pc are so much worst... for now who cares about upgrade at least the ssd will be in the hunt for the old models. And sandisk? common, this is only to change to samsung ssd next year and announce a twice fast ssd?

OMG! What futurist crap! New ssd patern, from sandisk! And what is this crazy USB-c thing? Maybe next decade I buy a only USB-c computer

Awesome job ifixit. $&@".?

apple really don't like the poors. their entry models are always a all soldered crap. in other hand in the 27 5k you can upgrade RAM, SSDs and even the CPU

I have the same question. I just pulled a 256gb from mine and to reuse it on a macbook I will need remove the heatsink. I suppose I need to heat with a heat blower but I am not sure...

I would never buy a phone with this warning against puppies

me too. don't need to remove it if you only want to change the hd