Unlike many here who have their own shop, I was a contract worker jumping around larger corporate customers configuring & fixing their equipment.
Apple’s move to system’s without USB-A ports forced a few of my customers to walk away from Apple gear as they were dependent on cypher keys which need to be directly attached to the system, not via a dongle or hub device which could be altered unbeknownst to the user (man in the middle attack risk). For my other big customers the lack of the ability to memorialize a systems drive or remove it so it could be destroyed was the other downfall for Apple.
So I’ve been working out of my home fixing systems as I could over the last few years.
Well, its finally happened! I’ve, fixed my last system for now. My arthritis has finally made it too hard to do much of anything delicate in the cold weather. Maybe in the late spring I’ll give it ago again.
I’m still helping people keep their systems running as long as they can be here on iFixit!
Very easy! Get a big enough external drive for your mac partition and just plug it in! Magically macOS will ask you what to do. tell it you want to use it as a TimeMachine backup and let it rip! It will asked you a few questions and backup your macOS partition.
Now you’ll need to get a backup program for your Windows partition and a second drive for it. Depending on what you get you’ll follow the instructions it offers.
Done!
Now setup a USB thumb drive as a bootable OS installer (make sure it works)
Next install your new drive. Restart your system off of the USB thumb drive to install a fresh copy of your macOS. Now restore your stuff from the TimeMachine backup again magically when you connect it macOS will ask you if you want to restore! Again answer the questions as needed and let it go. Enjoy your coffee come back in a hour or so depending how much you have.
Now re-setup BootCamp and your Windows partition. run the restore function of your Windows backup, done!
Again don’t use cloning software!
No you do’t want to use cloning software what was possible years ago it not possible with Apples new APFS file system. If you drive is not clean (unfragmented) or has any errors even Mac cloning won’t work reliably! Because of this I haven’t used it in over 15 years now I only use Apples Migration Assistant tool as well as TimeMachine.
When you have a Windows partition you need to use the proper backup and restore tools under it.
This technique offers an easier way to switch out the drive. Here we’re just moving the cables from the HDD to the SSD. Sitting the drive on the edge of the HDD, there is just enough space to do this.
The other guide iMac Intel 27" Retina 5K Display Festplatte Austausch also works! But you’ll need a 2.5” to 3.5” adapter frame.
If you want to still have access to your stuff on the HDD installing it into a external case.
And lastly, if you want to keep it internally you’ll need to use a PCIe/NVMe blade SSD following this guide iMac Intel 27" Retina 5K Display Blade SSD ersetzen. This is a fair amount of additional work, but it does offer much more performance gain!
No it’s not required, it all depends on the alignment needed with the new unit.
Sorry It is not M.2, the custom Apple blade SSD connector is not present.
Very dangerous! You’ll stress the cables and the logic board connectors.
There are two versions of the connector depending on the trackpad and logic board. Yours should be like the one I posted.
The other one is more like this one Keyboard Connector
Both the logic board and the trackpad connectors use a compression bar (latch). When you have it in the open state its ZIF but to secure the cable you need to close the latch to hold the cable and make the needed electrical connection Trackpad Flex Connector
The hole is the microphone! The slots on the other side are the speaker grills. Why would you think the AppleWatch has a SIM?? It uses an eSIM like your newer iPhones.
In a Fusion Drive set you have the slower HDD which is the active storage space and then you have the hidden SSD which is the caching drive. Every data block is read or written via the SSD then to the HDD as the SSD is much faster in both access and read & write action. If you look in your drive info you won’t see it as the active volume only the HDD is listed.
Apples imputation of caching is done at the OS level unlike hybrid drives (like Seagate’s SSHD’s). The whole reason caching like either were offered was SSD’s where still very expensive at the time. Even though SSD costs have dropped they are still more costly than the HDD or a SSHD drive or even most Fusion Drive setups. From a performance perspective a dual drive setup where you have a 256/512 GB SSD as your boot drive and use a larger 1TB (or bigger) HDD or SSHH as your data drive for most is the better setup (not using a Fusion Drive)
For serious Music or Video work you’ll want a larger 1 or 2TB SSD and sue the fastest drive I/O the system offers.
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