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!
There is no requirement to use one drive interface than another. So yes, you can swtichout your SATA drive with a faster PCI/NVMe SSD drive.
But you may not be able to! Apple only shipped the PCIe/NVMe SSD drive’d and Fusion Drive models with the needed blade connector on the logic board. The bottom line here is you may not have the option to use the PCIe/NVMe blade SSD drive if you got a straight SATA HDD model.
Last important point is Apple did their own thing! The connector is custom! So a M.2 SSD will not directly fit and I don’t recommend using them. Here’s more on the Apple SSD’s The Ultimate Guide to Apple’s Proprietary SSDs
This is a display removal guide not the power supply guide!Here’s the guide you need to follow for that iMac Intel 27" EMC 2546 Netzteil ersetzen
Sounds like you are looking at upgrading your RAM. Well… A Teardown is not a repair guide which is why you won’t find the needed details. Here’s the guide with all of the info you need Mac Mini (Ende 2018) RAM austauschen
I’ve put in a ton of SSD’s none have failed because of being placed behind the optical drive and the GPU in this series often fails! With or without a SSD placed behind the optical drive. My own 2011 27” system has gone through four GPU boards and it doesn’t have the SSD mounted behind the optical drive. The HDD and the GPU each have dedicated fans.
The root issue is we push the graphics too hard playing heavy games and/or doing image or video work on this series. Apple (AMD) didn’t realize the speed apps would progress using more power than they anticipated during the design process.
Thats not true, the air flow is from the bottom to the top not from the side.
Ah! You need a bit of heat and/or solvent to loosen the sealed screw.
There is no tool kit that offers all of the needed tools. You’ll need to get the listed tools within the Tools listing at the top.
No, you can’t replace the connector, you can get an adapter which will allow the drive to connect to your USB-C Mac.
There is really nothing you can fix within the coils, beyond that you need the schematic and boardview of the part which are not available.
@jeffsu - Can make note of that above as that’s an important detail
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