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!
The 21.5” version has discreet cables unlike the 27” version which has the exact same cables but has a heat shrink tube to hold the cables together. this is done to protect the cables from the higher heat and their placement.
The hardware only takes about a half hour, the installing the OS is what takes the time! To speed it up setup an external OS installer drive the faster the drive & interface the faster the install! A thunderbolt RAID’ed SSD is about as fast as you can get it takes just about an hour with it.
Rezension The Ultimate Guide to Apple’s Proprietary SSDs. Sie möchten ein Samsung SSPOLARIS mit der proprietären Apple PCIe 3.0 x4-Schnittstelle.
Review The Ultimate Guide to Apple’s Proprietary SSDs. You want a Samsung SSPOLARIS which has the proprietary Apple PCIe 3.0 x4 interface.
While that is possible! The optical drive SATA port is only SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) Vs the much faster spare SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) port!
Refer to this great guide: The Ultimate Guide to Apple’s Proprietary SSDs
Have no magic here…
Somehow you need to replace the latch. Getting a replacement part is one way, the other is looking for a broken system to steal the latch off of carefully removing it without breaking it, then popping it on your systems connector.
Use a small strip of electricians tape on one end fold it over to make a pull tab, then place on the ribbon cable so you can pull the ribbon into the slot.
Most of the time the latch clip can be refitted in if you haven’t broken it in half. The system won’t work correctly without it!
JIS is japan Industrial Standard which sets a standard for both screws and the tools needed for them.
Here’s one set iFixit - JIS Driver Set
A teardown is not a repair manual! It’s designed to be a good preview of what’s inside and the devices engineering. Look at the repair guides for that level of info.
This is the wrong guide! Jump to this one for your 21.5” system Installing iMac Intel 21.5" EMC 2428 Dual Drive Kit. The adapter & its kit is the same iMac Intel 21.5" (Mid 2011) Dual Hard Drive Kit
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