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Yo. Long story short...Had 2 iMacs, one 24" the other 20" so decided to sell one of them. I'll keep the 24" I thought, and sold the other. The very day I sent the other mac off to its new owner, the hard drive in my 24" went sideways...totally sideways and is now non existent! :blast:blast:blast:blast

Fear not, I turned one of my external ones into a bootable drive and it's performing quite respectably. My question is this, given that funds are tight, what is the best internal HD I can put in an iMac? Have looked at western digital, 1tb 7200rpm, also considered SSD but too pricey. Mac is intel cure 2 duo...
 
These people are good Linky Just select your machine from their drop down menus and they will give you a selection. I used them last year for HD and Ram. Highly recommended. :thumb2
 
i put a WD Black Caviar drive in my 24" iMac and it failed a year or so later. won't be buying another one of those, especially bearing in mind how awkward it was to fit :mad:

i've never had a samsung fail yet, so i'd probably fit one of those. they are quiet and cheap, and used to come with a 3 year warranty, even with the OE brown box models.
 
I don't know whether an iMac is 2.5" or 3.5' HDD but I have Seagate Momentus XT hybrid drives (Like this) in both of the 2 MBPro's we own, and they make a big speed difference in both a 2008 Penryn and a 2012 just the same.

They are a lot cheaper than SSD not much more than platter only HDD's, slightly limited on max size (biggest 750GB) as they are 2.5" only, you may need a caddy/adapter or a bit of ingenuity to mount..dunno.

Oldest one nearly 3 years old and spinning fine.
 
Another vote for ifixit over here. Don't worry about the shipping costs and import duty
 
Put a reasonable sized ssd inside to boot and load apps from and a big external drive to keep music photos on. Ocz make some reasonably priced 200gb ssd (159@ maplins agility 3 model) and take your pick of external drives.
 
I have approx 30 HD's in my house at the moment. The failures have been Seagates (3) and WD (1). Interestingly I have some Seagate and one WD IDE Drives left over from the 90's (540mb, 20GB, 3x60GB) that all still work. One Seagate 60GB is in my 2001 G4 iMac, and is still used daily. The ones that have failed have all been much newer (2x320GB, 1x 640GB). I have also had one Samsung go (1TB), but have not had any of my other Samsungs (7x 500GB, 2 1TB fail), so not too put out about it. Howver it did lead to me trying Hitachi's, and so far have had no failures, but only have 3 (all 2TB) and none more than 3 years old.
 
Went with Western Digital Caviar green 2tb in the end. Drive installed today, just reloading OS X. Hope it's a good disc...

Cheers Y'all
 
All's well that ends well....

Good luck with it Stevie, hope it lasts.

I'm now seriously thinking of saving up and replacing the HDD in my i7 Macbook Pro with an SSD, my daughter has an i5 Macbook Air for Uni studies and it really flies with its solid state storage.

I just fitted my first ever SSD to my sons gaming rig, a 256GB Vortex 4 as his C: drive with Win 7 on it and moved his old 1Tb WD drive to be his bulk storage. It is absolutely blistering, once you try an SSD you'll hate mechanical drives.

The WD Green drives are pretty slow, designed to be energy saving rather than performance, but I've used them reliably for a few years.
 
Think WD Green's were primarily used for bulk storage (in NAS's etc where speed wasn't an issue) before they brought out the Red's specifically for that application.

That's what I've used them for anyway. Have run one for 3-4 years reliably in my old NAS.

OCZ Vertex 4's are very good in the right system, but I have heard that they can be unreliable, in that they can fail suddenly for no apparent reason (like any SSD) but more prone to it that others. Found this out after I'd just bought one :blast

Should have bought one of these OWC SSD's, as they are supposed to be the dogs nuts for macs having read around a bit more, http://www.thebookyard.com/product.php?manufacturers_id=18&products_id=6756
 
Sorry Micky, thats a damned expensive SSD and too much for my budget. Thanks for the link though.

No doubt the price and size of SSD (and reliability) will only improve with time.

Not heard about the OCZ Vertex 4 being unreliable, plenty of rumours about the Samsung drives though which is why I chose OCZ.
 
Just a thought. Apple are going through a HD replacement programme at present, because of failure of HD drives in iMacs. I've had mine done. Any chance your old drive could have been suspect, and they'd missed you off the recall list?
 
Gipsy said:
Just a thought. Apple are going through a HD replacement programme at present, because of failure of HD drives in iMacs. I've had mine done. Any chance your old drive could have been suspect, and they'd missed you off the recall list?
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from what I've read it was the 2009's that were affected. Mine's a 2007. Interestingly the drive I took out was Western Digital too...I think the affected ones were Seagates..?

Anyway, new drive working fine and I'm a happy bunny again. Amazing, a 2TB drive for £74 :clap
 
Pukmeister said:
Good luck with it Stevie, hope it lasts.

I'm now seriously thinking of saving up and replacing the HDD in my i7 Macbook Pro with an SSD, my daughter has an i5 Macbook Air for Uni studies and it really flies with its solid state storage.

I just fitted my first ever SSD to my sons gaming rig, a 256GB Vortex 4 as his C: drive with Win 7 on it and moved his old 1Tb WD drive to be his bulk storage. It is absolutely blistering, once you try an SSD you'll hate mechanical drives.

The WD Green drives are pretty slow, designed to be energy saving rather than performance, but I've used them reliably for a few years.
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So far I'm quite impressed. No slower than the 7200rpm hd I took out. I'm no 'techie' by any stretch, but I believe the caviar green delivers data in bigger lumps, so even though spindle speed is lower there is pretty much no speed difference....:nenau

SSD is just too expensive at the moment. I've got a macbook air i5 with 250gb SSD. SSD is deffo the future, but at current prices, it's not the present.....at least for me anyway.:D
 
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