Extra ssd instalation

Maybe have someone some info about extra ssd instalation into 2011 model 27 iMac (http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/specs/imac-core-i7-3.4-27-inch-alumin um-mid-2011-thunderbolt-specs.html) by apple support service?
I live in the Nederlands and would like to ask support by apple to help improve my iMac (still with Apple Protection Plan).
Is it possible? and how much does it cost? and how much time it takes? and most importance - who I have to call for this service?
thx for any help

Apple does not upgrade hard drives after the computer has been purchased. You'll have to go to an Apple Certified 3rd party computer repair shop to determine the cost. If an un-certified shop opens up your iMac, your AppleCare will be voided.

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I have to admit that this is way above my skills
if someone can help me, I made some sudo commands in yosemite, to share here and eventually find a solution...
diskutil list
/dev/disk0
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   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Mac OS X                59.6 GB    disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
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   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *128.0 GB   disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                127.8 GB   disk1s2
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          0          1 PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
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         40     409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640 116448792 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
116858432    1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
118127968 858645167
976773135         32         Sec GPT table
976773167          1         Sec GPT header
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          0          1         MBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
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         40     409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
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     411648 249657344 2 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
250068992        655
250069647         32         Sec GPT table
250069679          1         Sec GPT header
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0              geometry: 60801/255/63 [976773168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 976773167] <Unknown ID>
2: 00    0 0   0 -    0 0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
3: 00    0 0   0 -    0 0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
4: 00    0 0   0 -    0 0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
sudo fdisk /dev/disk1
Disk: /dev/disk1              geometry: 15566/255/63 [250069680 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
*2: 07   25 159   7 - 1023 254 63 [ 411648 - 249657344] HPFS/QNX/AUX
3: 00    0 0   0 -    0 0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
4: 00    0 0   0 -    0 0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
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Can you boot Windows from SSD when it is in the Main drive bay?
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Storage1
2.5 GHz
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2.7 GHz
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Anonymous UUID: 0324BA3D-2238-F9DA-88F3-7A5EABC15FB3
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panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff8020bc1694): "launchd died\nState at Last Exception:\n\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2782.10.72/bsd/kern/kern_exit.c:361
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0xffffff812aa73f40 : 0xffffff8020bc135c
0xffffff812aa73f50 : 0xffffff8020c4b386
0xffffff812aa73fb0 : 0xffffff8020836e86
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Model: Macmini5,1, BootROM MM51.0077.B10, 2 processors, Intel Core i5, 2.3 GHz, 8 GB, SMC 1.76f0
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000, Intel HD Graphics 3000, Built-In, 512 MB
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1333 MHz, 0x857F, 0x483634353155363446393333334700000000
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1333 MHz, 0x857F, 0x483634353155363446393333334700000000
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0xE4), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.106.98.100.17)
Bluetooth: Version 4.1.7f4 12974, 3 service, 21 devices, 3 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Ethernet, Ethernet, en0
Serial ATA Device: ST9500420AS, 500.11 GB
USB Device: hub_device, 0x0424 (SMSC), 0x2513, 0xfa100000 / 2
USB Device: hub_device, 0x04cc (Philips Semiconductors), 0x1521, 0xfa130000 / 4
USB Device: Hub in Apple Extended USB Keyboard, apple_vendor_id, 0x1003, 0xfa136000 / 8
USB Device: Apple Extended USB Keyboard, apple_vendor_id, 0x020b, 0xfa136300 / 9
USB Device: BRCM20702 Hub, 0x0a5c (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0xfa110000 / 3
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, apple_vendor_id, 0x8281, 0xfa113000 / 5
USB Device: hub_device, 0x0424 (SMSC), 0x2513, 0xfd100000 / 2
USB Device: PTZ-930, 0x056a (WACOM Co., Ltd.), 0x00b2, 0xfd130000 / 4
USB Device: IR Receiver, apple_vendor_id, 0x8242, 0xfd110000 / 3
FireWire Device: OXFORD IDE Device 1, EZ QUEST, 800mbit_speed
FireWire Device: OXFORD IDE Device 1, EZ QUEST, 800mbit_speed

thanks the replies. OWC sold me the kit, cable etc based on the Macmini's specs. I talked with support and the drive I installed should work with no issues.
They did have me reset the PRAM which did. They also told me I might need to install Yosemite 'several times before is sticks' - whatever that means. lol.
Anyway I zapped the PRAM. So far no mysterious restarts with the drive being unrecognized.
One thing I didn't mention though...
MacMini is in a backyard home office (about a 100 feet away with buried CAT6 cable connecting it to the network). I was using Screen Share from my MBP reinstall all my work software. Every crash occurred while using screenshare. I never had any crashes when I was actually sitting at the computer.
I don't know if that has anything to do with it - but I haven't used ScreenShare for any length of time to control the Mac mini since the pram zap. Figured I'll use the computer for a week or so and see how stable it is and then try using screenshare again and see if the behavior repeats itself.
Meanwhile I'll keep my fingers crossed.
I'm just suspect that it was a PRAM issue. But I'm a layman.

Windows 7 SSD Install - SLOW with Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R

Hey guys,
I've been trying to reinstall Windows 7 onto this SSD for the past few hours. The bad thing about it, is that 1. When I try to reformat the drive via the installation disk (or even DiskPart), the format fails. I have to format the disk via Minitool Partition
Wizard. I believe that's irrelevant.
When trying to install Windows 7 with a GA-EP45-UD3R motherboard, I get to the expanding windows files portion and it's DEATHLY slow. For example, I let it sit there from 0% and it got to 14% within an hour. Mathematically speaking, that's a total of 6 and
a half hours for a Windows 7 install.
The SSD is plugged in with a typical SATA cable, but I just don't know what else to do at this point. I've disabled my floppy drive, entered the controller via AHCI mode. No avail.
Does anyone have any idea of what it could be?

It can be something related to hardware only, are all the devices compatible to each other ? BIOS updated?
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Dual Boot Selection with two SSD Installed

I have two SAMSUNG SSD's installed in the W540.
SSD #1 -- Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
SSD #2 -- Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
The SSD's had a complete install of each Microsoft Windows operating system without using the dual boot manager. I select teh SSD to boot from by using teh F12 key at boot time.
On my previous computer (HP EliteBook Workstation 8560w), the BIOS had a option to display a boot selection menu for me to select from without having to manually select the option to display. The boot selection menu gave me 20-30 seconds to select a alternative boot option. If I did not respond it woudl boot to the primary drive.
Can the Lenovo W540 be setup the same way? I can find no options in the latest BIOS.

I am honestly dubious that your previous HP machine had anything in the BIOS to provide this "Boot Manager" functionality you've described. Your description is exactly what Boot Manager in Windows does, which probably what was in effect on your HP machine.
Now you say you installed two separate versions of Windows on two separate drives, and without involving Windows Boot Manager. That suggests to me that you unplugged the other SSD when you did each install, so that the Windows installer didn't even know about the other bootable OS when doing its current install. If it had seen the other pre-existing bootable Windows, then the second install would have triggered the creation of a 2-OS boot menu (identical to what you say you saw on your old HP machine). You could still have two bootable Windows, on two separate drives (or, you could also have installed to two separate partitions on one drive if you wanted to), and at boot time Boot Manager would present the menu to you and you'd select one or the other. The most recent Windows to get installed would probably have made itself the "default", so that after 10-30 seconds it would auto-boot to that Windows if you didn't arrow up/down and press ENTER to select the other Windows for this particular boot.
The BIOS of the machine has a "boot sequence" setup, and one of your two SSD drives MUST be first, in front of the other. So at boot time by default (in the absence of F12 to select a boot device) the BIOS would normally go to THAT "first" drive in the boot sequence list, locate the "active" partition on that drive (where Boot Manager is assumed to live), and start the boot process. If Boot Manager sees a 1-OS boot menu, it just goes to that partition (as C, where Windows lives on that drive) and starts Windows. If a 2-OS boot menu exists, Boot Manager presents it to you and you decide which Windows you want to boot to.
When you push F12 at boot time, you simply say to the BIOS "let me pick which of my drives I want you to go to, to then find the "active" partition on that drive to kick off the boot process". Since you did two completely independent Windows installs, I would say that you probably have a "system reserved" partition (which is marked "active") on each SSD, along with a C system partition (for Windows) on each SSD. So you can actually boot to either drive, via F12, or you can just let the machine boot to whichever one you know to be first in the boot sequence list.
But... if you'd simply installed your second Windows to the second SSD while the first Windows/SSD was still cabled and visible, the second Windows install would have done everything you're now asking to be done. The existing 1-OS boot menu (on the first SSD) would have been seen and updated by the Windows installer, to add the second Windows to the menu which would thus now be a 2-OS boot menu. The second Windows would get installed wherever you wanted it to get installed (i.e. to the second SSD), and all would be well with the world.
Note that had this taken place, no second "system reserved" partition (marked "active", and housing the second copy of Boot Manager) would have been created on the second SSD with the second installed Windows. The existing "system reserved" (marked "active", and living on the first drive in the BIOS boot sequence list) would simply have had its boot menu updated from 1-OS to 2-OS, and you'd be home free right now.
This is exactly how Boot Manager works. I'm sure your old HP machine had such a setup, with your two Windows installed sequentially over time, and with the second one recognizing the first one's existence and adding itself to the boot menu to produce a 2-OS boot menu which is what you saw. That wasn't from the BIOS. It was from Windows Boot Manager handling a 2-OS boot menu.
So, what can you do now? Well, technically, you only need one "active" partition (i.e. "system reserved", where Boot Manager lives) on the first SSD in your BIOS boot sequence list. You won't need the second "system reserved" which in my opinion was probably created (unnecessarily) when you did your second Windows install with the first SSD temporarily disconnected.
But the goal here is to get the 1-OS boot menu that's on the first SSD "system reserved" partition updated, to add the second Windows on the second SSD, producing a 2-OS boot menu. And to do that you can use a wonderful 3rd-party product named EasyBCD. It is a tool to maintain your boot menu, and you can manually do things after-the-fact (like now) which you should have done before, or simply to perform maintenance or changes.
So, with both SSD's cabled and operational (your current booted Windows will appear as C, and probably your other drive's Windows partition will thus appear as D to the current booted Windows), you run EasyBCD. It really doesn't matter which Windows is on the first SSD and that is first in the BIOS boot sequence, only that it will be the boot menu in the "system reserved" partition on that drive which will be manipulated by EasyBCD to become the 2-OS menu. You can make either Windows the default (which will auto-boot in 10 seconds if you don't select the other Windows), no matter which SSD it's on.
You can view the current boot menu (from the currently booted Windows) via EDIT. You pick which entry is to be the "default".
To add a new entry to the boot menu, push the ADD button and navigate to the drive (D) the Windows to be added lives on.
If you don't already have same, I would recommend you have a "system image" backup of both of your bootable Windows drives (to an external USB 3.0 drive, ideally), so that if you're skittish about doing this you'll at least be able to quickly and easily restore what you currently have from your backups.
But believe me, EasyBCD can be trusted to do exactly what you want to do... which is to create a 2-OS boot menu on your first drive's "system reserved" partition. This 2-OS boot menu will name BOTH of your two bootable Windows, from your two SSD drives. You won't need to push F12 to select the boot device, just let the machine go to the first drive in the boot sequence and kick off Boot Manager, and the rest will behave exactly as you are now seeking.
Let me know if you have questions. And for sure, let us know how it turns out.

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