Hard Drive Replacement iMac 27 i7 early 2011

Hello everyone, I just bought an iMac 27 early 2011 and would like to change the hard disk to a SSD but I read that you can not do!
Can you help me?

I agree with you, but I would still change the hard drive I with a non-Apple to spend less, you know you can?

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Does replacing the hard drive in a MacBook Pro early 2011, as described in the manual, void AppleCare?

here's one of the provisions....
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How much noise should the hard drive make on a MBP early 2011?

Had since May/June last year i5 13" and only since I applied all updates few weeks ago it seems to be louder than it was before?
It sounds like a fan but isn't... obviously. Right hand side of track pad, and covering it, in fact just touching it dampens it to barely audible. Is that normal or has something gone a bit weird? A constant fan noise, which isn't the fan is now there permanently.

How much noise should the hard drive make on a MBP early 2011?
None.
The machine should only make noise if the Superdrive is being used or the CPU's heavily used, going by my Early 2011 17".
It sounds like a fan but isn't... obviously. Right hand side of track pad, and covering it, in fact just touching it dampens it to barely audible. Is that normal or has something gone a bit weird? A constant fan noise, which isn't the fan is now there permanently.
It's possible it wasn't installed correctly and/or the case is slightly off so it's resonating the hard drive vibrations.
Make sure you have a internet connection (don't move) and reboot the machine holding the d key down like forever and Hardware Test will run.
Backup your data off the machine, if the hard drive dies under 1 year or three years with Applecare, then go get a new one. else you can replace it yourself with a better one and not void your warranty if you don't break anything doing so. Add more RAM while your at it.
http://eshop.macsales.com/installvideos/
As you know Mac's are made by hand by young Chinese women working 12 hour shifts performing the same function every 7 seconds for only $1.20 a hour. They live 7 to a box room and have to pay 70¢ a meal.
All in all I would say they are very tired, and it's possilbe a few defects made it to your machine.

Replacement hard drive on Macbook Pro 13in early 2011 advice needed!

Hi!
I am replacing the hard drive in my MacBook Pro 13in from early 2011. The choices I can afford are either the Seagate 500GB 7200 rpm or the WD Scorpio Blue 500GB 5400rpm drive. I heard that the faster spinning drive causes reduced battery life and more noise. Is this true? Which one would you all suggest I choose?
Thanks!!

Hi,
I am using the same model with upgraded RAM. I am also changing my hard drive to a SSD which can't be compared to a spinning drive. The best choice would be getting a SSD, however, if you have to choose between those two you listed, I would go with Seagate. Not only because it is affordable, but also most of manufactured laptops have that brand. About the battery life and more noise, that statement is "true", but it is not noticeable. I mean, faster spinning will consume more battery than slower spinning of course, but it will not effect your battery life significantly. Because it is spinning faster, it will have faster read/write ability than 5400 rpm HDDs. Overall, it really depends on how much budget you got. A 128 GB or 256 GB SSD would be affordable with a fantastic ability to do many tasks.
I hope it helped you.

Hard drive replacement iMac 24" 2008, what to do next?

I am new on here so sorry if I get this wrong... I am replacing the hard drive on my 24inch iMac, 2008 model. I have checked out the instructions on ifixit and all that seems ok. I have purchased a passport from Apple and partitioned it as suggested and I now have a complete back up in one partition and Maverick on the other. The bit I would appreciate help with is after I put everything back together what steps do I then take to get me up and running. Any help would be appreciated, many thanks

After the new drive is installed, boot up from the external drive, start and hold the option key and then choose the Mavericks partition on the external drive. Then from Finder, Applications, Utilities, choose Disk Utility, select the new internal drive from the left sidebar, then in the main window, select Partition. Keep it at one partition, name that partition, such as Macintosh HD, keep the format as Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) and the default partition table GUID. Apply and let DU format for you. Quit DU when finished.
Then either Restore the external to the new drive, or if you used a clone program like Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper to make your Mavericks install, clone that back to the internal so you have a bootable drive. You can either copy back your other content or reboot holding the Option key, select the internal and finishe booting up.
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Want to upgrade to larger hard drive on IMAC 21.5 mid 2011

My IMAC is HD is almost full and causing my IMAC to run very slow. I have moved iPhoto to an external drive and deleted my imovies but hasn't helped much. Is it possible replace the 1tb drive with a larger one?
Right now I feel like I am using a Windows machine instead of a Mac, everything runs so slow!

Another (and easier) solution would be to get an external drive to hold all your photos and movies and whatever else is filling up your drive and keep a good amount of empty space on your internal drive. Once you move your iPhoto library, you can delete them on your internal.
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And, which OS version?

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Imac hard drive replacement

Incredibly my rarely used 2011 Imac Hard Drive is toast. I saw they have a replacement program but even though it is way too soon for a hard drive OF QUALITY to be going out so soon as mine - mine is not included in the replacement program.
Which I have a problem with - how odd it is that they had enough trouble with these computers/hard drives to do a replacement program but mine which did the same thing, expired way too soon isn't covered. I've not had use of the computer for 4 months while I tried to fix the problem so it lasted a little over a year.
Anyway I need to know what to do to try to replace it myself as i haven't the funds to take it to Apple for repair. Plus, Apple Computers and me are history I will never buy another after spending over $1200 for a computer that's nothing more than a very large paperweight right now.
How do I know what size and all that?
I may not be able to afford even that so more than likely this is going to be a very nice looking worthless computer going to the landfill.

I Am leaning more toward Kappy's comments, based on your attitude and comments, but I will ask some questions and add some useful comments as I am in a somewhat charitable mood.
Do you still have AppleCare on this iMac?
From your rather blunt comments I assume no, but have to ask anyhow.
This is why I recommend purchasing and registering for 3- year extended AppleCare.
Because of the nature of the newer iMac designs, hardware failure seems more likely or commonplace occurrence. I believe it's more of a excessive heat related issue than anything else despite what Apple has qualified as "normal" operating temps for these iMac models.
Check out the iFixit home site and search for iMac disassembly or tear/take down. Or search for iMac hard drive replacement on the site.
Another option is for you to purchase an external FireWire 400/800 drive as your new boot drive.
Running your iMac from a FW800 drive will be about as fast as running it from the iMac's Internal drive.
If you can afford it get as large a drive as you can afford.
And just for your info, while hard drives can last for years without issue they will go bad, eventually.
Some drives crash and burn faster than others. Especiallly true of the notebook style drives that Apple installs into the newer design iMac. With hard drives, the question is not if they will fail, but when will they fail.
If you had all of your data backed up to an extra, external drive or optical discs to begin with, you wouldn't be so upset about your internal drive dying as your data still would've been intact on another drive or discs in the first place.
I Always advocate for having some sort of backup strategy for your important data in the event of hardware or hard drive storage failure.

Can I get a data recovery from Apple if my iMac was in the hard drive replacement programme and I wasn't notified about it?

Basically my iMac just crashed and I searched on Google for replacing my hard drive and came across the iMac 1TB Seagate Hard Drive Replacement Program at http://www.apple.com/support/imac-harddrive/
Which is that Apple is asking all 2009 - 2011 iMac users to return their iMac for a free hard drive replacement because it currently has a fault in it. After entering in my serial number, I see that my iMac is elegible for a replacement.
I did register my iMac with Apple, but I didn't receive any email about this program and I lost all my recent data because of the faulty hard drive. I never had an issue before with the drive so this just happened out of the blue.
Is it possible to get a free data recovery from Apple for this? I find that it was a lack of communication that I lost most of my data.

I completely understand that it's my responsibility to back up my data but I have it set to every 2nd month, not on a weekly or daily basis to back up the data.
Apple might not be in data recovery business but could they not acquire a third party to do this?
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It was on sleep overnight and when I tried waking it, it was lagging badly. So I shut it down and restarted it. I phoned into techincal support to find out whats wrong, but they were giving me advice to reset the params etc. But i think it made it worse because it didnt want to get passed the white start up screen.
So I phoned back to ask if it's a usual issue with my version of iMac and the man replied that it isn't common and that I should run the disk utility to check the hard drives health.
I installed Mountain Lion on a USB and started the disk utility. Then it highlighted in red that it's a hardware fault and cannot be repaired by the disk utility. Therefore the hard drive has a serious fault with it.
That's when I Google'd for a replacement drive and came across the program. The techincal guy didn't even tell me about it or anything.
If I knew about this sooner, I would have taken it in for a replacement.

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As Babowa says, get an external disk. You should have one for normal backups anyway.
Actually, I'm a strong fan of having multiple backups. 3 copies including the original, 2 different backup formats, and 1 backup off-site.
And when you have your iMac in for service, if you have just 1 backup at that point in time you have just 1 copy of your data. I get paranoid about my data.
But if you are just making 1 backup, I would use SuperDuper (free for a full clone, and extremely good software, as is Carbon Copy Cloner, but it is not free anymore).
And then I would "Boot" from the clone, to make sure it was a good clone.
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Just make sure you actually boot from your clone before erasing your original. And if you are paranoid like me, make 2 backups, then erase the original :-)

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Not sure what to suggest at this point. I don't think a smc and pram reset will do anything useful for this case but you could give it a try as a desperation move.
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