How to install ssd in iMac9,1

I see that OWC and other vendors offer solid state drives for my iMac, but they don't explain or show how to install this device. Does it replace my internal hard drive or work with it somehow? I am interested in speeding up my computer's performance especially when working in iPhoto and iMovie where I have tens of thousands of image files. Right now it takes forever just to boot up these applications, and once up, they frequently crash. I have installed the max RAM for my machine (2 x 4gb ddr3).

An iMac 9,1 is an early 2009 model. That should be before Apple started using proprietary hard drive cables, so you can install the SSD to replace your hard drive. This OWC video tells you how to do that (of course you'd need the 3.5" frame to put the smaller SSD into, and OWC offers that). Otherwise, it's no different than replacing the hard drive. You might want to confirm with OWC that the early 2009 iMacs don't have the proprietary hard drive cable. I'm pretty sure those didn't come into play until late 2009.
One other thing, you should know what SATA speed your system supports, which is probably SATA I or SATA II. I put an SATA III speed SSD in a mac mini which supports SATA II speeds, and it ran at SATA I speed. Swapped it out for an SATA II drive, and it runs just fine at SATA II speeds. They are supposed to be backwards compatible, however that's at least one exception. You can see your speed in about this mac, more info, system report, then serial ATA.

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