They took a few days longer than the 3-day turnaround advertised but as I mentioned, I was a picky customer asking for custom solutions. OWC's Turnkey service did a fantastic job. No more spinning beach ball of doom whenever I want to do something other than look at my Photo library. Clicking through the library, checking folders, editing pictures, all of it is available to me as I click it. Between the fast drives and the 32 GB of RAM, it takes maybe 10 seconds for Photos to load to the point where I can start actively working. When everything launched, it was exactly as if I'd never sent the Mac away to begin with (other than the mind-numbing speed, of course). I had to reauthorize a couple of programs and iTunes purchases made under an old account but that would have been the same for any new system.Īs far as space goes, after DaisyDisk tore through drive analysis in a couple of seconds, it confirmed that I don't just have a little room to play with for keeping OS X and my storage-hungry programs happy, I have Julie-Andrews-spinning-on-a mountain-top-vista kind of space (Laserbeak and Buzzsaw are the new drives, because I'm a huge '80s geek).Īnd that dragon, Photos? Slayed. OWC did a perfect job transplanting my system from the old hard drive to the new SSDs.
#Hard space finale for mac upgrade
the Mercury Electra internal drives that OWC used for the upgrade threaten to break the Blackmagicdesign Disk Speed Test. Which isn't all that surprising, because as fast as the read/write times were from the LaCie and Samsung drives. But you're not here to listen to me ramble on about the carved off pieces of my computer that they sent home like so many kidney stones in a glass jar, you want to hear about the iMac.īoot time has improved even more than the sub-30 second boot time I saw when I was using an external SSD. As for the RAM, if this had been a normal upgrade, I actually could have sold it to OWC (a note, OWC provided parts and labor for this upgrade so I could evaluate their service). My old hard drive is destined for the enclosure and will serve as a Time Machine drive once I'm satisfied I don't need the data.
#Hard space finale for mac how to
After a lot of back and forth with the OWC technicians about how to configure my three SSDs (I went with a custom RAID setup, something that they don't usually do but is technically possible), my upgraded iMac, my original hard drive and RAM, and a new external hard drive enclosure and card reader headed back to Florida.
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