{"id":3386,"date":"2011-05-12T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T01:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3386"},"modified":"2011-05-12T20:24:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T01:24:03","slug":"imac-hard-drive-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/12\/imac-hard-drive-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"iMac Hard Drive Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.macsales.com\/10146-apple-further-restricts-upgrade-options-on-new-imacs\">Other World Computing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blog.macsales.com\/10146-apple-further-restricts-upgrade-options-on-new-imacs\"><p>For the main 3.5&#8243; SATA hard drive bay in the new 2011 machines, Apple has altered the SATA power connector itself from a standard 4-pin power configuration to a 7-pin configuration. Hard drive temperature control is regulated by a combination of this cable and Apple proprietary firmware on the hard drive itself. From our testing, we&rsquo;ve found that removing this drive from the system, or <em>even from that bay itself,<\/em> causes the machine&rsquo;s hard drive fans to spin at maximum speed and replacing the drive with any non-Apple original drive will result in the iMac failing the Apple Hardware Test (AHT).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hard drives fail and are also prime candidates for upgrading your Mac. It&rsquo;s too bad that the Intel iMacs have made it increasingly difficult to replace drives, whereas it&rsquo;s become much easier for MacBooks and MacBook Pros.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other World Computing: For the main 3.5&#8243; SATA hard drive bay in the new 2011 machines, Apple has altered the SATA power connector itself from a standard 4-pin power configuration to a 7-pin configuration. Hard drive temperature control is regulated by a combination of this cable and Apple proprietary firmware on the hard drive itself. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3387,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386\/revisions\/3387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}