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I can confirm that this issue applies for the late 2012 iMac as well.
Still, use such adaptors with caution! Even if it's really low-tech (narrowing the pin layout a bit, no electronics needed), they may be faulty and might damage to your hardware.įurthermore, don't forget about the fan issue when swapping the HDD as well: The iMac's internal fan controller won't recognize the HDD temperature of a non-pre installed HDD, even if it's the same brand and model: Apple has built proprietary firmware for the drives shipped with Macs, probably to prevent users from swapping them.
#Apple imac hdd fan control pro
I only found one called "MacBook Pro 2012 mSATA adaptor", but that one worked as well, so the connector in 2012 MacBook Pro seems to be the same as the one in my iMac. Those are easily found on the Internet on various online shops, and usually called "iMac 2012 mSATA adaptor" or anything similar. But I can also confirm that the connector used by the Apple SSD is not mSATA: Although it has the same pin layout, the pins are smaller and don't fit the connector of an mSATA SSD.įortunately, I can confirm a third thing: There are adaptors available to convert this proprietary apple connector to a standard mSATA connector. I can confirm that swapping the apple SSD for some other SSD is possible in the late 2012 iMac.
#Apple imac hdd fan control series
They have a series of SSDs (Aura 6G) compatible with the late 2012 model of the 27" iMac: The only other supplier of compatible SSDs than Apple that I know of is OWC (Macsales). Such an adapter would need to include an amount of electronics, as it is a completely different interface - i.e. I have seen no adapters on the market that will allow you to connect an ordinary SATA drive to the proprietary connector. The slot is proprietary, and it is not an M.2 or mSATA slot. I used Crucial Memory and your iMac can get up to 32GB of RAM
#Apple imac hdd fan control upgrade
While you are doing all these upgrades, I would upgrade the memory as well. I've actually answered this question on another thread: 27 imac Late 2012 HDD Failure