![]() ![]() I began by backing up my internal 1TB hard disk, plugged in the external SSD, formatted it, installed OS X Mavericks on it and used Migration Assistant to transfer all of my software to it. It took a number of hours to set everything up. I found that Lacie offers a 120GB SSD Thunderbolt drive for $199 CDN and thought I had nothing to lose since this alternative, if it worked, would be FAR cheaper than the alternatives offered to me by my local Apple dealer. After hours and hours of searching the 'net for the best solution, I stumbled on a number of blogs & websites that wrote about their experience with using an external Thunderbolt drive on iMacs the same vintage as my own. My local Apple dealer suggested installing more RAM (I have 8GB and I am by no means a 'power user') and installing an internal SSD or upgrading the computer. ![]() I've had issues for ages with my iMac being slow always accompanied by excessive hard disk read/write noises. ![]() I just thought I would share my recent experience with updating my mid-2011 27" model iMac with an external Thunderbolt SSD drive to avoid the cost and hassle of installing an SSD drive internally. ![]()
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