#HARD DRIVE FOR IMAC 2016 HOW TO#
#HARD DRIVE FOR IMAC 2016 INSTALL#
#HARD DRIVE FOR IMAC 2016 PRO#
#HARD DRIVE FOR IMAC 2016 MAC#
#HARD DRIVE FOR IMAC 2016 WINDOWS#

Most internal drives sold today are 7200 RPM. The HDD component of a Fusion Drive spins at 5400 RPM. While not common, this has happened to a few friends of mine. Of special note, the technology that “melds” the SSD and HDD components of a Fusion Drive can fail, even if the separate components are otherwise fine, leaving you with an inaccessible drive. I wanted to go with the future.įurther, Flash Storage, because it has no moving parts, is more reliable than a Fusion Drive. Even the Fusion Drive (which is a combination of SSD and HDD) will likely be gone. Within a few years, I expect HDDs (hard disk drives) to be history. In fact, thanks to design improvements in the 2015 iMacs, Apple claims the iMac’s Flash Storage is “ up to 2.5 times faster” than the SSD in 2014 iMacs.Ī Fusion Drive is quiet, but an SSD is not only quieter, it’s completely silent. So I knew that the drive was adequately fast and very quiet. My wife already had an iMac with 3TB Fusion Drive.

#HARD DRIVE FOR IMAC 2016 MAC#

I figured I’d be buying a new Mac before I outgrew that much space. While I could have gotten by with a 2TB drive, it was worth a $100 to have the roominess of an extra TB. While I believe there is no single best choice that applies to everyone, after much internal debate, I found the right one for me.Īt first, it seemed so simple. The dilemma? Whether to get a Fusion Drive or Flash (SSD) Storage? And, especially if the latter, what size drive? So much so, that I almost returned the machine. Even after the iMac arrived, my uncertainty remained.

It’s the reason it took me several months from the announcement of the new iMacs last October to finally make the purchase a few weeks ago. However, my indecision over one sticking point almost wound up derailing the move. Overall, I couldn’t be more pleased. The display alone has been enough to justify the upgrade.

#HARD DRIVE FOR IMAC 2016 PRO#

Installed some apps and updates.Recently, I bid adieu to my 7-year-old Mac Pro and replaced it with a 27-inch 5K Retina display iMac. The only thing showing now is the current new APFS container, with correct names and sizes.ĭrive speed test shows good speeds, no crashes so far. If you watched my video, the ghost drives from diskutil list disappeared. Crashed again.ģrd time we did PRAM and NVRAM reset, run the installer again and no crash, Restarted, with apple logo and a timer.įinished with a working OS and booted to the welcome screen.Ĭurrently its still running, and the partition table cleaned up.

#HARD DRIVE FOR IMAC 2016 INSTALL#

Install still crashed but we were able to use my disk utility and reformat to APFS, and run the installer again. Surprisingly worked, and was able to format the drive in HFS in 15 seconds. This way we tried to format the drive using the new macbook pro's disk utility. We connected another macbook pro with a thunderbolt cable to mine, and turned mine on while holding T. Then another genius came up with an idea that became the solution. I was thinking differently, because it was fine a few hours earlier. Took it to apple store and started working on it with genius bar guys.Īfter 3 hours most of them gave up and said needs an ssd repair because this is a hardware issue($800). The only sign on the screen was a circle with a diagonal line in it. My APFS container was damaged and disk utility was unable to resolve it. Kernel panic happened with disk utility and terminal. I decided to format the drive and reinstall clean because i had a lot of clutter on it and moved everything to cloud, so i can have more space.įollowed the apple guideline and made a bootable installer USB.įollowed the erase process, and in the middle of that my MBP crashed with a kernel panic.

#HARD DRIVE FOR IMAC 2016 WINDOWS#

The background: MBP 2016 with TB, updated normally, converted to APFS and had at one point windows running on it with bootcamp.

If you run into this same situation(rare case really) this is how it was fixed.

This is the official answer from me on what fixed the issue.

#HARD DRIVE FOR IMAC 2016 HOW TO#

No % shown but after unmounting everything it hang for a few secs and crashes again.Ĭannot load back to the original OS either.Īlso diskutil list shows 22 disks for some reason that i do not understand.Īnyone have any idea what to do? How to clean the SSD for a full clean install? I can try erase from the disk utility and it does the same. When in gets to 50%, it crashes again and restarts.įormat does not happen. Looked online and found a topic here and found out that you can delete the apfs container manually in terminal with diskutil.įound a YT video explaining it and it worked until the process actually started. Unfortunately this did not work, and the erase process crashed. The computer was working fine earlier today, but had a lot of crap on it and I wanted to start fresh. I made a USB stick with Mojave, restarted with Command+R, went into disk util, and wanted to erase my SSD to start the install.

Hard drive for imac 2016