Is this drive PATA/IDE and what's the height on it? To be more precise, will this drive fit in a 17" Intel iMac?
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Most of this era iMac's have a special SuperDrive. It mounts about 1/2" further back than a normal drive. If you substitute a MacBook Drive for one of these, you will not be able to push the CD/DVD far enough into the drive, to allow the mechanism to grab the disk and pull it into the drive. I do not suggest you use this drive. Use the Profile Manager to get the part number of the installed drive, and get that exact one.
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Im not sure. I fits in my 5 year old apple macbook pro. I'm not an expert at this....
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The drive has a specific cable connection to the MacBook. It will not fit a PATA/IDE connector. I don't know the connections on the iMac, but I doubt it would connect.
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The height is 9.5MM.If you can read out the hard drive part number you currently have, we can double check.
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I have an iMac 24 (2008) and iMac27 (2011) ... and am trying to initialize this drive on either, and the systems only seem to see 1.8TB - not 4TB. The website that they direct you to is very cagey on this - the drives say there is not problem, but there is an asterisk that says you may only be able to access 2tb of the drive. I'm wondering if you ever got this working. I am trying to install the drive in a box on the Firewire 400 and 800 channels though ... not sure if the SATA interface would be any better. This is kind of nonsense ... one would think they not want to sell these drives to people who cannot use them and have to return them for a refund ... but? Did you get your drive installed? By the way I just wonder what the people who respond to this that have no idea are trying to accomplish by that? Kind of silly wasting everyone's and their own time?
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Should be the same size as a standard hard drive. But check with your local apple stores, first to be sure.
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The size matches, and a 1" thick drive fits, too. The enclosure accepts SATA drives only, not IDE drives. Please verify that.
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I have one running in an IBM T20. I is an IDE/PATA drive and works fine. Now the computer is not up to modern standards but it too is chugging along.
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Yes, but it won't be easy! https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iMac+Intel+24-Inch+EMC+2267+Optical+Drive+Replacement/9027
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Hello Jan, I'm Jewel with Kingston Technical Support, here to address your question. If you have the 15 or 17-inch Mid 2010 Macbook Pro those do support 2.5inch 9.5mm SATA drives. As such our V300 SSD will fit within the drive bay. For any further assistance, please call us at 1-800-435-0640 (USA and Canada only) M - F 6am - 6pm PT and I or another available Technician will assist you. Thank you for selecting Kingston as your upgrade partner.
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I'm actually using this as the boot drive on a desktop PC. In mine, the drive fits the mounting rails that would otherwise be used by a floppy drive. The connectors are, of course, SATA and not IDE; You can tell them apart because IDE uses a wide (2-inch), ridged ribbon cable and SATA cables are about a half inch wide and smooth.
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Dwzyne, this case is designed for an IDE drive and the one me listed is a SATA - different configurations. I have an IDE drive that I bounguth mine for, but I've not been able to contact the seller to determine why I have not received mine. - Bob
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You need to determine the "specs" on the current HD in your Mac.....obviously the one critical element is that your current HD is 2.5 Inch size versus 3.5 Inch that is used in most desktops....I am not familiar with Macs since this Western Digital went into a Compaq running Win7. The drive is superb and the price on Amazon the most competitive around. Hope this helps.
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As it is a drive with both SATA connections and is a standard 2.5" hard drive size, it should fit without any problems. I tested it with my late 2007 MBP and it works just fine.
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No, it's PATA as shown on the website, which is the same as IDE. It will work in older machines with IDE but not in newer machines that have SATA.
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My research indicates that this would fit as an ide (pata) drive is pretty much the same regardless of brand. You may have to switch out the bezel to make it work ,& swap out the bracket. The drivers are usually generic ones downloaded by your operating system.
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My Imac is an older version too and I bought this hard drive and I love it. I have no problems with it at all. It is top of the line I think. I highly recommend it!
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Thank you for asking and all the responses, that had me confused too. It looked like a small drive but the dimensions were off. I'm also looking at getting the hard case recommended but that dimensions listed would not have fit. I'm grateful to have found my question already answered.
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I've used this in a desktop, but the form factor is the same of the others 2.5", just slightly slimmer, it should fit in any 2.5" sata bay. You can find the exact dimensions on the vendor though