I would like to replace my Hitachi 2TB installed in my iMac 27 icore5 3.6 mid 2010. Does it come with the internal heat sensor? Thanks
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Sorry, no idea. Stopped using Macs about 15 years ago. But afaik, no, its a standard hard drive with no other special pieces.
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It was in 2009 that Apple went to an internal heat sensor in the hard drives. It is discussed in the Apple forums here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3860372 . I would use an external box that uses thunder bolt which is as fast as the internal bus speed the 2tb drive is connected to. The firewire box you are trying to use might be limited by the chip used in it to 2 tb. I replaced a hard drive in a 2007 iMac with no problem using ifixit.com. It still had the external heat sensor.
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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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I believe the drive that is compatible with my iMac has a 4pin connector instead of the standard 8pin on top of the sata connection.
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I don't have a MAC, but to my knowledge this is Sata and they all provide info via the Sata cables.. othern than that this drive is barebones.
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NOT that one! I bought the wrong one actually. The large end of THAT cable goes into my 2010 iMac FW800 port but u need an adapter to fit on the other end that will convert it to 'old style' FireWire 400 from the earlier macs. I never got around to getting the adapter. I took the HD out of the old Mac and put it into an enclosure. The pictured cable AND the old style FW adapter should work 4 U though.
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Hello ADave, the one that I got was def. for a 3.5" drive. The drive that I installed into it came from a home "tower" style computer, Dell if I remember correctly. Have you tried to install a drive into it yet? The case for mine was actually quite a bit bigger than and drive, prob for heat dissipation, but def for a 3.5" drive. Mine works flawlessly and allowed me to recover the info I had in the computer that died. I now use it for a back up storage.
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I have a Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000 2 TB in this enclosure running on windows 7. It shows my drive is connected but I can't see in anywhere in My Computer. What the hell am I doing wrong? Does it support 2 TB? Any advice would be great. Thank you!
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I believe it's Hitachi. I love this drive. I use it for video editing and it's pretty solid.
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i would call the imac company to see its there product they should be able to tell you
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I use this drive as my BootCamp (Win8.1) on a new Mac Pro. I keep it up in a wire trough under my desk. I have been through the wiring a few times, and have not noticed this drive to be warm. I think the moving drives generate more heat than the SSDs.
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I would't risk it. I bought this dock and connected 2 Seagate 3TBs. It initially worked, so I went ahead and back up ALL my data. The next day the dock kept getting disconnected and now my IMAC won't even mount the drives. I tried another dock and seems that the drives have been fried by the Thermaltake dock. There goes 2.5TB of data!
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I am using a 4yr old iMac with OS10.9.3 and used Disk Utility to format the Buffalo to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) as soon as I received it so I did not try to use it in the native pc format. I am connected directly from a USB port on the rear of the iMac and everything appears to be great with no problems with any operation. Very pleased with this HD.
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If it fits in the hard drive slot of your computer, then it should fit in the Thermaltake. My Apple MacBook hard drive fit in it fine.
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This is a server edition hard drive with Sas interface, the iMac has a Sata interface, check this link https://es.ifixit.com/Guide/iMac+Intel+27-Inch+EMC+2309+and+2374+Hard+Drive+Replacement/1634, so this is not the correct hard drive
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I don't remember, however, I have a mid 2007 iMac 24" and this memory works perfectly and installed it with no issues whatsoever. I've been using the computer with this exact memory installed for months with no issues.
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Hello Linda, I have a 2TB version that works flawlessly with my 21" iMac (3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo version) running OS X 10.8.4 I see no reason for it to not work with your new MacBook.Best regards.
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A.J., Thanks for your post, I have just done the same thing and it works a treat. My Mac picked up the Seagate drive on the desktop with no bother. Seems like the case and heat issues are letting Seagate down here.F
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Yes; that's why I bought the first one...but I think I'll be needing to get another one soon, for my Mac; as this one is in continual use backing up my data. In doing so, I have recently learned, that this tends to cause excessive wear on the internals thus shortening the life of this unit. I don't remember the exact date I bought this one but it's been about two years, give or take. Hope this helps you.
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I would not buy this item. The drive is one of the slowest thunderbolts out there. The drives are not user serviceable. If a drive fails u need to send it in. I experienced cooling issues with this unit as well.
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I did not get a disk with the mac because there is no drive built into the newer imacs. I transferred everything from my old imac so ilife must have transferred to the new imac i.e. I do not know if it was already loaded or transferred.