Some side notes. Done three of these now and if you are careful you definitely do not need to take out the display and unhook all those tiny cables. Have someone hold the display back enough to take out the HDD screws and pull out drive. Def enough space to do so without detaching any cables. Save yourself ton of time and headache. Also Macs Fan Control also solves the fan issue without needing the temp sensor.
Well looks like popping in the HDD back in, turning machine on, shutting down, taking HDD out and popping SSD back in fixed the fan issues. Weird but successful.
Tried two iMacs and worked great. Third one though resulted in all three fans spinning at max after booting up with new SSD drive. Tried resetting SMC and PRAM to no avail. Any ideas why this may be? Thanks.
Tried this for the first time and definitely easy peasy! Also realized you do not need to detach any of the LCD cables. Having someone hold the display up a bit to unscrew the two hard drive screws is enough to get it out. Also tried out Macs Fan Control for now and seems to be working fine.
Is there anyway to put attach two 2.5 drives. Say one SSD and one bigger spinning 2.5” drive for storage. Have a bracket that can hold two drives so was wondering if there is a way to daisy chain two drives. If not I assume one could disconnect the CD drive and use those cables? thanks.
