The procedure is hardly difficult, but it requires patience, a modicum of finesse, and some tools. Frankly, I can’t do better than theĮasy-to-follow and granular guide on, which is what I used the first time. I won’t bore you with the complete tear-down instructions for a 2015 iMac. M13 Feather SSD kit with macOS High Sierra pre-installed. The company armed me with a number of relevant tips, and sent me a 512GB Finally, I stumbled on a company with an office in Birmingham, Alabama calledįledging, whose Feather drives run around 25 cents per gigabyte and are available in up to 2TB of capacity. That’s better, but they were from unfamiliar companies I was unable to chat with. Perusing further, I found Apple-compatible SSDs for around 30 cents per gigabyte. OWC’s compatible drives on Newegg were 40 cents per gigabyte, and Apple’s on Amazon were an incredible $1 a gigabyte! This is 2019: standard M.2 2280 NVMe SSDs start at 15 cents per gigabyte! A huge issue is that Apple uses proprietary connectors.

Finding a NVMe SSD for the upgradeĪs I intimated, there was never any question that the NVMe SSD could be upgraded, just whether it could be done for a reasonable price. With the disclaimers out of the way, here’s how you can upgrade an iMac’s NVMe SSD with something cheaper, faster, and more capacious. If you’re careful, you shouldn’t, but stuff happens.

You also run the risk of permanently damaging your iMac. Another disclaimer: if your iMac is still under warranty, this will void it.

Late 2013 imac 27 i7