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Is there somone who can tell me if I can swich out the 2Tb fiusion drive in iMac 27" 2017, 3.8 GHz, i5 out, for 8Tb Samsung SSD and fitings/adapter from OWC? Does the the fuision form make any special problems? Can I transfer data from the fiusion disc to one SSD disc as it wold be any other one disc? — And/OR makes the large 8Tb SSD any spcial propblems for the hardware or the system in the iMac18,3, 27“ 2017, 3.8 GHz, i5?
This is a bit tricky! To start with replacing the SATA connected drive in its self is quite easy! iMac 27" 2017 Hard Drive Replacement but the remaining blade caching SSD used within a Fusion Drive setup will create problems! Best to take it out iMac 27" 2017 Blade SSD Replacement The next question is what is your goal here as the PCIe/NVMe interface is much faster than the SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) the SATA port offers. Maybe you might want to look at getting a blade SSD either a 480 GB or 1 TB for your boot drive and storage of your applications and leaving the rest for OS/App caching and depending on your apps using it for scratch space. I had often setup video and music pros and students with dual drive configs. Most go for a larger blade SSD and either go with a SATA HDD or SSD for hosting their work.
