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Mailos Author

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Hi all - late 2013 iMac 21.5 running really slowly.

Have run a Etrecheck and report below. Look bad I think... am I right in thinking the only way forward is replacing the hard drive?

Etrecheck Report

iMac 21.5", macOS 10.14

Posted on Jan 24, 2020 10:18 PM

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den.thed

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Posted on Jan 24, 2020 10:48 PM

There are DIY videos at OWC macsales.com and DIY Guides at iFixit for replacing the HDD with an SSD.

However is much easier to just buy or BYO external USB 3.0 SSD, plug it into your iMac, format it, install macOS, migrate from your internal drive or Time Machine and run from it.

see > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdzK5lgqLjM

and/or > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyGAJ9gAQVo

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den.thed

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Jan 24, 2020 10:48 PM in response to Mailos

There are DIY videos at OWC macsales.com and DIY Guides at iFixit for replacing the HDD with an SSD.

However is much easier to just buy or BYO external USB 3.0 SSD, plug it into your iMac, format it, install macOS, migrate from your internal drive or Time Machine and run from it.

see > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdzK5lgqLjM

and/or > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyGAJ9gAQVo

BDAqua

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Jan 25, 2020 1:25 PM in response to Mailos

den.thed has the biggest most urgent covered quite nicely.

Smaller problems... delete all the .plists in the Clean up: section.

Hi all - late 2013 iMac 21.5 running really slowly.