You can house your factory Apple blade SSD in the Envoy Pro enclosure. There is no housing available for the OWC Aura blade SSD, so you’ll need to use Time Machine to backup your drive first if you want to restore later.To add in a ‘blade’ SSD or upgrade the existing factory SSD, you’ll need the servicing kit to open up the Mac, plus one of the OWC Aura SSD’s on the left.The 27-Inch "Late 2012" and "Late 2013" as well as the "Late 2014" and "Mid-2015" Retina/5K iMac models all have the necessary connector on the motherboard to add in an additional ‘blade’ SSD, even if the system only is configured with a hard drive at the time of purchase.If you have a ‘Fusion drive’ setup, then you’ll need to split the fusion drive first and then perform the clone operation.Your old 3.5-inch HDD can be housed in this 3.5-inch HDD enclosure. To clone your existing OS/app setup first, purchase a cloning cable or 2.5-inch HDD/SDD enclosure to connect your new SSD to your mac, then use the Super Duper app to perform the clone, then switch the drives.Plus, you’ll need to add in the OWC Adaptadrive 3.5-inch to 2.5-inch drive converter To upgrade the factory 3.5-inch HDD to an SSD, purchase any 2.5-inch SSD along with the same Hard Drive Upgrade kit.If you have a ‘Fusion drive’ setup, then you’ll need to split the fusion drive first and then perform the clone operation before upgrading the HDD.The enclosure can also house your old HDD. To clone your existing OS/app setup first, purchase an external 3.5-inch HDD enclosure or dock and put your new HDD in it, then use the Super Duper app to perform the clone, then switch the drives.To upgrade the existing HDD, purchase a larger 3.5-inch HDD along with the Hard Drive Upgrade kit. At the time of purchase, Apple offered a 1 TB or 3TB "Fusion Drive" (which combines a 128GB ‘blade’ SSD and a 1TB/3TB hard drive), or a stand-alone 768GB blade SSD. The iMac13,2 has a 1TB 3.5-inch factory HDD with a 6 Gb/s SATA port.Follow this guide to install the RAM modules. To install the RAM, you'll need a Spudger.
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