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#Wd for mac cable update
I also wanted to mention an update about getting Apple to replace my 2nd faulty 1TB Seagate hard drive.
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Some local places aren't being nice about it, some I'm waiting to hear back from the service department. īecause of your comment, I'm shipping the defective 4TB WD HDD for exchange, and I am in discussions with Apple Authorized Dealers in the area that will hand over a replacement Seagate HDD, and save themselves the trouble of installing it. With all this new info, I was considering just buying a slower, cheaper 4TB 5900 RPM Seagate locally and putting that in so I wouldn't worry about the fan speeds and save my self about $110 overall ($80 cheaper HDD + $30 cable) and two more weeks without a HDD to make a nice Fusion drive with. The 4TB WD Black HDD that I installed appears to be defective anyway (since it can't format correctly, and I found a dent in the plastic corner near the SATA connector, but decided that it is probably fine, I guess I was wrong, perhaps G-shock damage).
#Wd for mac cable software
(If buying the correct cable won't work, then what is the best software fan control solution?) Simply replacing this cable seems like the perfect and simple solution because it has the correct connector to the hard drive. Is there any reason I can't simply replace the Seagate temperature cable with the Western Digital temperature cable? Are the internal sensors in the different brand HDDs actually different therefore the SMC won't recognize the signal and adjust the fan speed appropriately? (This would suggest that firmware or the logic boards are different for each brand of HDD, I find that doubtful.) I found this on eBay: Temp Sensor Hard Drive Cable 922-9225 But I couldn't find anyone that suggests or confirms that I can just buy the appropriate cable for the different brand HDD. I have read many discussions and possible solutions to switching brands because of the different connectors for the temperature connector. Instead I have already installed a Western Digital Black 4TB HDD. Of course I do not want another small 1 TB Seagate HDD (that may fail again) installed, and be without my iMac for a couple of days. This second Seagate drive has also failed, and surprisingly I'm eligible for another free HDD replacement (even almost 4 years later). All that works great, however I have had the Seagate 1 TB drive that came with the iMac replaced under Apple's extended replacement program. I have a 2009 iMac Core i7 2.8 GHz upgraded with an SSD in place of the optical drive and 32 GB of RAM.