Otherwise, I'm not sure if they're the sort of people that would want to use a drive externally and have to hold a key each time to boot from it. If his SSD was already used in a 2011 Macbook Pro, do you think it would be able to boot from that just fine? Because that would be very useful in case of operating system failure or something. I just hope the end user can navigate his Mac and find his way there, and then has a steady hand with his potato's Sam - That's certainly an idea for something more semi-permanent. I feel silly for having forgotten about it. I've been on that panel many a time, doing an assortment of file system tomfoolery and such. I appreciate the information, rm5 and rm5 - That's a great idea. I'd ask him to check in the disk Utility area to see what kind of drive it is, but it doesn't look like it'd be much help either. I definitely don't want to ask him to bring it in so I can open it up, as that's a ton of work in and of itself. Thing is, whenever I look up this particular model, I'm getting an equal number of hits regarding it having a standard mechanical 3.5' Hard Drive or a Fusion Chip that is very much not in the shape of a SATA 2.5' SSD. They told me they have a 27' Late 2013 iMac.

We want to see if there's a way to have them not have wasted their money on the SSD. They just got a new 1 TB 2.5' SATA SSD for their old 2011 Macbook, but the Macbook's logic board died shortly afterward and they feel like their investment has gone to waste. I've got a buddy of mine that's only slightly computer literate. But I don't want to open it up and the guy's nowhere near me. Early tl dr - I need to find out if a guy's Late 2013 27' iMac A1419 has a SATA HDD in it or something more chip-like instead so I can use a spare 1TB 2.5' SSD in it instead, if it would fit.

Late 2013 imac review