I've had issues for ages with my iMac being slow always accompanied by excessive hard disk read/write noises. My local Apple dealer suggested installing more RAM (I have 8GB and I am by no means a 'power user') and installing an internal SSD or upgrading the computer. After hours and hours of searching the 'net for the best solution, I stumbled on a number of blogs & websites that wrote about their experience with using an external Thunderbolt drive on iMacs the same vintage as my own. I found that Lacie offers a 120GB SSD Thunderbolt drive for $199 CDN and thought I had nothing to lose since this alternative, if it worked, would be FAR cheaper than the alternatives offered to me by my local Apple dealer. It took a number of hours to set everything up. I began by backing up my internal 1TB hard disk, plugged in the external SSD, formatted it, installed OS X Mavericks on it and used Migration Assistant to transfer all of my software to it.
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