NVMe in iMac Mid-2015 Ret 5k

[knightslugger]

I've got a 27" Ret 5k iMac from the Haswell days (Mid-2015) and want to up the power of my storage. I REALLY like using iMovie for simple video compilations and having a faster disk in there would be most beneficial.

 

There is a M.2 slot on the motherboard (pain to get at, so one and done would be nice) and Apple does sell it with straight SSD storage (linus made a video about tearing it down and the one he bought had no HDD). So it got me thinking. instead of a SATAIII SSD (which is what i have in my 2008 iMac), why not capitalize on that M.2 NVMe storage Apple provides? It would be HELLA faster than a SATAIII SSD, MUCH cleaner, AND i could keep that 1TB Seagate HDD in there for dump storage when i'm done with my project (or just take it out and use it as a spare in the NAS)

 

TL:DR Can i use that M.2 slot with an NVMe SSD as a bootable drive?

 

Samsung 950 Pro

Samsung SM951

Samsung XP941

Plextor M8Peg

Toshiba RD400

[Electronics Wizardy]

Its not a m.2 slot, its a propertiey pcie ssd. You can buy these ssds at owc.

 

If you don't have a imac with a ssd already, it doesn't have the slot solerded on, so you can't just add a ssd.

[knightslugger]

how certain are you of that?

[Hackentosher]

32 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Its not a m.2 slot, its a propertiey pcie ssd. You can buy these ssds at owc.

 

If you don't have a imac with a ssd already, it doesn't have the slot solerded on, so you can't just add a ssd.

Don't you have to take the screen off the iMac to access anything but the memory slots?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Hackentosher said:

Don't you have to take the screen off the iMac to access anything but the memory slots?

Yep