I bought this particular SSD to use as an external boot drive for my 2017 iMac i5 5K 5K 27 inch. Software publisher Carbon Copy Cloner recommended it for cloning internal boot disk to this SSD. I first reformatted the SSD and then cloned my internal boot disk according to the instructions on it. I was very disappointed with the performance, mainly it was very slow. The next day I went through all the steps again and I can say that it works quite quickly when using the computer, it still seems that the computer takes a little longer to run Needs to boot than the internal drive but not too slow In the end I think for the price it's worth the money. Also the seller was very responsive.
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