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Imac Lagging, slow, freezes

I bought an Imac in 2015. It is very slow and lags and freezes. I posted to this forum and was responded to and told to use etracheck to run a diagnostic. I did.

The diagnostic said the main problem was the hard drive, which it said was vintage hardware.

My technical question is... What remedy do you suggest based on the diagnostic given?

Posted on Jul 18, 2022 11:17 AM

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Jul 18, 2022 12:18 PM in response to ZingJr

If the problem is the HD your options are to replace it or use the options below, personally I'd buy get the external SSD.

Buy an external SSD, connect to the iMac and then use either SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the internal HD to the new SSD. I and many others recommend either of the 2 solutions below:

Both solutions will work and will be a significant performance improvement over using a traditional hard disk.

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