--- product_id: 223452187 title: "SSD Upgrade Bundle For 2011 iMacs, Mercury Electra 1.0TB 6G SSD, AdaptaDrive 2.5\" to 3.5\" Drive Converter Bracket, In-line Digital Thermal Sensor Cable, Installation tools" brand: "owc" price: "€ 752.61" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 11 category: "Owc" url: https://www.desertcart.fr/products/223452187-ssd-upgrade-bundle-for-2011-imacs-mercury-electra-1-0tb store_origin: FR region: France --- # 532MB/s read speed 1TB SSD capacity Complete DIY install kit SSD Upgrade Bundle For 2011 iMacs, Mercury Electra 1.0TB 6G SSD, AdaptaDrive 2.5" to 3.5" Drive Converter Bracket, In-line Digital Thermal Sensor Cable, Installation tools **Brand:** owc **Price:** € 752.61 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🚀 Revive your 2011 iMac with speed and style — don’t let legacy tech hold you back! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** SSD Upgrade Bundle For 2011 iMacs, Mercury Electra 1.0TB 6G SSD, AdaptaDrive 2.5" to 3.5" Drive Converter Bracket, In-line Digital Thermal Sensor Cable, Installation tools by owc - **How much does it cost?** € 752.61 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.fr](https://www.desertcart.fr/products/223452187-ssd-upgrade-bundle-for-2011-imacs-mercury-electra-1-0tb) ## Best For - owc enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted owc brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **All-in-One DIY Bundle:** Everything you need—tools, suction cups, and expert video support—for a smooth, confident upgrade. - • **Rock-Solid Reliability:** Backed by a 3-year limited warranty and OWC’s trusted performance legacy. - • **Seamless Compatibility:** Tailored for 21.5” & 27” iMac 2011 models with included AdaptaDrive bracket and thermal sensor cable. - • **Blazing Fast Boot Times:** Experience up to 532MB/s sequential reads for lightning-quick startups and app launches. - • **Massive 1TB Storage Upgrade:** Double your iMac’s storage with a reliable, high-capacity SSD designed for 2011 models. ## Overview The OWC SSD Upgrade Bundle is a comprehensive DIY kit designed to supercharge your 2011 iMac by replacing its aging hard drive with a 1TB Mercury Electra 6G SSD. Delivering up to 532MB/s read and 467MB/s write speeds, this kit includes all necessary hardware—AdaptaDrive bracket, thermal sensor cable, installation tools—and expert support, ensuring a seamless upgrade that breathes new life into your classic iMac with faster boot times, enhanced reliability, and expanded storage capacity. ## Description Buy Review: Super fast, double the storage - relatively easy to swap. - My 2011 iMac was grinding to a halt. Booting up and logging in took 5 minutes each time. I looked at the price of a new iMac and decided for what I use it for, mainly emails and browsing the web, it just wasn't worth spending the best part of £2k plus I like the fact I still have a CDRom drive. After a bit of research I stumbled on this upgrade and thought I'd give it a go. Plenty of videos online to show you how to do it. From my experience, I would recommend you get a head torch just to make is easy to see inside when you are disconnecting the cables. I would also get a can of compress air to clean up 10 years worth of dust which had built up. The replacement of the drive was fairly straight forward, took about 25 minutes (1st time). Having booted the new disk and saved the boot image from a USB, the initial problems arose when I attempted to restore from the TimeMachine backup. I have been running the TimeMachine on an external WDMyCloud NAS drive. No mater what I tried, I was getting all types of permision issues. I ended up putting the old drive back in and making another backup to the WDMyCloud, checking all permissions were correct. Put the new disk back in, still unable to restore. After several more frustrating hours and much research, I discovered that you will never be able to restore the TimeMachine backup from a NAS system, despite what WD may tell you. Its fine for individual files, not for complete restores. Put the old disk back in and backed up to a standard external drive. Put the new disk back in again (its now only taking me 10 minutes to do a complete disk swap) and this time I could see and restore the entire system form the TimeMachine backup. The only other issue I have, is I lost the license key for my Microsoft Office 2016 package and have been unable to retrieve it (I think I had bought the copy from ebay years ago so not really a surprise it no longer works). A check on the speed of the new disk shows 6.5 times increase in performance. Boot up / login takes 30 seconds, amazing really. If I get another few years out of this system, I will be very happy. In a nutshell, advice to others looking to do this upgrade, as long as you can hold a screwdriver, don't be afraid. Make sure you have a full backup using timemachine before you start, and make sure its not on a NAS drive. Make sure you create a bootable image, probably best onto a USB. Make a note of any licence keys. If you use Apple Numbers, make sure you have a copy as you can no longer get a copy from the app store if you are running OS High Sierra, which I assume you will be. Hope this helps. Review: Great upgrade to ailing 2011 iMac 27” - Great upgrade to my ‘obsolete’ 2011 iMac 27” with 1TB HDD. Now boots up much faster, no longer randomly crashes and has given old machine new lease of life! Just take care when refitting delicate cables (especially LCD display) as I mangled mine and had to replace. Also, had some difficulty cloning old drive which was made more difficult as I had a Bootcamp partition (no fault of the product, but useful to know). Well worth the effort though, if you are considering doing it. I also ended up buying an external USB HDD drive adaptor to help cloning process. The bonus is I can now use any old internal HDD drive plugged into a USB socket. ## Features - Complete DIY kit for upgrading your 2011 iMac's hard drive with a high-performance OWC 6G Solid State Drive; No software hacks required - Sequential Reads(Compressible Data): up to 532MB/s; Sequential Writes(Compressible Data): up to 467MB/s - Compatible with 27-inch and 21.5-inch iMac 2011: 27" Model ID: iMac12,2 21.5" Model ID: iMac12,1 - Includes: OWC Mercury 6G SSD, AdaptaDrive 2.5" to 3.5" Drive Converter Bracket, OWC In-line Digital Thermal Sensor Cable, (2) OWC 2-1/4" Suction Cups, (4) Installation tools, Microfiber Screen Cleaning Cloth - Backed by free DIY install videos and expert support; 3 Year OWC Limited Warranty ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B075QRL43P | | Best Sellers Rank | 192,131 in Computers & Accessories ( See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories ) 1,072 in Internal Solid State Drives | | Box Contents | Mercury Electra 1. | | Brand Name | OWC | | Cache Memory Installed Size | 1 | | Color | Blue | | Compatible Devices | Desktop | | Country of Origin | Mexico | | Customer Package Type | Kit | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (289) | | Data Transfer Rate | 6000 Megabytes Per Second | | Digital Storage Capacity | 1024 GB | | Enclosure Material | NAND flash | | Form Factor | 2.5-inch, 3.5-inch | | Hard Disk Description | Solid State Drive | | Hard Disk Form Factor | 3.5 Inches | | Hard Disk Interface | Serial ATA-600 | | Hard-Drive Size | 1 TB | | Hardware Connectivity | Lightning, Solid State Drive | | Installation Type | Internal Hard Drive | | Item Dimensions L x W x Thickness | 14.7L x 10.2W x 1Th centimetres | | Manufacturer | OWC | | Media Speed | 6000 MB/s | | Model Name | Mercury Electra | | Model Number | OWCKITIM11HE1TB | | Network Connectivity Technology | SATA | | Number of Items | 1 | | Product Features | Kit to swap main HDD for SSD | | Product Warranty | 5 years | | Read Speed | 532 Megabytes Per Second | | Specific Uses For Product | Personal | | UPC | 812437026009 | | Unit Count | 1.0 Count | ## Product Details - **Brand:** OWC - **Colour:** Blue - **Compatible devices:** Desktop - **Connectivity technology:** SATA - **Digital storage capacity:** 1024 GB - **Hard disk description:** Solid State Drive - **Hard disk form factor:** 3.5 Inches - **Hard disk interface:** Serial ATA-600 - **Installation type:** Internal Hard Drive - **Special feature:** Kit to swap main HDD for SSD ## Images ![SSD Upgrade Bundle For 2011 iMacs, Mercury Electra 1.0TB 6G SSD, AdaptaDrive 2.5" to 3.5" Drive Converter Bracket, In-line Digital Thermal Sensor Cable, Installation tools - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81qpwgdMKML.jpg) ## Questions & Answers **Q: Does it come with the adhesive to put the screen back?** A: Hello. The 2011 iMac does not require adhesive for the screen. The screen is held on by magnets in those models. **Q: Would this work for a 2010 iMac as well?** A: Hello! The 2010 iMac does need a different Thermal Sensor cable than what comes with this kit. We do have a kit for the 2010 iMac here: https://goo.gl/duRkcu **Q: Do you have the upgrade kit for the late 2013 27" iMac?** A: Hello! It does not look like the upgrade kit for the Late 2013" 27" iMac would be available on Amazon at this time. You can contact us at https://www.owcdigital.com/support or 800-275-4576 and we would be happy to help you find what you are looking for though! **Q: Where’s the product upgrade video link?** A: owcdigital ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Super fast, double the storage - relatively easy to swap. *by L***N on 28 February 2021* My 2011 iMac was grinding to a halt. Booting up and logging in took 5 minutes each time. I looked at the price of a new iMac and decided for what I use it for, mainly emails and browsing the web, it just wasn't worth spending the best part of £2k plus I like the fact I still have a CDRom drive. After a bit of research I stumbled on this upgrade and thought I'd give it a go. Plenty of videos online to show you how to do it. From my experience, I would recommend you get a head torch just to make is easy to see inside when you are disconnecting the cables. I would also get a can of compress air to clean up 10 years worth of dust which had built up. The replacement of the drive was fairly straight forward, took about 25 minutes (1st time). Having booted the new disk and saved the boot image from a USB, the initial problems arose when I attempted to restore from the TimeMachine backup. I have been running the TimeMachine on an external WDMyCloud NAS drive. No mater what I tried, I was getting all types of permision issues. I ended up putting the old drive back in and making another backup to the WDMyCloud, checking all permissions were correct. Put the new disk back in, still unable to restore. After several more frustrating hours and much research, I discovered that you will never be able to restore the TimeMachine backup from a NAS system, despite what WD may tell you. Its fine for individual files, not for complete restores. Put the old disk back in and backed up to a standard external drive. Put the new disk back in again (its now only taking me 10 minutes to do a complete disk swap) and this time I could see and restore the entire system form the TimeMachine backup. The only other issue I have, is I lost the license key for my Microsoft Office 2016 package and have been unable to retrieve it (I think I had bought the copy from ebay years ago so not really a surprise it no longer works). A check on the speed of the new disk shows 6.5 times increase in performance. Boot up / login takes 30 seconds, amazing really. If I get another few years out of this system, I will be very happy. In a nutshell, advice to others looking to do this upgrade, as long as you can hold a screwdriver, don't be afraid. Make sure you have a full backup using timemachine before you start, and make sure its not on a NAS drive. Make sure you create a bootable image, probably best onto a USB. Make a note of any licence keys. If you use Apple Numbers, make sure you have a copy as you can no longer get a copy from the app store if you are running OS High Sierra, which I assume you will be. Hope this helps. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great upgrade to ailing 2011 iMac 27” *by M***V on 31 March 2022* Great upgrade to my ‘obsolete’ 2011 iMac 27” with 1TB HDD. Now boots up much faster, no longer randomly crashes and has given old machine new lease of life! Just take care when refitting delicate cables (especially LCD display) as I mangled mine and had to replace. Also, had some difficulty cloning old drive which was made more difficult as I had a Bootcamp partition (no fault of the product, but useful to know). Well worth the effort though, if you are considering doing it. I also ended up buying an external USB HDD drive adaptor to help cloning process. The bonus is I can now use any old internal HDD drive plugged into a USB socket. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Relatively straightforward to Install *by A***T on 1 February 2021* I found the video instructions really useful to follow for removing the screen which was easy with the supplied kit. Make sure to have a small screwdriver on hand though for removing the old HDD and installing the new SSD in its place. The trickiest part was giving the machine a good dust inside and reattaching the monitor cables. Otherwise I was able to reformat the drive in disk utility on start up and boot the OS from USB. Paired with 16gb of new RAM I hope to get a few more years out my mid 2011 iMac which is running very quickly now. ## Frequently Bought Together - OWC 1TB SSD Upgrade Bundle for 2011 iMacs, Mercury Electra 1.0TB 6G SSD, AdaptaDrive 2.5" to 3.5" Drive Converter Bracket, in-line Digital Thermal Sensor Cable, Installation Tools, OWCKITIM11HE1TB - Timetec 16GB KIT(2x8GB) Compatible for Apple DDR3 1333MHz PC3-10600 CL9 for Mac Book Pro (Early/Late 2011 13/15/17 inch), iMac(Mid 2010, Mid/Late 2011 21.5/27 inch), Mac Mini(Mid 2011) MAC RAM Upgrade - StarTech.com SATA to USB Cable - USB 3.0 to 2.5” SATA III Hard Drive Adapter - External Converter for SSD/HDD Data Transfer (USB3S2SAT3CB) --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.fr/products/223452187-ssd-upgrade-bundle-for-2011-imacs-mercury-electra-1-0tb](https://www.desertcart.fr/products/223452187-ssd-upgrade-bundle-for-2011-imacs-mercury-electra-1-0tb) --- *Product available on Desertcart France* *Store origin: FR* *Last updated: 2026-04-23*