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Iain, the Mac is dead easy to take apart.
Lay on a blanket, face down, ( the iMac... silly!!!) undo two? screws at the bottom of the casing and lift the back off.
All the guts are laid out before you. I think, depending on model you have to remove some of the air ducting to get at the HD, the DVD is straightforward on the one I stripped (G5), although I have had the back off an intel one too, the previous one to the current model. Didn't seem much different under the hood.
I replaced the power supply and HD on mine.
The beauty of fitting SSD's is they will carry forward to another iMac if you decide to upgrade the machine to a newer/faster one eventually.
Check out the reputation of the drives you buy before parting with cash, there are issues with some makes/types (there are very few actual SSD makers but quite a variety of vendors who put their labels on).
There are issues with defragging some of the drives. Don't worry too much about dead sectors, they are mapped out on the fly and data is moved around to compensate. This is info I have seen on a very reliable forum.
Which iMac? For the last couple of years the rear is a continuous piece of aluminum. Entry is then done by removing the screen from the front - once inside you must be careful of static and various other fragile ribbons and other components
I recently did this in a MacBook with success, but nearly blew it due to a slightly different screw/ribbon placement compared to the online how-to videos
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