How do I fix frequent crashes on iMac?

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There is a world of difference between those two reports. In the first one in March, your hard drive is practically dead. The one from today is within expectations for that Fusion configuration. THe File System scores, an indicator of drive health, is horrible ("timed out"), but in today's showing excellent health.

What happened between the two tests?

Mar 26 drive scores:

Performance:

System Load: 2.73 (1 min ago) 2.37 (5 min ago) 1.16 (15 min ago)

Nominal I/O usage: 70.45 MB/s

File system: 122.02 seconds (timed out) 😱

Write speed: 34 MB/s 😱

Read speed: 82 MB/s 😱

April 15 drive scores:

Performance:

System Load: 2.39 (1 min ago) 2.58 (5 min ago) 1.43 (15 min ago)

Nominal I/O usage: 17.34 MB/s

File system: 24.25 seconds 👍🏻

Write speed: 609 MB/s 👍🏻

Read speed: 1361 MB/s 👍🏻

Predicated upon an earlier posting regarding 1 or both of the Internal Drives are the root cash of all the issues

Save yourself a trip to an Certificated Apple Service Center

Purchase an External Enclosure and a matching SSD Drive with at least 1 - 2 TB Capacity

Good place to start might be www.owc.com

Install the Operating System to start up the External Drive

Set the computer to run from the External Drive

All this may extend the life of the computer as well as doing all this yourself

Is the RAM installed original, or did you upgrade it at some point.

My first guess would be incompatible, marginal, or bad RAM.

I would still like to know if the RAM is original or aftermarket.

I've seen too many bizarre crashes with aftermarket RAM to dismiss that as a possibility.

Failing hard drive - This computer has a hard drive that appears to be failing.

The KP implicates that suspicion. It should not have been difficult for your Local Mac support to have reached that conclusion quickly.

That Mac's startup drive performance is still abysmal. It needs to be replaced.

Memory failures do not manifest in poor performance. The Mac will either fail to start, or it will crash to a black screen.

The iMac appears to be OK...

The problem is MS software overload.

Good eye Allan.

I think that John was looking at the OP's first report and I was looking at the OP's second report.

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