- MAC MINI 2012 UPGRADE SSD CLONE FULL
- MAC MINI 2012 UPGRADE SSD CLONE WINDOWS 7
- MAC MINI 2012 UPGRADE SSD CLONE MAC
- MAC MINI 2012 UPGRADE SSD CLONE WINDOWS
On the upshot of this is that the PCIe SSD has a really high throughput that is not limited to the SATA throttle.
MAC MINI 2012 UPGRADE SSD CLONE MAC
The hard part comes when you want to add an SSD when you have only Specified the Hard drive only, yes you can add one but normally only the 2.5” SSD, but you wouldn’t normally be able to upgrade to the PCIe SSD and you would lose the second hard drive as well, Apple has been slightly sneaky in this respect, from experience the room inside the Mac Mini to have retained the Second Hard Disk as well as provided the slot for the PCIe SSD (for sure it would have been tighter but still enough room for good airflow for cooling purposes).
If you had the tools and knowhow, you could, in theory, open it up and if you had the pure SSD only version add in a second Hard Disk using the iFixit second drive kit from the 2012 Model. Add to this propriety screws to keep the hobbyist out, making it difficult to upgrade but not impossible.
MAC MINI 2012 UPGRADE SSD CLONE FULL
Unfortunately, the overhaul came with Apple’s insistence with proprietary screws, soldered on RAM (so what you specify is what you get for life) as well as the new PCIe SSD costing an arm and a leg for full SSD systems but a measly £80 for a fusion drive that they cut down as well. Ok so that’s the older models background, the new range from Late 2014, yep the 2014 Mac Mini didn’t get a full overhaul for over two years.
MAC MINI 2012 UPGRADE SSD CLONE WINDOWS
It was intended that you had your own windows keyboard and mouse as well as the screen (they even provided HDMI to DVI adapter) so that you could use what you already had and then in time buy the keyboard, Mouse and Monitor from Apple at a later stage.Īll well and good so far, it used laptop components and you could upgrade the RAM rather easily and the Hard Drive with some degree of complexity up until the late 2012 model, the iServer of mine is an i7 2.3Ghz Quad-Core, that was specced with 4Gb of RAM and a 1Tb drive, I ordered the iFixit kit for the second hard disk and 16Gb of RAM, then set about ordering the SSD’s 2x 1TB mSATA SSD’s for data and my virtual lab, I then also added a Crucial SSD 512 for the OS and applications to run from total cost of that upgrade was around £1000 but had over 2.5Tb’s of SSD’s and could have been 3Tb of SSD storage (still no one has ever created a 2Tb SSD) in comparison the 1.12Tb fusion drive would have cost me £700 and still used a 2.5” 128Gb SSD, whilst good its still using the 5200RPM drive that Apple seems to use in all the range. Ok we all know the Mac Mini, its been around since 2006, it started out as a cheap way to migrate over to the Mac system without the higher price tag of the higher-end models, it comes as a base unit only, with no screen or peripherals. I can’t actually sing the praises of them any higher and if you would like components for any Apple project then have a look on ITMad’s eBay Page. I must also give a shout out to ITMad who supplied me with the SSD, I got the first one wrong (my fault), but these guys were understanding and had very good communications and we got the right part in the end. After a short time, it was apparent that the spinner alone with El Capitan wasn’t going to cut it and so I set about looking at how we could upgrade the Mini to the SSD version but with the twist of using a higher capacity drive than the standard fusion drive. So I went ahead and specified the 8Gb of RAM and left the hard drive to be the 5200RPM spinner that is basically the bottom end of the scale.
MAC MINI 2012 UPGRADE SSD CLONE WINDOWS 7
To be honest I thought the same and wanted to save the additional £80 for the bottom of the range fusion drive, this was a mistake a big mistake that didn’t quite pass the GAT as it was bought to replace her ageing Windows-based computer, that was nagging to upgrade to Windows 10, when upgraded Sarah really didn’t like the interface it was slow and really not user friendly, and I reverted it back to windows 7 to get the cycle of wanting to be upgraded to windows 10.Īs she already had an iMac that I had bought her second hand earlier in the year I thought I would surprise her and get her a 2014 Mac Mini but I didn’t want to go to the expense of having it full SSD and didn’t like the fusion drive idea due to the SSD being only 32Gb in size unlike the older late 2012 model that was a 128Gb drive. Today I have a little treat for you and hopefully, it will save you a little money in the process, although to be honest if you bought the Hard Disk version of the Late 2014 Mac Mini, you will probably be thinking that the little powerhouse is not really that great.
Upgrading a Non-SSD Late 2014 Mac Mini to Fusion Drive.
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