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- MAC MINI LATE 2012 HARD DRIVE UPGRADE INSTALL
- MAC MINI LATE 2012 HARD DRIVE UPGRADE FULL
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Both of my Minis are Server models that came with two drives. I’ve been in and out of them so many times that now I can change a hard drive blindfolded in 5 minutes. In this case, after preparing the external SSD\SSHD, reformat the internal drive and use it for extra storage.Ĭlick to expand.I have a couple of 2012 Minis.
MAC MINI LATE 2012 HARD DRIVE UPGRADE INSTALL
Same for external drive, clone to the new drive, or install fresh and restore TM to the new drive. If you go the Fusion route, it will destroy all data on the existing disk, so make sure you have a good TM backup. If you go route 1 or 3, you can keep the 1TB drive in a USB adapter for additional external storage. In both cases, prepare the new drive while externally connected (USB adapter comes with many kits), then do the physical replacement.
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If replacing internal drive, choices are to clone the current drive to the new drive before replacing (use Carbon Copy Cloner or similar), or install fresh OS to the new drive(s) and restore from Time Machine (effective but slower). If RAID is desired, OWC has USB3 Drive Enclosures with slots for 2-4 HDD\SSD\SSHD drives that can mirror (RAID1), or RAID5 (3+ drives). Here too, SSD will be fastest, SSHD is also going to be better than current HDD. Seagate Firecuda for instance is a 2.5" 2TB hybrid drive, not as fast as SSD, but considerably faster than HDD.Ĥ. Same, but put a 128\256\512 GB SSD in and get a data doubler kit to keep your 1TB HDD and create a Fusion Drive of 1TB +128\256\512GB.ģ. Tear the Mini apart and replace the HDD with a 1 TB SSD (costly, doesn't solve the capacity issue you are nearing).Ģ. SSD is the key to improving your performance.ġ. If anyone can suggest anything I would be very appreciative.Good advice above. I took all static precautions, took my time replacing the drives and it went smoothly without any hitch. Should I reinstall and make a fusion drive (can't see this would make any difference) Not sure where I go with this, I could replace the original 'Apple drives' and see what occurs, at least I could forget about a possible gross over heat. The Evo 850 does not report a temperature through smart I don't see this would cause such issues though?
MAC MINI LATE 2012 HARD DRIVE UPGRADE MAC
I have searched about this problem, one person found that removing original drive on mac mini stopped fan altogether, replacing it with the original 'apple drive' and and the fan works fine! that does not make sense to me but the Samsung made drive that was the 128gb ssd part of my original fusion was firmware coded to say it was 'Apple' I have monitored with Imenus and more recently THPro, when the fan stalls it is reported to be running at 650rpm! Over last three days fan has stopped at boot several times, resetting SMC seems to resolve the issue. The exhaust fan has stopped when the mini has gone to sleep a couple of times, restarting has solved sometimes. Force shutdown, restart and all ok again. Over three weeks a couple of other weird events, two or three times at boot, progress bar would get to half way, display blank out and nothing more happen. Took off cover, checked connector, it was properly seated, spun fan and it continued running.Īll then seemed fine completed install and got replacement fan as precaution and fitted it. All good so far except noticed mini getting hot, exhaust fan not running ! (no fusion)ĭid clean install of El Capitan with bootable usb drive. Installed 500gb Samsung evo 850 ssd, wd 1tb for storage. I decided (possible foolishly) to do an upgrade.
MAC MINI LATE 2012 HARD DRIVE UPGRADE FULL
Had Fusion drive from new, found that once 128gb ssd was full there was no real benefit to fusion.