- #Mac mini 2014 upgrade hdd for mac#
- #Mac mini 2014 upgrade hdd install#
- #Mac mini 2014 upgrade hdd upgrade#
The warranty of SSD is important (3 year vs 5 year) if anything happened to the SSD. See if any of the following article can help: More Less. 2014 Mac minis, that came with Fusion drives, consist of a 2.5' SATA III hard drive plus a 128GB PCIe SSD drive and therefore includes all the cables, screws and brackets needed for both. In most cases, all these demands can be achieved with the help of cloning.
#Mac mini 2014 upgrade hdd upgrade#
Even Apple's SSD (usually made by Samsung) can have some lemons from time to time. It may come down to having the correct connectors. Generally, it is recommended to clone the hard drive of your Mac in case you decide to upgrade the hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD), replace an old or corrupted drive with a new one or if you are going to create a bootable hard drive. Although there might be some different experience according different users regarding to their SSD (third party) experience. My suggestion will be choosing "vendors have updated the firmware" such as Crucial, Samsung or Intel etc. The quality of SSD - feedback from the users would tell some stories about third party SSDs - do some research and you will find a few users' experience. I am perfectly happy with my DIY SATA-3 SSD on my 2015 5K, two 2013 (27") and even SATA-2 on my 2009 Mac Mini Server (yes, I have Fusion drive with two identical Apple 256GB SSD - made by Toshiba). The speed you might gain with PCI-e + SATA SSD Fusion drive might not be that significant (given CPU and 4GB memory). Your Mac Mini is the 1.4 GHz entry level - personally, I would invest all the money to get a Bigger SATA-3 SSD alone for this Mac Mini. I can see you have spent some energy and money to get the hardwares for this task, however: I know some people would want the newest PCI-e SSD with modification of second SSD by replacing the HDD (2014 Mac Mini Fusion version).
The fusion drive is combining the "speed" of SSD with "capacity" of HDD.
Hope you can help, in any case thanks in advance for your attention. Repeat Step 2 and 1 in reverse by returning the cover to the Mini, then screwing it back in with your two thumbs.
#Mac mini 2014 upgrade hdd install#
Is there anything I am doing wrong? Is there anything I can do to check if the problem is the connector on motherboard? Should the PCIe port need to somewhat activated? Install the new RAM by reversing the process done in Step 3 & 4 and sliding in the new RAM in the same position that the previous RAM was. In sum, I tried two different drives with two different connectors but in all cases once I power on my Mac the additional PCIe blade drive isn’t recognised at all as it neither was present nor connected.
#Mac mini 2014 upgrade hdd for mac#
I bought on eBay a connector 821-00010-A and an original Apple/Samsung MZ-JPV1280/0A3 PCIe blade drive coming from a Macbook Pro then a bought a brand new Transcend Jetdrive 820 especially designed for Mac mini 2014 and finally I bought another 821-00010-A connector from a different seller. I tried to upgrade my Mac mini late 2014 (MGEM2, i5 1.4 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB HD) to Fusion drive following the procedure posted here and since I cannot succeeded, I am really getting crazy!
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