Great little kit for adding a second hard drive to a mac mini late 2012. Get 3% daily cash with apple card, or get special financing. The boot drive selection screen of the mac mini, showing the original drive, a time machine drive, and the replacement ssd select the external ssd to continue the booting process from the new drive. We buy and sell used macs, apple computers and refurbished macs.
How to give your 2012 or 2014 mac mini a performance boost. Mac mini late 2012 hard drivessd installation video youtube. Apple a grade desktop computer mac mini server aluminum unibody 2. Apple mac mini desktop intel core i7 64gb memory 1tb solid state drive. Dismantling the mini was simple, but the two hardest steps when installing a new hard drive were sliding the drive back in aligned correctly, and replacing the antenna grill. A server edition of the mac mini was introduced in october 2009, which omits the optical drive in favor of a second hard drive for a total of 1 tb of storage. It is one of four desktop computers in the current macintosh lineup, serving as an alternative to the allinone imac, and.
Rotate the bottom cover counterclockwise until the white dot painted on the bottom cover is aligned with the ring inscribed on the outer case. You can get 16gb ddr4 sticks for like 80 bucks nowadays its insane. Oem replacement sata ii hard drive hdd for the apple imac 21. At a glance, you wouldnt think that this version is any different from its identical models from the previous year. Apple mac mini 512 gb hard drive capacity apple desktops. Even with the logic board pushed out, i found it difficult to line up the screws on the hard drive and get it seated properly.
The 2012 mac mini uses intel hd graphics 4000, which is a step up from the intel 3000 in last years entrylevel mini but a step down from the amd radeon hd 6630m gpu with 256 mb of dedicated. Its not nearly the gaming machine the imac is, or even as good as the. Extended warranty and insurance must be added at time of purchase. Its very cool that there is no particular hardware order. Mac mini installing second hard drive ssd apple community.
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Mac mini late 2012 hard drive replacement ifixit repair guide. I want to keep my original hard drive in the mac mini plus have the ssd for my main drive. Its easy to do if you follow proper directions that you can find if you search for it amazon wouldnt let me post a link to a video. The 2012 model year has two sata drive bays that support spinning hard drive and ssd options. Place your thumbs in the depressions cut into the bottom cover. To do so, select apple menu about this mac more info system report serialata and copypaste the contents. Mac mini late 2012 hard drive replacement ifixit repair. Its not nearly the gaming machine the imac is, or even as.
I am considering picking up one of these minis and drive brand is extremely important to me. To do so, select apple menu about this mac more info. Apple md388lla mac mini late 2012 desktop, intel core i7 2. Installing mac mini late 2012 dual hard drive kit ifixit.