Unfortunately, Apple has left no room for a second 2.5-inch drive in Mac mini (built in ) and protects the contents with TR security 

I bought a second hand mac mini that only had the pcie ssd but wanted to add a sata drive to store my data. On a bit of reading I suspected that this connector 

You cannot add any disk into your Mini since you have both the Apple SSD and the Apple HDD in it. You can add either an external USB or 

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20/03/  · To do this, open Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app and click on the grey drive icon at the left-edge of the window. If you see "Lower" after the "Connection ID" at the bottom-left corner of the window, you may proceed using the standard installation instructions.

Ssd adapter is an easy way to add a second ssd that will not change the interface of ssd's brand ssd's hard disk. In , you can also find other good 

13/12/  · The people posting their results of the Blackmagic benchmark in this forum get may somewhere in the 600's-700's MB/sec. (if anybody gets more, say in the 800+ range, it would nice if you posted). My Crucial M500 gets in the mid-high 400 MB/sec in my Mini. A big reason for this is that the Mini has a PCIe 2-lane vs. 4-lane. If you have

All you need to do is open Disk Utility, right-click on the new hard drive (it should be a long string of numbers and letters, anything but 'APPLE HDD'), and 

Update: I double-checked and found that the iMac also has an NVMe slot. If you're going to open the case to access/remove the hard drive, 

20/03/  · To do this, open Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app and click on the grey drive icon at the left-edge of the window. If you see "Lower" after the "Connection ID" at the bottom

M.2 PCIe SSD Mac Mini. You can replace your SSD with a larger faster Aura X2. You can not add two PCIe SSD blades. If you want a second drive, there is 

The process for replacing or upgrading your Mac mini hard drive might be doable by yourself if you've got the tools. But Mac mini models from 

27/01/  · To upgrade the memory in the Aluminum "Unibody" Mac mini models released before and after the Late models, Apple has made it straightforward. Replacing the hard drive or hard drives is a more complicated procedure and Apple does not support users performing this upgrade themselves. In the User Guide, Apple formally states the following:

25/03/  · A: For the Mac mini the memory is as you state soldered to the logic board, as such it is generally regarded as impossible to upgrade the memory. This leaves the only option as being to sell it and buy a better model. In theory one could unsolder the existing chips and solder new bigger capacity ones, this indeed did use to be commonly

There is no room in the model for two SATA drives as in previous models. To add a second drive you must add a PCIe cable. There is a free PCIe 

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Mac Mini Dual Hard Drive Kit, Crucial MX500 250 GB SSD, Crucial MX500 500 GB SSD, Crucial MX500 1 TB SSD, Step 1 Bottom Cover, Place your thumbs in the depressions cut into the

21/08/  · There is a second drive that is undetectable because faulty or badly connected, You can find out which it is by simply opening the black plastic bottom and looking, no "process" required. In the picture of what you will see when opening the back, I have indicated the two connectors for the two possible disks with red arrows.

17/04/  · All you need to do is open Disk Utility, right-click on the new hard drive (it should be a long string of numbers and letters, anything but ‘APPLE HDD’), and select Erase. Give the volume a new name and click Erase. After that finishes, you can right-click on the new volume and select Covert to APFS.

To go this route, you will need an adapter to make a 2.5″ harddisk fit the optical driv , I did find one on Amazon . 2nd SATA HDD drive adapter. You will 

I know that if the Mac mini didn't come with a PCIe SSD you'll need to get an attachment for the motherboard to connect the drive. Assuming you