Take your time this process takes 30 to 45 minutes.Stack as you go and the computer goes back together in reverse order. Small food containers are excellent for holding the screws and parts you will remove and replace.I had some soft microfiber cloths to work on. I ran a Time Machine backup right before I started this project. Uninstall programs you never use from your computer.Find your model by clicking the Apple / About this Mac / System Report / Hardware Overview. Ensure you’re shopping for the right computer model.OWC recommends you use a business card to guide it into place and that did help.Ī couple things to keep in mind that I will call best practices: The most challenging part of the whole process is aligning the new drive into the right position. The included toolkit and spudger made it so easy. I set up my MacBook Air so I could follow along with OWC’s step-by-step video and I had no trouble taking the Mini apart and removing the existing drive. OWC had the kit at my doorstep a few days later. Spoiler Alert: I just want to say right now that was the best purchase I’ve made in a long time. This led me to pop over to and moments later I had ordered a 1 TB OWC Solid State Drive with a toolkit and an enclosure to turn my old drive into an external. Lately the spindle drive is showing signs of potential failure so I thought about buying a new computer, but Apple is due to refresh hardware and I really didn’t want to spend thousands right now. It’s a late 2012 with the i7 chip, a terabyte drive and 16 GB of RAM. Hello Fellow NosillaCastaways, this is Denise Crown with a review of Other World Computing’s SSD upgrade kit for the Mac mini.
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