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Mac mini hard drive replacement ifixit series#

Sticking with Samsung, I believe youвЂ™d need their X series to do that. Your TB port would indeed offer bandwidth to match that, but since the disk does not support TB youвЂ™re stuck with what you have. In your case that is a bit of a bummer because your built in USB ports are only 3.0 ports with 5 Gbps whereas the T7 sports a 3.2 Gen 2 interface for up to 10 Gbps. It does not speak TB, only USB so that is what it needs to see. Let me just note that your T7 is a USB device, so you cannot hook it up to your TB2 even with a TB2-TB3 adapter. IвЂ™ll have to think about it some more to see if I could come up with anything else that could be amiss on that mini. Does sound like you have all your base covered. Yeah, that is odd indeed if the disk can boot another Mac. Did not see anything on that page that I had missedвЂ¦

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IвЂ™ve also pulled the SSD of of the mini and verified that it does boot my M1 Pro MBP 14 correctlyвЂ¦so that isnвЂ™t it either.Д®ditвЂ¦checked HowardвЂ™s page and verified that there is no firmware password set so with no T2 booting from external should work. I even checked with LockRattler and SilentKnight to make sure everything else is up to date. IвЂ™ll go take a look at HowardвЂ™s page you referenced againвЂ¦just in case I missed somethingвЂ¦but I been doing Macs a long time and was a sysadmin in my working life so while itвЂ™s possible, even likely that I missed somethingвЂ¦if I did it hasnвЂ™t occurred to me yet. Command R again and installed to the SSD but did not reformat it again before installing. Figured it might be some sort of EFI or whatever issue so did a command R start and installed later Monterey on internal, then selected SSD again as startup and it failed. Sys Prefs allows selection of the SSD as the boot device but it doesnвЂ™t boot and instead boots internal.

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Downloaded the full Monterey installer (internal spinning drive is up to date Monterey on late 2014 mini) and installed Monterey to the SSD which is connected to the USB port since I donвЂ™t have a TB2 to USBC/TB3 adapter. YepвЂ¦formatted the disk new as GUID and then a single APFS volume.

It doesnвЂ™t really seem worth it to buy a new mini for 5is purpose, but I would like better performance when booting it and for the occasional login via Screens 4. Is there a trick here to make it work that I missed? The only thing I havenвЂ™t tried is a recovery boot and reinstall on the SSDвЂ¦but I figure if the full installer doesnвЂ™t work tht wonвЂ™t either. It should boot from external USB according to google search but it isnвЂ™t working. System Prefs sees it and lets it be selected as startup diskвЂ¦it just doesnвЂ™t actually boot from it. Downloaded the Monterey installer, nuked the SSD completely, formatted as APFS, and installed Monterey on the SSDвЂ¦still doesnвЂ™t boot from it, looks like the mini thinks awhile and then gives up and boots from the internal spinner. Tried a full CCC clone including macOS to the SSD, selected as boot drive, doesnвЂ™t work. Backup performance is a lot better so I figured I would boot from the SSD as wellвЂ¦but thatвЂ™s been problematic. SoвЂ¦bought another Samsung T7 for my 2014 mini since while it is slow on the spinning drive itвЂ™s only a server but the throughput to the external spinning drive is really slowвЂ¦this server is essentially a destination for my roll your own TM replacement with CCC for laptops.

(TB3 drives can be used with an adapter, but the adapter wonвЂ™t pass power, so any drive connected that way must have its own power brick.) A Thunderbolt drive will perform very well, but you may have problems finding a TB2 drive these days. A USB drive will perform a little slower than an internal SATA SSD, but will be far far easier to install. Not too hard to do as long as youвЂ™re careful: Mac mini Late 2014 Repair - iFixitДЄnd, as wrote, you could just get an external SSD. If you want to install/repalce the internal drive yourself, iFixit has a good set of repair guides. It wonвЂ™t perform as fast as the Apple SSD, but maybe it will be good enough.

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If your Mac doesnвЂ™t have a hard drive in it, you could install a 2.5' SATA SSD. I would love to know what the technical reason is for this stated requirement, because it doesnвЂ™t make sense to me. They say it in the context of вЂњdesigned for APFSвЂќ.

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The only drives OWC have require an upgrade to at least High Sierra (which will render Server app useless).