Ok all this talk got me off my keister and down to Fry's. My 5.2 mac mini main drive was down to 160gb so I picked up a Seagate 1tb sshd drive. The swap has been done and my old drive is now being restored to the new one. Only 4 more hours of waiting. Hopefully the extra room and faster drive will give it a bump in responsiveness. Thanks for posting.
-- Bruce Sent from my iPad > On Jun 16, 2014, at 7:00 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Good looking set of tools, Cotty. I probably would have been successful doing > the swap myself if I had decent tools. I used the ones that came with the > two-drive adaptation kit, and that just didn't work. I've already sent it > back for a refund. > >> On Jun 16, 2014, at 9:46 AM, Charles Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> As for drive installation in a Mini - I just swapped a 1TB drive into my >> mid-2011 Mini (replacing the original 500GB) and I didn't have to move the >> logic board at all. The instructions SAY you should use the logic-board >> removal tool to shift it out of the way a bit, but my experience was that >> that particular step of the process wasn't necessary at all - the drive slid >> into place just fine with the logic board fully installed. >> >> However, if I ever want to stack up a second drive in the mini, then the >> board would have to move. That will be a while yet. > > I'm glad you got it done without issue. For me, I didn't get past step three. > Removing the fan connector … gently as I could imagine … ripped the connector > socket block right off the motherboard. From how the folks at the store > reacted, I think this is not uncommon. It's a very delicate little component. > > Originally I was going to do the two drive setup and configure the SSD for > boot and the second drive for Time Machine. But after the damage to the > board, I thought to myself, "Well, that's actually dumb, because if the TM > backup is external, I can boot up another machine and recreate my entire > system without having to dig out the drive if the mini craps out." I don't > need more than the 960G single in the mini since my data is all external and > my whole system (OS, apps, three accounts, and all their data) leaves almost > 500G free space on the boot drive, another reason why the speed up is so > extreme. Nothing makes OS X happier than having LOTS of free space on the > boot drive to manage temps, auto-file-system defragmentation, its built-in > optimization routines, etc. > > I chose a little LaCie 1T ruggedized drive for the backup volume with > Thunderbolt and USB3 interfaces. It rips and operates absolutely silently. > ;-) > > G > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
