I notice that most people doing upgrades are going for 320 gb drives. Is that the maximum the minis can take?
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What's the largest hard drive you can put in a mini?
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Try and find one to buy though....no place has them available that I saw....closest was "ships in approx 17 days"
Next week in the UK: http://www.techstore.co.uk/browse.php?a=p&prodLineID=141708. Must be able to get them in the US somewhere.
How? The most I've seen is 1TB (via ifixit's kit), but even then that was by using a 500GB in the hard drive spot and a 500GB (rather hackishly) in the optical drive spot. The same approach would work for 2TB, I guess, but 1TB 2.5" hard drives don't yet exist.
I suppose you could then RAID0 them into 1TB, except then if either one of the drives goes, everything goes. :/
By using two 1TB 2.5" SSDs.
Hey, I didn't say that it would be cost effective right now... It can just be done.
Oh rightBy using two 1TB 2.5" SSDs.
Hey, I didn't say that it would be cost effective right now... It can just be done.
. . . . so probably not then.Dell has the 500GB 7200RPM seagate in stock. I bought one yesterday.
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/...etail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=341-8658
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/...etail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=341-8658
I think 320 is the largest you can order from the Apple store. Given how hard it is to get inside a Mini, I'd order one fully loaded instead of trying to upgrade it later.
By using two 1TB 2.5" SSDs.
Hey, I didn't say that it would be cost effective right now... It can just be done.
Thanks for that tip. I just ordered two of them.
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You're just all about making things have ludicrously more storage space than they're designed to, aren't you?
So what's the price for one of these terabyte SSDs?
You're just all about making things have ludicrously more storage space than they're designed to, aren't you?
Yeah, you know what they say - it's the size that matters.
No, I was just being facetious. At this point, I'd only get an SSD for a notebook. But I'm sure one day we'll all think that 1 TB SSD drives are too small for any serious computer work.
Yeah, you know what they say - it's the size that matters.
No, I was just being facetious. At this point, I'd only get an SSD for a notebook. But I'm sure one day we'll all think that 1 TB SSD drives are too small for any serious computer work.
No. That day we as consumers wont have hard drives. Everything will be online, everywhere. You will stream 1080p movies from your cellphone from your "cyberdrive" to your buddys TV.
What would the benefit be of putting a 7200 rpm drive in a mini given the fact that the 9400 M integrated graphics may bottleneck the system? Sorry but I'm just trying to understand what the benefit of changing the drive would be in a system with the 9400 M.
Getting inside isn't the only issue. The HD temp sensor and the WIFI antennas have presented some difficulty. Several users have broken or pinched these connections. For some people, paying a service center $80 to install the RAM and disk is worth the peace of mind. I paid to have it installed even though I've taken my out of warranty 2006 MBP completely apart to change the screen. I just didn't want to mess around inside my brand new mini.
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