Compatibility: Mac Mini A1347. Note: Light shooting and different displays may cause the color of the item in the picture a little different from the real thing. 1 Hard Drive Cable. 2 L type screwdriver. eBay!
- 1 x New Second Dual Hard Drive SSD Flex Cable 821-1501-A for Mac Mini A1347 Server Notice: Repair Tools and Repair Guide are not in included.You can search the repair guide on YouTube. If you can't do it by yourself, please find some skilled person for help.
- Aug 3, 2016 - I have read where the logic board is capable of working with SATA III drives which allows for the installation of either a HDD or SSD.
I'm very glad that you succeeded in installing a second HDD in the mac mini 256 GB SSD only version. I wanted to do this but I was waiting for some more information to surface on the net. For now, I am using an external which contains my music and videos. However, the mac mini is so quiet that I'm annoyed by the noise the external drive makes. I'm planning to add to my mac mini.
Is it possible for you to tell me what I need to buy in order to open and install the drive successfully? So far, it seems I will need the following in addition to the new HDD: SATA flex cable, Rubber grommets, T6H screwdriver, Tools to open up the mac mini.
Is it possible to post some links to where I can buy all these items? Are the ifixit tools to open up the mac mini 2012 valid for the 2014? Thanks in advance! @Nick, sorry I skipped over this comment. As long as your new HGST is 9.5mm in height or less (i.e. 7mm), your post have every thing you'll need. The only recommendation is to buy longer depth screws if you prefer your HDD to be screwed down.
(see my post below). My recommendation is to take the disk bay, grommets and HDD to a hardware store and pick your ideal screws. Note - I couldn't screw my HDD in, but I was happy with just the grommets, as this held my HDD securely in place. I think most of your items you need could be had from amazon. I'm in Australia, and shipping times are long for us, so I paid extra to buy everything locally.
If you're in the States, I'm sure your shipping times from OWC, Amazon and others should be fast:) Hope that helps. In short YES it's the same.
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I used the OWC MacMini kit which is similar to the iFixit kit. Here is what I used: But here is what I also recommend I did run into a slight road bump. The rubber grommets provided in my OWC kit did fit in the disk bay, but they didn't allow for my HDD to be screwed as the screw length became too short. So I just left my HDD in without screwing it in - which i'm happy with. (As the grommets allowed for zero movement).
Note I also used a 7200rpm hdd (WD 750GB), so you can feel (if you touch it) and slightly hear (not loud) the 7200rpm disk spinning. Note - You must also obtain a T6H screen driver to get into the 2014 MacMini. Hopefully that helps.