Installing Mac Mini Late 2012 Dual Hard Drive Kit
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1. adıma gitUse this guide to install iFixit's Dual Hard Drive Kit in your Late 2012 Mac Mini.
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Daha fazlasını göster…
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Place your thumbs in the depressions cut into the bottom cover.
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Rotate the bottom cover counter-clockwise until the white dot painted on the bottom cover is aligned with the ring inscribed on the outer case.
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Remove the two 11.3 mm T6 Torx screws securing the fan to the logic board near the antenna plate.
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Remove the single 3.5 mm T6 Torx screw securing the cowling to the heat sink.
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Remove the following screws securing the antenna plate to the mini:
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Two 6.6 mm T8 Torx screws
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Two 5.0 mm T8 Torx or 2.0 mm Hex screws (either screwdriver will work)
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When putting back together:
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Use the flat end of a spudger to pry the hard drive connector up from its socket on the logic board.
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Bu adımda kullanılan alet:Mac mini Logic Board Removal Tool$4.99
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Insert the Mac mini Logic Board Removal Tool into the two holes highlighted in red. Be sure it makes contact with the top side of outer case below the logic board before proceeding.
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Carefully pull the tool toward the I/O board. The logic board and I/O board assembly should slightly slide out of the outer case.
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Remove the Mac mini Logic Board Removal tool.
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Pull the hard drive away from the front edge of the mini and remove it from the outer case.
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Remove the 7.9 mm T6 Torx screw securing the power supply and hard drive tray to the outer case.
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Remove the 7.9 mm T6 Torx screw securing the hard drive tray to the outer case.
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In the next few steps you will be installing the grommets in the holes located along the brackets boxed in red.
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Use a T6 Torx screwdriver to install two of the set screws on the side of the hard drive closest to the end of the hard drive cable that attaches to the logic board.
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Tighten the screws until they contact the end of the threaded holes in the side of the hard drive. They are shown correctly installed in the third picture.
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Install the second hard drive assembly into the outer case.
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Be sure that the mounting holes line up with the threaded holes in the outer case as seen in the second picture.
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When the logic board is installed, simply connect the second hard drive cable to the free socket on the logic board.
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When you start up your machine, you'll see both drives are recognized by the mini.
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Xbench scores show that if you install hard drives in either the top or the bottom position, their speeds will remain the same.
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After reassembly, boot the mini into Lion Recovery and use disk utility to erase your SSD. Then install Lion on your SSD. After rebooting, go into system preferences>startup disk and choose your SSD as the startup disk.
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To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
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In my system the only way to get an SSD drive (OCZ Agility 3 120G) to work was to install it to the first SATA interface and the original HD to the second SATA interface.
I tried first as said in this guide, but the whole system got very unstable, the SSD was basicly unusable with lots of read errors, kernel panics etc...
After switch everything went smoothly. I cloned the original system to the new SSD with Carbon Copy Cloner, selected the SSD to be the startup disk and rebooted, Now the SSD is primary drive (with huge difference in speed, some 340/300 read/write) and the original 1T HD is secondary drive hosting my iTunes, iMovie and iPhoto archives.
I have a late-2012 MacMini which came with 4GB RAM + 1 TB HDD. The RAM has been upgraded to 12GB. I upgraded the MacOSX to Catalina 10.15 but seems I am having some problems with it. I now want to replace the original 1 TH HDD with a 480GB SSD (and use it as system disk) and also add a second 1TB SSD as a storage disk. And finally re-install MacOSX High Sierra or the later OSX and get rid of Catalina. What would be your advice to place which SSD into which bay? Thank you!
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The iFixit SATA cable does not work with the OCZ Vertex 4 drive using OS X 10.8. I tried both the "upper" and "lower" ports, neither work. Using the Apple supplied SATA cable, the drive works in both ports. Using the iFixit cable with the Apple supplied HDD drive works. Using the iFixit cable, the OCZ drive is detected using the OCZ Mac boot tools. It's just OS X 10.8 that can not see the drive when using the iFixit cable. I've contacted OCZ support.
(Same as Patrick noted above) If you are adding a new SSD to your factory 1TB HD using iFixit's Mac mini HD kit, SWAP the drive positions—so that the SSD is in the original slot connected Apple's SATA cable and the original HD is now in the other bay using iFixit's cable. This issue affects only late-2012 Mac minis that come with a mini-specific build of OS X 10.8.2.