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Apple Mac Mini 1TB Upgrade — Not Easy But Possible
designperfection9 writes "The new Mac mini is all well and good, but anybody hoping for gobfuls of extra capacity will come away disappointed. Apple's entry-level mini gets 120GB of storage, and it costs $175 to take that up the official 320GB maximum. Happily iFixit decided to step in and take matters into their own hands, with a nine-page pictorial guide to fitting your Mac mini with 1TB of storage." They're also offering a kit to accomplish the same end for $250 — that seems high to me now that 1TB external drives can be had for quite a bit less, and require no putty-knife action to install.
The summary says the actual content is on iFixit, but the link goes to some useless blog which then links to iFixit.
Link directly to the content, include a via link if you want to reference where you got the link from.
For the record, the proper article URL where the actual content is follows:
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/Mac-mini-A1283-Terabyte-Drive/660/1
I used to get high on life, but I developed a tolerance. Now I need something stronger.
The Mac Mini takes notebook hard drives. They only go up to 500GB right now. Getting 1TB requires removing the optical drive, which now with this generation is SATA so it's actually compatible with decent-sized hard drives.
I used to get high on life, but I developed a tolerance. Now I need something stronger.
*Sigh* The MacMini was/is not meant to be upgraded. If you want an upgradeable machine, don't buy a MacMini. Complaining that take it takes an excessive amount of work to upgrade it is like complaining that it takes a massive amount of work to make a MiniCooper pull a boat.
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