vorrei sapere se esiste il kit per l'installazione di un HD SSD aggiuntivo per questo modello; ho visto che per il modello 2011 esiste.

Grazie

⟐ Answered gennaio 22, 2024 at 20:00 GMT-7

⟐ Answered aprile 10, 2022 at 13:05 GMT-7

La mia domanda quindi è quasi retorica.

Esiste la possibilità di fare l’incremento di memoria anche rivolgendosi a qualche centro assistenza?

Vi ringrazio e saluto

Io alludevo all'incremento della memoria di sistema del MAC MINI 2014.

⟐ Answer accepted settembre 06, 2020 at 14:53 GMT-7

ho un problema. Ho un mac mini late 2014 ed ho installato un ssd.

Fin’ora l’ho usato solo per navigare e vedere qualcosa e non ho mai avuto problemi.

Adesso invece, dato che lo sto utilizzando in maniera più intensiva, ho notato che la ventola rimane fissa a 1800rpm (tramite istat).

È andato in crash un paio di volte per la temperatura troppo elevata, probabilmente colpa di Plex Media Server che con il transcoding sollecita molto la CPU.

Potete darmi qualche consiglio su come muovermi per capire meglio come ovviare a questo problema?

Grazie a tutti.

⟐ Answer accepted gennaio 25, 2020 at 7:38 GMT-7

⟐ Answered maggio 15, 2018 at 23:43 GMT-7

La domanda vera e propria sarebbe, quale KIT dovrei acquistare? non sono pratico e non ci capisco molto ed ho paura di acquistare quello sbagliato, con questo eventuale Kit potrei aggiungere a piacere sia un SSD o un HD meccanico giusto?

Grazie mille!!!!!

⟐ Answer accepted agosto 09, 2017 at 13:19 GMT-7

Una volta rimontato il mac non da più segni di vita. La ventola gira piano per 1 secondo e poi si ferma.

Qualcuno mi saprebbe aiutare?

Grazie

⟐ Commented agosto 07, 2017 at 9:14 GMT-7

The internet has been strangely silent on this topic. I haven't been able to find anything definitive from either iFixit or OWC, which are usually all over upgrades like these.

⟐ Answered novembre 21, 2025 at 8:42 GMT-7

I have the Mac mini late 2014, the mid model, with the i5 at 2,6 ghz, iris graphics, 8 gb ram, 1 TB HDD.

From what I gather, I have a free slot on the machine for an SSD. All I need to do is to buy a cable from IFIXIT.

I want to get a SSD and use it with the 1 TB HDD that already come with the Mini. What interface should the new SSD be? M.2? Also, I have a SATA 3 SSD in a drawer... I can't use it at all,no?

⟐ Answered dicembre 05, 2020 at 11:49 GMT-7

Thanks in advance.

⟐ Commented agosto 25, 2020 at 4:15 GMT-7

Thanks for reply.

⟐ Answer accepted giugno 16, 2015 at 14:12 GMT-7

⟐ Answer accepted giugno 18, 2017 at 19:08 GMT-7

How difficult it is (if possible)?

⟐ Commented gennaio 13, 2022 at 4:32 GMT-7

I'd like to make it a dual drive setup, but can't confirm what part is needed to do so. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

⟐ Commented luglio 17, 2019 at 11:46 GMT-7

I have the late mac mini 2014 model with PCI flash only. I want to add a hard disk drive to increase internal storage and create a single fusion model.

Can someone confirm whether this is possible and which kit in need to buy. I've understood that the sata cable for the HHD is not included in the PCI-only version.

Many thanks

⟐ Commented dicembre 06, 2018 at 12:17 GMT-7

Off topic: The reason I bought the Mac Mini was because I got a 4k display and my Macbook Air wasn't able to drive the display. The Mini seems to be working but the UI elements (like the top bar, finder windows, etc) are all very very very tiny (screenshot here). Is there a way to scale those up?

⟐ Answer accepted agosto 10, 2015 at 6:53 GMT-7

After days of tests and readings, I turn to you to seek for advice.

Here is my problem:

I am trying to upgrade a new Mac Mini (Late 2014 model) from it's original mechanical HDD to a Vertex 2 SSD I have been using for a few years with no problems to report, great product.

First 1 cloned my HDD onto the Vertex 2 SSD using SuperDuper, all went well.

I then switched disks and set the SSD in the SATA III slot inside the Mac Mini and reboot... the disk would boot, the recovery system and the disk utility would not see the disk (or it would see it just long enough to try to make a disk verification and then would disappear).

Here is what I have already tried:

- Boot from Linux LiveCD, I can see the Vertex SSD, I can see all it's file and browse them

- Reformat the disk, in HFS+ with GUID partition table

- Clean PRAM

- Perform a Hardware Check - all good

- Boot from the original HDD connected through a SATA-to-USB adapter - all good, i can boot the system, but i don't see the SSD drive (or only for a moment then as soon as i try some action on it (like a disk verification) it stalls and then disappears)

- Try to OCZ toolbox to make a security erase and start fresh. I had here a major issue, the OCZ toolbox would not start, it froze after a lot of complaints a "Scanning for hard disk partitions and creating /etc/fstab" and wouldn't move.

- Dissassembled the Mac Mini, removed the SSD, put it in a Macbook Pro, use OCZ Toolbox on it, this time, it loaded perfectly, identified the disk, i did a firmware update to the latest (1.37) and performed a security erase. All went perfectly. For verificiation I rebooted in recovery mode from the Macbook with the SSD and formatted properly the disk using the Apple Disk Utility (GUIP partition table+ HFS+ partition) and the system neatly identified it as a good host for system install. Then i removed the Vertex 2 SSD from the Macbook pro, put it back in the Mac Mini (reassembled it - god, that's a big pain !) and boot it again in recovery, only to see... nothing, the disk is still not recognized by the system.

Voilà... now I'm out of idea, It could be some low level hardware incompatibility, or anything else, i read about TRIM and Yosemite sometime not behaving well, about SATA II and SATA III compatibility problems, but so far, nothing clear.

I therefore welcome in anticipation your knowledge and hope we can figure this out. For the sake of extending the reach, I will also post this on Anandtech and Apple support forums. Links will be added.

OCZForum

AnandTech Forum

Apple Support Forum

⟐ Answered dicembre 14, 2014 at 7:27 GMT-7

But I want to replace installed 1TB 5400 rpm HD with Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD. I read all of the posts and answers here but I am not sure that it will work :( I already ordered a repait kit from ifixit...

Can anybody help me about this question because I already bought my mini mac since I thought HD->SDD upgrade would be possible. And I dont want to buy an extra SSD for nothing.

Best wishes...

Devrim

My SATA interface and HD like as follows, according to the system report.

Any issue?

⟐ Commented gennaio 05, 2019 at 17:01 GMT-7

Would like to check if a Samsung M.2 PCIe SSD (MZHPV256HDGL) might work on my Mini.

Have been told that with an adapter for the Flex Cable identified as 821-00010-A and all should work perfectly, but it doesn't!

The Mini doesn't even detects the drive! Verified thru the System Information tool, Disk Utility, etc.

Thanks in advance to the community!

Guillermo

Hello, we’re in July 2023, and despite @danj or @mayer awful comments/recommendations, my custom configuration still works like the first day 💪 💪 💪

I strongly recommend buying the specific adapter (Flex Cable identified as 821-00010-A), and any PCIe SSD with respective connector, to boost & upgrade your 2014 Mini.

Regards!!

⟐ Commented luglio 05, 2024 at 3:27 GMT-7

I have a Mac mini Late 2014, it works fine when im using it but cannot update OS not install new one, each time I try to do it, it comes with up error and points to running diagnostics due to a hardware fault. Ran diagnostics and came back with PPM002 error pointing to an issue with memory module (crappy onboard on this version of Mac mini so can't replace). However when I Run a memory test software like Rember (I've tried a couple of others too) all memory tests come back with no issues. I've attached pics of the diagnostics screen as well as the memory tests.

Any help is appreciated.

⟐ Answered settembre 11, 2024 at 1:17 GMT-7