Intro 💅
Importer photo android sur mac. I 'rescued' a 2018 mac mini(8th Gen i3, 8Gb Ram, 128SSD). My idea was to use it for my personal home recording studio. I read the ram was upgradeable but the storage is sadly soldered into the unit. iFixit awarded the new Mac mini a repairability score of 6/10, with 10 being the easiest to repair, topping the latest MacBook Air, MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac, and iMac Pro, and trailing only the 2013 Mac Pro. Read the original article here.
'The new Mac mini earned its higher repairability score thanks to its straightforward disassembly with no tough adhesive or proprietary pentalobe screws and user-upgradeable RAM. However, it didn't earn a perfect score due to the soldered-down CPU, storage, and ports, impacting repairs and upgrades.'
So, it made sense to find an external SSD and run operations from there. Just logic pro x takes 70 Gb with all the samples etc. By the time i got everything running at minimum, i only had like 15 Gb left. So here's what i did:
Working it out 🤹♀️
What you will need 🧐
Mac Mini Replace Hard Drive
Is the SSD the same physical size as my current hard drive? Up until the 2012 iMacs, Apple has used a 3.5 inch hard drive, and the standard SSD drive is 2.5'. To secure the SSD into the 3.5' space in the iMac you need a bracket. From 2012 the 21.5' iMacs came with a 2.5' drive. From 2017 the 27' iMacs shipped with a 2.5' hard drive. Intro 💅 I 'rescued' a 2018 mac mini(8th Gen i3, 8Gb Ram, 128SSD). My idea was to use it for my personal home recording studio. I read the ram was upgradeable but the storage is sadly soldered into the unit. IFixit awarded the new Mac mini a repairability score of 6/10, with 10 being the easiest to repair, topping the latest MacBook Air, MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac, and iMac Pro, and trailing. In this video, I swap the hard drive out in a Late-2012 Mac Mini. For the cloning procedure, see my playlist below. I have a newer video on cloning a Mac sys. Upgrade or replace the hard drive in a Mac Mini. Has your Mac Mini hard drive filled to capacity or burnt out? There's no need to buy a new computer, simply swap out the old drive for a new one. Have read your article on how to get mac OS onto a blank SSL (in my case in a 2011 Mac mini that won't boot into Recovery mode.) with an installer USB drive. Unfortunately, you do not address the problem of being unable to download the High Sierra installer from the App Store to a working Mac running under Catalina.
- External SSD Hard drive. (I won't suggest brands or capacity leaving that to what you find fit for yourself)
- A Mac!
Getting the job done 🤓
- First of all, go to disk utility and format your new hard drive. For this you have to choose either
APFSorMacOs Extended (Journaled), encryption is up to you. Just make sure you remember your password. (⚠️ THIS MEANS YOUR ENTIRE EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE CONTENT WILL BE ERASED! proceed with caution and, to be safe, use a new external hard drive) - Once you have formatted your hard drive, restart your Mac, then press and hold
Command(⌘)+Rimmediately after you see the Apple logo. Your Mac starts up frommacOS Recovery. - When you see the macOS Utilities window, choose
Utilities > Startup Security Utility from the menu bar. - When you're asked to authenticate, click
Enter macOS Password, then choose an administrator account and enter its password. - You will see something like this:
- Select
Allow booting from external media
We are almost done. Don't restart anything yet. Go back to the first screen and click on reinstall macOS:
- Accept all terms and conditions, and you will be prompted to choose the hard drive where you want to install the operating system on. Click on it and install. The machine will restart a few times.
- You will eventually end up at your regular login screen. If you are in the machine where you will be booting your external hard drive from, you have two options to boot. You can press the
optionkey every time you turn on your computer, and select what hard drive to boot from, or you can switch permanently to your external hard drive.
If you want your machine to always boot from the external hard drive: Xversion 1 3 6 x 2.
- Choose
Apple()menu>System Preferences, then clickStartup Disk. - Click the lock icon and enter your administrator password.
- Select your startup disk, then restart your Mac.
That's all folks! 🐷
Enjoy all your extra storage space!. Remember that you can always switch back to your original startup disk!
Cheerio!
The 2018 Mac mini just launched as the most powerful Mac (for the price), and it got a massive upgrade after four years of neglect. This is prompting a lot of folks to wonder if it's time to upgrade the Mac minis in their life. iOS and Mac app development teams are interested in upgrading their continuous integration (CI) infrastructure. Mac minis behind TVs, under desks, and in closets could also be good candidates for a refresh.
We've definitely seen a wave of customers making the upgrade here at MacStadium. If you're not familiar, we host over 8,000 Mac minis, Mac Pros, and iMac Pros in data centers around the world for huge businesses, small startups, and individuals that need a Mac 'in the cloud.'
Mac Internal Hard Drive Replacement
So, what happens when the world starts upgrading Mac minis? It's slightly different from other technology refresh cycles for two main reasons: 1) The Mac minis from 2014 or even 2012 still run great! 2) The four-year gap since the last refresh means the new minis are way faster. This leaves us in a position where lots of people are upgrading minis, but the old minis still have a lot of life in them.. so what to do?
Macbook Hard Drive Replacement
We've put together a short list of ideas but would love to hear others. Have a good use for an old mini? Let us know! (#newlife4oldmini)
Swap or recycle minis as part of the Apple Giveback program. You can trade-in your mini with Apple in exchange for a store gift card or a refund on a new purchase. If your mini is in bad shape or isn't eligible for credit, Apple will recycle it for free. Turn that old mini into something good for you, good for the planet, or both!
Give them away to kids, friends, or your local church or charity. Pay it forward – give new life to your old mini by passing it along to someone who can put it to good use.
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Set them up behind a TV to run a dashboard or play movies. Here at MacStadium, we've been known to setup an old mini behind a TV or two. They are great for running sales dashboards, looping videos or slide shows, or streaming Apple keynotes on a big screen.
Setup your old mini as a media server. Use Plex to store and organize all your video, music, and photo libraries and stream them to your other devices.
Create a home automation node.Homebridge is a lightweight Node.js server you can run on your home network that emulates the iOS HomeKit API. It supports plugins that can bridge HomeKit to various 'smart home' devices, allowing you to ask Siri to control devices that don't have any support for HomeKit at all.
Use a mini as a controller for an art project or robot. Make your own Mobile Mac mini bot!
Setup a remote macOS desktop for when you're on the go (you can remote-in from an iOS device in your pocket). Check out 'iPad Diaries' from MacStories. Federico shares great tips and tricks for accessing and controlling a Mac mini from an iPad.
Set a mini up as a backup server with a big USB hard drive. Mac mini, the perfect Time Machine backup destination.
Set your mini up as a web/file server. Brian Stucki published a great list of ways to use your Mac server… the possibilities are endless!
Change Mac Mini Hard Drive
Of course, you could send in your old Mac mini for colocation at MacStadium so all of these powerful things can be done from the cloud. Or ditch the old Mac mini and sign up for a brand new, shiny, space gray version at MacStadium. See how easy it is to get started with a 24-hour free trial.
