You will need a putty knife or small paint scraper to remove the Mac Mini's casing, a Phillips head #2 screwdriver, a pair of tweezers, and either a replacement 2.5-inch solid-state drive or a ...

The Mac Mini has room for two hard drives, although it doesn't include mounting materials or connections for an additional drive. Third-party manufacturers offer hardware kits for mounting a ...

The company also sells the OWC Mount Pro (now only $18), which lets you mount the SSD on a custom-fit replacement for the Mac Pro’s hard drive bay. This is an easier solution, and the one I’d ...

Apple's new Mac mini can be taken apart in fifteen steps with an easy-to-follow, photo-rich instruction guide from a third-party solutions provider, which has also announced a do-it-yourself ...

Owners of earlier models may look at the new versions with a tinge of envy, especially if their Mac mini uses a mechanical hard drive. ... a Time Machine drive, and the replacement SSD.

So I bought a 480GB SSD, an external hard drive docking station, and a torx screwdriver set off Amazon. From my experience with the pre-2014 Mac minis, this would be a relatively painless process.

Mac mini Replacement hard drive Thin putty knife Small Phillips screwdriver (magnetized preferred) iPod Backup 2.02. The first thing I did was back up everything to the iPod photo. The easiest way to ...

With regard to odd noises emanating from the Mac mini hard drive, it appears that there are two different symptoms accompanying two separate issues. In the first type, what can best be described ...

In response to complaints lodged of failing hard drives lodged two years ago, Apple has launched a “MacBook Repair Extension Program for Hard Drive Issues” that will allow some MacBook owners ...

MacBooks bought between 2006 and 2007 could be eligible for a free hard drive replacement, with Apple dodging a guilty admission, stating that “a very small percentage…may fail under certain ...