Apple Mac Mini (Late 2014) HDD replacement

all right today's video let me stuff in this 480 gigabyte SSD hard drive and this 2014 Mac Mini let's take a look get going alright so I got this little external drive bay here that runs on USB 3.0 the first thing I'm going to do is restart this thing into recovery mode so we can clone the current hard drive that's in there onto this new SSD so we'll do is open this baby up a little quick little thing here comes with this little spacer thing I'm assuming it's it's too small some paperwork in there whatever when I don't care about any of that and there's our SSD drive prong on 80 gigabytes PNY let's just stuff it right here turn it on not readable by this computer let's initialize it 480 goodbye SSD won't be changed the name of that later on down the road and there it is right up there alright let me restart going to recovery mode which is command R I believe okay it's loading recovery mode all right we want to load up your disc utility select this this is not what I want oh oh hey we're going to use a different program okay what I got here is Carbon Copy cloner just downloaded it and what this will give me is the option to clone my hard drive ok so source we want original Mac Mini HDD destination for on our gig 80 gigabyte SSD modify and delete files will be cache space loud ok let's hit clone enter password and that's probably going to take a while so see you when it's done all completed the copy now it's asking me would you like to create an Apple recovery volume and yes I would would like that so we're gonna go ahead and create that I guess you can opt not to if you want but I would like that so I'm going to click on it good cloning ever so I guess I'll just let this recovery stuff do its magic and be right back ok so I didn't really take too long it says it has been successfully cloned well hit OK and I'm assuming it's done I don't know what this is but oh I guess it's not done ok so I'll just hit clone unless somebody's doing it again I don't know ok yeah so I think that was just kind of like a backup for the clone the clone Drive um so I'm just going to quit that time you login No okay so what I want to do is tests to make sure we can actually boot from that drive see we can select it as a startup disk yep so it looks like we can't select it so it is a hopefully a bootable disk at this point one more test here we'll go to utilities terminal and then I got a little string text here to see all our partitions disk util list and just to make sure they are identical if I efi recovery yep so I did there is a recovery HD everything looks the same so quick terminal quit that and what I do want to show also is the speed of a current Drive that's in there and I have this black magic to speed test just to give you an idea we should be seeing probably about four to five times faster drive once I get this SSD in there so the write speeds about mmm I'll run around about ninety the right Oh today on 80 so 70 and 80 and we should be seeing you know at least three times that four times probably five times so and the next test for the current drive that's in there I'm going to eject this make sure it's not booting from this one we'll do a start-up bench test here with the current drive so let's do a restart and once I hear the chime I will start the timer okay about 54 55 seconds so just under a minute and now let me shut this down we can crack this sucker open okay first thing we need to do is pry this cover off here now I do want to warn you if you just purchase this and it's still under warranty this will void your warranty because none of this is user replaceable so this thing's out of warranty at this point so I have no problem opening up and pretty confident my abilities to actually do this so then I did get a bunch of tools from iFixit that's the guide I'm going to be following so I'll put a link for that so you can follow along also and all we got to do is pry this thing so there's the cover this is Mac Mini on there kyoool wipe the dust away okay we got total of six screws here and it's a TR six it looks like this is the wireless transmitter okay so all six screws are out should just lift right out I believe there is some sort of a wire that's holding this on it's right here now you know what I need a light there's our light we've got our light then I need to remove the screw here which is a t6 so you should just pop right off I think yep and that's that there's the cover wipe that off all right next is our fan here and more t6 screws which I believe are here here and here and there is a connector here you can see it so there's our connector right there and pull straight up I think yep pull straight up and there's our fan next up is our SATA cable connector and another te6 whoopsie so that connector just kind of pops straight up there's some kind of a bracket on there to hold it in place next up we'll remove the IR sensor which is right here okay we don't have a PCIe cable so we want to worry about removing that and next we'll remove one of the logic board connectors here and I'm assuming it is another t6 longer screw there and the next up I gotta put a I'm died and buy this tool but I'm going to just bend a coat hanger I got to put the coat hanger on these two holes here and kind of push it back to the slides to the whole logic board so that comes out so let me cut and Bend and I'm assuming this is gonna fit oh it's too thick okay so I got a thinner coat hanger here luckily I had one laying around okay so there we go all you had to do is push it forward maybe make sure you're not holding sides okay so that's been dislodged take that out and I should be able to just do that by hand I believe we got a unhook this guy here next and there you go there's the logic board and all that cool stuff there next up we got a little clip in here right there that's got to come out so that just kind of comes out that's how power connector is maybe like that all you have to do is you turn it like that and remove a screw run a t6 this just slides right out so basically just a complete teardown on this thing just to get to the damn hard drive that slides up like that and there's your power supply nice small brick and everything - next up is another screw somewhere which is right here and finally after all that nigga's out here there is the hard drive time now we got to get it up out of this tray here put everyone in first we got clean in there you are there isn't it the empty casing and our hard drive tray thinking we just got four screws okay so our t9 for the actual tray yeah we want to get this cable out of the way I think maybe then we'll leave it there for now two more screws in this hard drive is almost out okay and I believe we do have some tape or something holding holding that on so gently remove that and this can own that comes off somehow oh we got taped there now a piece of tape across that now gotta get out of there going across okay now let's just pop right off yep and there we have it easy right all right it's the drive now we're going to do is put in this guy here and hope that it boots right up and I don't have to restore the damn thing again or reinstall everything there are these like foam pads here that I guess I'll try to transfer over as long as they're still sticky yep there there's that I'll just keep that as backup and we'll put our SATA power data connector on and we'll just put this piece of tape back over it just for shits and giggles okay you can make sure our data cable goes through or our connector which ever it is and fits in there too like a glove now we just got to do everything in Reverse okay so no drive set in place let's grab our enclosure again and figure out where this thing goes yep looks good and our screw back here and back in put the power supply back in here screw it down we gotta get this back into position that's about it we got to put our pin back in there doesn't really snap in or anything you just kind of hold that so it doesn't go back and forth just kind of goes in between this plastic lip on the power supply plug okay we ready to put the logic board back in and that should just go in straight like this probably I'll hook this back up here that's hooked up again okay there it is yeah let's mm-hmm the logic board screw back in there okay plug that back in somehow like it lets back in now for this guy like that and we have our little bracket here we got to put back on all right we're ready for the fan already which goes on somehow like just I believe just plug in right like that oh yeah come on fish begin okay I found it back in place screw down ready to put our metal shroud back on here you get two plugged in somewhere I've get them back I believe right here yeah connectors are so tiny screw back on and try to connect it get a magnifying glass for Christ's sake I should get Wireless anyways but when I do I know we're screwed up and that's that book the fan shroud or the a fan shroud sure fan shroud I guess it is kind of a fan shroud it is covering fan kinda but our little metal shroud here posters back in a longer post go here here and here that's where the bottom cover snaps on - okay now for our plastic cover goes on right like this and that's all there is to it now let's plug it back in fire it up pulpit boots if not ought to reinstall operating system but slope of the cloning worked okay we're back and hitting the power button there's the chime oh there it is hello go come on come on looking good ah yeah okay now one extra step that you may not know of is to enable trim and what trim does is let's look it up and learn together because I'm not sure what it does I believe it's like a data management within you know how the data is stored without on the actual solid-state drive okay so it has to do with like data management when things are deleted or whatnot so there's no left behind ghost files I guess I don't know read up it looks like it's pretty extensive description but to actually enable trim you do get better performance if trim is enabled from what I hear anyways so what we have to do is go into terminal type the pseudo trim force enable so we'll go to utilities terminal like I already tell it much faster pseudo trim force enable and some kind of warning and yes already read it before and that system is going to reboot right after I hit yes so enabling trim a person exceeded your system will reboot momentarily please wait wait Aang okay so there you go finally rebooted and hopefully didn't screw anything up that's another another caution is make sure that you that your drive actually does support trim and it does work under OS 10 and there it is we're back at our desktop quick terminal close that quitter TextEdit and we'll go into settings here up now I don't want to do that so there's our pn y CS 13 11 480 gigabyte so everything is working 408 gigabytes and there you have it let's do a quick speed test here oh yeah there you go 490 see yeah it's about Bob 419 megabytes a second on our and for 70 on our read and we were at what 1980 before so over four times the speed boost that one was only 170 180 right know what's going on there so it looks like this one is hovering around 150 megabytes a second and that might improve as time goes on as the drive gets burned in I think that's how it works anyways so let's quit that let's do a restart and see how long our boot takes so we'll restart oops it's on once I hear the chime I will hit the timer and we were at fifth by 55 seconds with the mechanical Drive so man we only shaved off about six seven seconds with our SSD so not a huge improvement there but as far as opening a bunch of applications it might be a lot better a lot quicker to launch applications and everything so now there you have it there's a little tutorial and speed test comparison to see if it's worth it for you to crack yours open new to yours so thanks for watching and give a thumbs up thumbs down let me know what you think leave some comments you know what to do

Channel: Game & Tech Dome

Views: 148,379

Keywords: mac mini ssd, solid state drive, macintosh, mac mini, mini, apple mac mini, apple, hard drive, hdd, ssd, replacement, upgrade, tear down, tear-down, teardown, ifixit, ifix it, late 2014, 2014

Id: FO60A6BzkiE

Length: 25min 27sec (1527 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 24 2016