Comments on: DIY: Replace your intel mac mini’s hard disk drive

By: Tommy

Tommy — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 21:02:07 +0000

Second time I used this excellent tutorial, this time to upgrade to 1TB. This time I managed not to leave a part of my finger in the box when closing it. Thanks again!

By: bram

bram — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 05:26:23 +0000

Excellent guide…
Had my HD replaced with SSD in record time.
Thanks for sharing.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 07:43:41 +0000

Changed mine the other day – almost hassle free

I have a mid 2009 mac mini and was slightly different inside hardware wise

There was a small cable/wire attacahed to the end of the hard drive by a tiny piece of circuit board. Could not figure out how or why it would hard wire into a HDD so I took a deep breath and pulled it off – it was just glued on there

I then stuck it onto the new hard drive and rebooted – all works ok. No idea what the wire is for :S

By: sole

sole — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:18:43 +0000

Hey, the sharpened credit card trick is a new one. Might be useful for people without a putty knife handy! Thanks for the idea :-)

By: Maxim

Maxim — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:40:51 +0000

i used a sharpened credit card to open the case, it is a mac after all! actually, just forgot to buy a putty knife and had a recently expired card nearby…

what i did differently about the disk content: i did not make a copy of the old startup drive, i simply put it into enclosure, booted from it via usb and restored it onto the empty new drive