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#Late 2012 mac mini drive replacement install#
#Late 2012 mac mini drive replacement upgrade#
#Late 2012 mac mini drive replacement full#
#Late 2012 mac mini drive replacement software#

Read the dialogue box carefully, making certain you erase the blank disk and not your source RAID volume. Boot from an external drive with Disk Utility, open Disk Utility, select in the left sidebar a blank volume/partition (at least 2 TB in size in this case) on an external drive, and ask to Restore the RAID volume to it (Edit > Restore or Command-Shift-R, and then select the internal RAID volume).If you don't have the disk image routine that I already have for off site backups, you'll want to use this instead, especially since you can boot from it in case things fall apart somewhere and you need to get back to work: When the image of your boot drive is complete, then scan that image file so that it can be restored (Image > Scan Image for Restore…).Īs it turned out, I ended up adding a third backup. Boot from an external drive with Disk Utility, open Disk Utility, select the RAID volume from the Mac mini in the left sidebar and then select File > New Image > Image from or press Command-Option-N.From the Time Machine menu extra (or from System Preferences > Time Machine), select Backup Now and wait until the backup completes.I made certain both of those were current.

#Late 2012 mac mini drive replacement full#

I also periodically make a full backup of my boot drive using Disk Utility, which I then store off site. I use Time Machine for my day-to-day backup using a Time Capsule on our home network.

Repurpose the Leftover Hard Drive (optional).

Restore All Your Data to the Fusion Drive.Add a macOS Recovery Partition (optional).Create (or Retrieve) an External Boot Drive/Volume.

#Late 2012 mac mini drive replacement software#

Optional: AutoDMG, the Open Source software tool from Per Olafsson that modularly creates a bootable macOS volume in a disk image, suitable for block-coping.

#Late 2012 mac mini drive replacement install#

Optional: A current macOS Installer (e.g., Install macOS Sierra).

Optional: External 2.5" drive enclosure (so that you can repurpose the hard drive that gets removed I chose a Vantec NexStar 6G USB 3.0 enclosure with which I have had good success at work).

A static-free work surface (at work, I have an anti-static mat and a wrist strap, but at home I had to settle for a wood table on a wood floor with something grounded nearby to regularly discharge static the OWC web site has a very informative page on static that I recommend you read).

Torx T6, Torx T8, and 2.0 mm Hex screwdrivers (I had a 15-piece set from The Source that is no longer available, but you could choose the NewerTech 11-piece set, which also has a pry tool that could be handy).

2.5" SATA Solid State Drive (I chose a 250 GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO).

An external bootable disk/volume with Disk Utility and Terminal included (you may want a macOS Recovery partition as well).

External storage for backups with at least the capacity of your two internal drives (in my case, I needed at least 2 TB).

#Late 2012 mac mini drive replacement upgrade#

A Mac mini (2011 or 2012) with two internal hard drives configured as a RAID (it's certainly possible to upgrade your single drive Mac mini to a Fusion Drive, but it requires an extra drive mounting kit and many more steps, so it will not be discussed here).

This article documents the most effective way I found to do so and the resources I used, providing additional details along the way that would have been helpful to me. I knew I could create a Fusion Drive on my Mac mini so long as there was one internal SSD and one hard drive, so I decided to do that to improve my performance. Since I was taking up less than 700 GB of space on the internal drives of my Mac at home, I could afford to remove one of the two 1 TB hard drives, at least with regards to the amount of storage I needed. 4 processor cores), I attributed the performance bump to the presence of an internal SSD.

Since some aspects of the Late 2014 model were not as good as the 2012 model (mostly 2 vs. When my hardware at work was upgraded from a Late 2012 Mac mini (single HD) to a Late 2014 Mac mini with a Fusion drive, I noticed a significant performance upgrade. I've been using my Mac mini Server (Late 2012) for some time now in a RAID 0 configuration (2 internal 1 TB hard drives, showing up in the Finder as a single 2 TB volume).