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2013 MAC MINI HARD DRIVE REPLACEMENT UPGRADE
2013 MAC MINI HARD DRIVE REPLACEMENT MAC
2013 MAC MINI HARD DRIVE REPLACEMENT WINDOWS

One of the best upgrades to make is to swap out the old mechanical hard drive for an SSD.

2013 MAC MINI HARD DRIVE REPLACEMENT MAC

Set aside a couple of hours, and you'll be able to bring your old Mac back to life.īetter than using your fingers, this pry tool kit is worth having in your tool kit for those hard to remove and tiny parts. None of these parts are particularly expensive, and none of the work is particularly complicated or time-consuming.

2013 MAC MINI HARD DRIVE REPLACEMENT UPGRADE

You can upgrade the RAM to a maximum of 16GB you can swap out the internal hard drive for an SSD, and even add a second drive for even more storage. On more recent models, users have been able to upgrade some bits, such as the RAM in the 2018 release, but in the 2012 model, you can go ahead and get really crazy. The 2012 model remains to this day Apple's last, properly upgradeable Mac Mini.

Magic cable: Mac Mini second drive kit ($15 at Amazon).

Right tools: ORIA Magnetic Screwdriver set ($18 at Amazon).

A second hard drive: Seagate Firecuda 1TB ($63 at Amazon).

The right cable: AmazonBasics miniDP to DP ($11 at Amazon).

Blowing cobwebs: Canned air ($11 at Newegg).

More memory: Crucial 16GB RAM kit ($90 at Amazon).

New storage: Kingston 480GB SSD ($56 at Amazon).

Here we'll walk you through breathing new life into your old Mac for not a lot of money. It remains Apple's last properly upgradeable Mac Mini, and even in 2020 can be a pretty handy little computer with the right bits inside. That figure of 5 W is startlingly low, another important tick in the mini’s pros list.The 2012 Mac Mini held a special place in many hearts thanks to how easy it was to upgrade. Today’s most affordable Mac mini was found to have just 5 W requirements, rising to a maximum of 40 W when running flat out. The last time we measured a Mac mini it was drawing just 10 W of power from the mains when at the idle desktop. This change introduced Intel’s later FinFET ‘3D’ transistors, along with numerous other power-efficiency adjustments to improve battery economy in the laptop and mobile computing age.

Power consumption figures have been reduced, as you may expect from not just a slower processor clock, but a change from Ivy Bridge to Haswell generation silicon. With no obvious difference in rendering quality to our eyes, this tweak makes the game a more viable option on this Mac.

We switched the game to Legacy OpenGL mode, where it then returned framerates of 34.5 and 24.4 fps for otherwise exactly the same configuration. Stepping up to Normal quality lowered framerate further to 15.8 fps. At 1280 x 720 screen resolution and Low detail settings, the Mac mini mustered just 19.4 fps. Tomb Raider 2013 uses the latest OpenGL 4.1 API which seems to require much more horsepower to run smoothly, in this game at least. Gaming, we found, is not really viable for the Mac mini unless you play older games and/or turn down video quality to very low settings.īatman: Arkham City could average 31 fps when set to 1280 x 720 pixels and Medium quality, albeit with minima at 15 fps which would be noticeable as stutters in gameplay. Cinebench played at 22 and 23.1 fps for versions 11.5 and 15 of Cinebench, with the latter result around 1.5 fps faster than the iMac – which again could be explained by revisions in the core OS. Graphics tests also showed the same kind of performance as the entry-level iMac, with both machines relying solely on Intel HD Graphics 5000 within the Core i5 processor. Version 15 scored the Mac mini with 97 and 236 points (98 and 240 points iMac). Version 11.5 of the CPU test ranked the Mac mini with 1.1 and 2.49 points (versus 1.13 and 2.58 for the iMac).

In the Cinebench tests we also saw the same kind of performance figures as the iMac (Mid-2014, 21.5-inch). So DIYers looking to make a dual-drive Mac mini out of a single-drive purchase will be out of luck. However even now, more than a year after Apple’s PCIe-attachment technology was introduced with 2013’s MacBook Air, there is still no third-party manufacturer able to make a drop-in replacement to upgrade capacity.

2013 MAC MINI HARD DRIVE REPLACEMENT WINDOWS

Apple’s PCIe-attached flash drives are close to twice as fast as those available to Windows PCs, which still uniformly rely on the SATA Revision 3 bus protocol. That’s still the case, although there’s only one SATA connector on the logic board now, since the Fusion or Flash Drive models now work with PCIe-attached solid-state drives. Since the optical drive was stripped from the Unibody chassis with the mid-2011 refresh, the Mac mini has had space for two 2.5in SATA drives inside.

Mac mini or MacBook Air: low cost Macs comparedįor storage, the Mac mini still comes in 5 GB hard-disk configurations, with the same additional Fusion Drive and SSD-only options, the latter now up to 1 TB Flash Drive for just the top 2.8 GHz processor model.