I used a cut piece from a coat hanger for the metal logic board removal tool. So get rid of the HD for a SSD! Don’t waste your money with the PCIe slot either (yes the connector is there) but more $$ than a sata SSD!Ĭompleted the replacement of the normal hard drive with a Kingston A400 SSD without iFixit’s Repair kit. Now, my Mac Mini Late 2014 boots in about 5 seconds and literally flies from application to application like my old Mini did or probably slightly faster.īottom line, Apple should have NEVER put the 5400 rpm HGST HD in a machine with such low memory as the operating system typically uses 6-7 GB RAM. I followed this EXCELLENT guide and replaced the HD with the SSD without much of a problem except removing the HD SATA cable was difficult and I broke the cable. I decided to swap out the HD with an SSD. The OSX is constantly moving active memory from RAM to HD (the base 5400 rpm HGST 25K500-500 HD).īooting was 15-30 seconds and from application to application. My Mac Mini late 2014 1.4GHz i5 with 4 GB RAM sluggish at best as OS X El Capitan (10.11.6) averages 6-8 GB RAM routinely. So don’t look for places to jam things in: just lay the sock in gently and hook it under the clip and just make sure the oval aligns properly around the socket where the AC cord fits in. The entire sock does not really seat strongly into the logic board, it’s sort of a gravity fit.
That clip is pretty much the only thing holding the sock to the board.ģ. The top has a slight indentation that fits directly under a “clip” piece on the logic board. The rectangle has a stiff, rectangular “magnet-like” piece on one side: that’s the bottom.
The oval part goes towards the outside (back) of the board assembly (where all the receptacles are for the external connections) the rectangle goes towards the inside of the machine.Ģ. The sock has two parts, a stiffer rectangle part and a softer oval part with ridges. To help reassemble, I have this advice:ġ. Unless it was seated perfectly when the machine was first put together, the “sock” is likely to come off the logic board assembly when you pop the logic board out.
Now very happy with a fast SSD machine with wireless connectivity. I had thought that my Mac Mini's wireless connectivity might be affected, but it wasn't. After the re-build (with no further problems encountered) it was quite easy to solder the connector pin with attached remains of the socket to the airport card's contact points - there's enough space for easy solder access without other sensitive components nearby. Rather than replace the airport card (that would have a new socket) and a new connector/pin for the cable, I decided it would be worth trying to solder the connecting pin to the (now exposed) contact points for the socket on the airport card.īest time to do this is during the re-build _after_ replacing the hard drive, when the antenna is still unattached to the airport card. In trying to remove the antenna connector pin from its socket on the airport card the socket came away from its location on the airport card completely, together with the cable and connector pin.
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