![]() Macminicolo, a Las Vegas based company, has been hosting Mac minis since their introduction in January 2005. (Of course, if you're a Macminicolo customer that wants to upgrade your server, just let us know. So if you're looking to breath life into a Mac mini, and SSD upgrade is not too hard and not too expensive. The 250GB is just $249 and the 1TB is down to $469. Update: The 840 is now being phased out, but the streak of great drives continues with the 850. If you really want an ultimate setup, a 2012 Mac mini can handle a 1TB SSD and a 2TB HDD together. With a drive that size, you don't even have to mess with the Fusion setup. As of today, Amazon has the popular 250GB for just $173 and the 1TB version is just $524. ![]() These drives are fast, have good P/E cycles and are very well priced. ![]() I don't know their RMA process yet because we've never had to return one. We've installed 100+ of these drives, and near 300 if you count their predecessor the Samsung 830. This will most likely require a return with the manufacturer.)įinally, the reason you probably started reading: The Samsung 840 EVO SSD is the best option on the market right now. (And I don't mean "brick" in the way people refer to iPhones that just need to be restarted. Nine times out of ten, this will brick your SSD drive. If you do a "Restore" to the drive and then install it into a Mac with dual drives, the OS will see it as a potentially broken Fusion drive the first time you boot up. There is a bug in Mavericks and Disk Utility. Second, a word of caution: If you are going to put an SSD drive into a Mac mini server or any other Mac with dual drives, be sure to clone the data using SuperDuper or CCC. There will be a ton of automated replies and waiting. Even worse than that, the return process for those drives are excruciating. The firmware upgrades require Windows or bootable CDs. I thought I'd write a few of these lessons we've learned in case it helps others:įirst the bad: OCZ and Crucial SSD drives are fast, but they've been less reliable in our experience. Since we've installed so many different drives and brands over the years, we have experience with their longevity and some potential issues. When you've done it enough times and have the right tools, the process takes less than a couple minutes. Of course iFixit has all the Mac mini upgrade tutorials you'd need and the process isn't as horrible as it seems at first. It's always a great upgrade and can make an old mini feel like new again. Over the years, we've installed hundreds of SSD drives into Mac minis. Be sure to follow us on twitter to keep up with the posts and specials. Those are the five most popular articles this year, though the dummy dongle post from last year remains near the top overall. It seems that many are trying to figure out the setup, and the little trick to make L2TP connections work. Setup a VPN server with Mavericks Server: This article is only 4 weeks old, but has become very popular from Google searches. Here are ten workflows we use often around here. Ten Alfred workflows for IT: Alfred is getting more and more popular. The most important lesson from the article.just do something. How to backup your Mac mini server: Another article that is written from many years of first-hand experience. This article breaks down the reasons they stay valuable. The market for used Mac minis: Since we've been buying and selling minis for 9 years, we've seen how they hold their value. The list includes free, open-source and paid software that makes it easy to get going. It's been great.īefore we welcome 2014, we thought we'd look back at the five most popular blog posts from 2013:ĥ0 ways to use your server : This post lists all sorts of ways to use a Mac mini as a server. Can you believe that next year will be our tenth year of hosting Mac minis? It doesn't seem so long ago that we started this niche service of using a Mac mini as a server. This year is winding up and it's been a good year for Macminicolo.
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