To get it all together it is just needed to reverse the order. Remove the HDD from the case and remove the two place holder screws that fixes the disk to the case (steps 17-19).If you have two HDDs mounted you need to extract the logic board to get access to the lower HDD, but this was not necessary for me. I did not need to extract the Logic board out of the case so i skipped steps 13-15, I could wiggle the HD out of its place without doing this.Disconnect the integrated power and SATA connector from the Logic board (step 12).Lift the antenna plate and disconnect the antenna cable (steps 8-11). Remove the Antenna Plate with two T8 Torx that hold the HDD and two T8 Torx that hold the plate itself.Remove the Cowling with one T6 Torx and gently pry it out (steps 6,7).Remove the Fan with the two T6 Torx screws and remove the connector (steps 3-5).The ifixit guide has many good images, in plain text the steps are as follows ((steps X,Y) below refers to the steps in the ifixit guide): In the ifixit guide there were some steps that I could skip, these were steps 13-15, disconnecting the IR sensor and extracting the logic board out of the case (that requires a special Mac Mini Logic Board Removal Tool), I could get the HDD out without these steps. Disk removalĭisk removal is pretty straight forward if you have some small Torx tools. For the hardware part I used the ifixit guide, for mid 2011, the steps are the same for 2012 models, but 2014 models have a new internal design.
#Mac mini 2011 sata connector how to
For the physical switch there were several excellent guides with photos, but there were very few instructions about how to grow the HFS+ partitions of the drive, so I had to test and find a solution and this blog post documents my steps in the hope that it can be useful for someone else. I ran out of HDD space on my 500 GB Mac Mini while backing up my iPhone and 256 GB iPad so I needed more space and did an upgrade.
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