Would it be possible to install 1TB HD in a Mac Mini ?

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Would it be possible to install 1TB HD in a Mac Mini ?

That´s my question:
Can I install 1TB HD in a Mac Mini? I haven´t read anything in Tech Specs
but I would like to do it if it were possible.
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Guillermo

iMac Intel Core 2 Duo 2,16GHz, Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Apr 6, 2009 7:46 AM

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Boece

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Apr 6, 2009 8:11 AM in response to guillermoalvarez

No, it isn't possible to do it with a single drive; the largest 2.5-inch hard drive is 500 Gig.

But it is possible to remove the DVD drive in the newest Mini and replace it with a second 500 Gig hard drive ... for a total of 1 TB of internal storage.

See this article:

http://www.ifixit.com/blog/?p=126

!http://s1.guide-images.ifixit.com/igi/aHatPR2UD52TgXSY.large!

A kit to do this was sold here:

http://www.ifixit.com/Apple-Parts/Mac-mini-1-TB-Upgrade-Kit/IF107-070

Though frankly, just get a 1 or 2 TB firewire-800 external drive and that would be a lot easier.

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Answer 2

Apr 6, 2009 8:17 AM in response to Boece

Thanks Boece;
What I was thinking of is to have all my files in the Mini and then back them up in an external with TM.

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Boece

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Apr 6, 2009 8:22 AM in response to guillermoalvarez

+What I was thinking of is to have all my files in the Mini and then back them up in an external with TM.+

You could do what I do: I cloned my internal to a larger firewire external drive and made that external drive my startup drive. (I used the "free" feature of SuperDuper! to do the cloning.)

I have another external drive attached via USB, which I use for TimeMachine.

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tm311

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Apr 6, 2009 3:07 PM in response to Boece

There are 750GB notebook drives available...seagate makes one that i know of, so there must be more coming soon too.

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