does the Mac mini m2 have an internal ssd, flash storage or hdd it says that you can check under storage and the Mac hd icon and it tells you what drive it has, it says nothing.
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kpeecee wrote:
does the Mac mini m2 have an internal ssd, flash storage or hdd it says that you can check under storage and the Mac hd icon and it tells you what drive it has, it says nothing.
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It has a SSD. The SSD is not implemented as a socketed M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD, but as a combination of flash chips soldered to the motherboard, and a SSD controller that is part of the M2 or M2 Pro chip.
On a M2 Mac which has only 256 GB of flash space, all of the SSD storage will be on a single flash chip.
If you run System Information (Option– > System Information…) and look under the Storage section, the entries for volumes on the internal drive may have a Physical Drive Device Name of "APPLE SSD (something or other)" and a Physical Drive Protocol of "Apple Fabric".
kpeecee wrote:
does the Mac mini m2 have an internal ssd, flash storage or hdd it says that you can check under storage and the Mac hd icon and it tells you what drive it has, it says nothing.
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It has a SSD. The SSD is not implemented as a socketed M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD, but as a combination of flash chips soldered to the motherboard, and a SSD controller that is part of the M2 or M2 Pro chip.
On a M2 Mac which has only 256 GB of flash space, all of the SSD storage will be on a single flash chip.
If you run System Information (Option– > System Information…) and look under the Storage section, the entries for volumes on the internal drive may have a Physical Drive Device Name of "APPLE SSD (something or other)" and a Physical Drive Protocol of "Apple Fabric".
It uses NAND flash.
I’m not aware of any Apple silicon computer that has an internal HDD as either standard or optional from Apple.
Apple SSD has had some different implementations (SSD on SATA, NVMe, NAND, etc), but all of it is based on different sorts of flash storage.
A technical overview of different sorts of SSDs: https://www.kingston.com/en/ssd/what-is-nvme-ssd-technology
Mac Studio storage details (yeah, not mini, but mini also uses NAND storage): https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/03/explaining-the-mac-studios-removable-ssds-and-why-you-cant-just-swap-them-out/
HDDs were used with the lower-end Mac Intel 21.5” and 27” models either directly or within Fusion, but that (glacially slow) HDD storage hasn’t carried over to Apple silicon.
Yes, i eventually found the info in system report, it is indeed an SSD, why they couldnt put SSD where they said you would find it, underneath the Macintosh HD icon, i dont know.
it has ssd do not believe apple make macs with old fashion magnetic storage hard drives anymore
MrHoffman wrote:
I’m not aware of any Apple silicon computer that has an internal HDD as either standard or optional from Apple.
The M2 Ultra Mac Pro desktop mini-tower is the only Apple Silicon Mac that might be capable of accepting an internal mechanical hard drive – if someone were to mount one on the back of a PCIe expansion card.
No other Apple Silicon Mac has any place inside where you could put a mechanical hard drive.
Servant of Cats wrote:
MrHoffman wrote:
I’m not aware of any Apple silicon computer that has an internal HDD as either standard or optional from Apple.
The M2 Ultra Mac Pro desktop mini-tower is the only Apple Silicon Mac that might be capable of accepting an internal mechanical hard drive – if someone were to mount one on the back of a PCIe expansion card.
No other Apple Silicon Mac has any place inside where you could put a mechanical hard drive.
I’d added the “from Apple” to that sentence for a reason.
Didn’t want to get onto this path.
But since we’re now on this path, Mac Pro also has internal room, has PCIe slots, has SATA connections, etc., and has (third-party) options for this including the Promise Pegasus J2i.
There have been other odd beasts created of course, and this wouldn’t be the first computer I’ve met with structural gaffer’s tape or structural stick-back tape.
For other HDD parts, Samsung had Spinpoint 1.8” HDDs for a while, and I’ve worked with smaller (as well as with HDDs which each needed 6U or 8U and the full width of 19” rack, IIRC), and Apple was using some tiny HDDs on old iPods.
Third-party or fully-custom HDD applications within Apple silicon systems are fairly rare and specialized, of course.
But these are not options available from Apple, AFAIK.
Somebody that has J2i or ilk installed usually knows about that, too.
not sure how many computers have the old type of hd in this day 'n' age
you can suggest they add it more clearly using their feedback channel
close to 100% sure apple never made a m(x) cpu laptop with the old type of hd
Perhaps this Wiki article will help you with the "SoC" or "system on chip" concept behind all Macs with M-series designators.
Thanks Rudegar for your help.
I have submitted a request in Feedback.
cheers
How can I check what kind of internal does My Mac mini M2 have?
