From HDD drive upgrade to SSD

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From HDD drive upgrade to SSD

Dear Friends

Greetings and well wishes with a good health...!

Need a help please!

My Mac mini HDD is slowing down. I wish to replace to SSD, before doing do so, I wish to confirm and verify that my Mac mini can support any brand of the SSD. However below SanDisk SSD is my prefer choice.

MAC MIni Mid 2011.

Processor 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5

Memory 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

Graphics Intel HD Graphics 3000 512 MB

Serial Number C0********JD0

Software OS X 10.9.5 (13F1096)

My choice of SSD to be purchased.

SanDisk Ultra® II Solid State Drives (SSD)

Selected: 240GB

Specifications

Dimensions: 2.75 x 3.96 x 0.28 in. (69.85mm x 100.5mm x 7.0 mm)

Shock: Resistant up to 1500G

Vibration: Resistant 5 gRMS, 10-2000 HZ / 4.9 gRMS, 7-800 HZ)

Temperature: 32ºF to 158ºF (0ºC to 70 ºC)

Interface: SATA Revision 3.0 (6 Gb/s)

Endurance: MTBF: 1.75 million hours**

Warranty**: United States: 3-year limited warranty. All other regions: 3-year warranty

Mac mini, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), null

Posted on Aug 4, 2015 10:28 PM

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Answer 1

lllaass

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Aug 5, 2015 12:47 AM in response to RanjitMaan

It should be fine. I have not seen any posts with problems with that SSD.

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Answer 2

Aug 5, 2015 3:44 AM in response to RanjitMaan

Should not be any problem. I upgraded my system HDD in my 2011 Mini Server with a

240 GB Kingston SSD Now v300 (got a really good deal on it) and has been working

fine.

I would suggest that you get a USB to SATA adapter or a USB enclosure and clone

your current system to the SSD externally first and test to make sure all is good

before ripping apart the Mini to install it. Note that with the external connection,

it will work slow but a very suggested test.

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Answer 3

RanjitMaan Author

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Aug 10, 2015 8:24 AM in response to lllaass

Much appreciated and my heartfell thanks.

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