Now lets look at the high end models they jump between the integrated Intel HD Graphics 3000 and the dedicated GPU Radeon HD 6630M which has 256 GB or onboard RAM when more GPU processing is needed. So lets start with the low end 2.3 GHz model it has some dedicated VRAM for the integrated graphics, but it also leverages some of your system RAM (shares 288 MB, 384 MB or 512 MB in a 2 GB, 4 GB or 16 GB system respectfully). Whereas Mac mini 2.5 GHz i5 & 2.7 i7 (Mid-2011) which uses a dedicated GPU Radeon HD 6630M. The Mac mini 2011 had two versions, the Mac mini 2.3 GHz i5 (Mid-2011) which uses the integrated Intel HD Graphics 3000 services. I'm not understanding why you are over focused on the drive cable when you are stating the screen is showing disjointed image and a blue screen.
The fan kicked in a lot when I had a normal HD in which is one of the reasons I put an SSD in. I will have time over the weekend and will check out the overheating. I guess if it's not the cable it could be something more serious with the logic board. It mounts easily as a second external drive on my laptop so I'm sure the SSD seems fine. I no longer get the fuzzy blue screen but once it gets beyond the grey Apple Logo and progress bar, all I get is the grey background minus the Apple logo, it just stays grey so my logic says its' not the SSD as it tries to boot and will from a USB carriage in recovery mode. I did try the RAM before, I replaced it with the original RAM and I also replaced the hard drive to a SSD at the same time about a year ago, still no joy, the reason I keep thinking its the cable is because when I put a new one in it seems to work for a short while, once for a day and once for about ten minutes. I'm running the latest OS with max RAM (16 GB). Sorry for my long post.Thanks very much for getting back to me, My system is the 2.7GHz i model. Yes, I get it, it's the "server edition", which "doesn't need fancy graphics", but come on, Apple.:-(Īssuming that my assumptions are correct - and I genuinely hope that I am wrong - the question becomes as to where, o where, can we obtain one of those (proprietary?) SATA III connector/cable/whatever for the 2nd 6Gbps SSD? I'm going to need that 2nd drive in my mini! lol.And the second empty 2.5" slot IS there, seemingly ready to receive SSD #2, but as I understand it, the (likely proprietary) SATA connector/cable/whatever is missing! :-((( This is only true for the NON-server models, but I bought the one with the AMD Radeon HD 6630M discrete graphics chip, because let's face it, the AMD chip w/ GDDR5 VRAM is significantly better than Intel's integrated Sandy Bridge GPU, the HD 3000. However, I can't UN-read that OWC article. After all, you'll be getting around 500-550MB/s for r/w speeds and the random 4K block speeds are equally as impressive. And I'm sure that some of you may just be happy as a clam with "just one" SATA III SSD. In fact, the initial firmware crashed my then-ThinkPad laptop and it took a while to remedy the issue.Īnyway, as we talked about, to get one of these bad boys into the Mac mini is relatively easy, as you're just doing a swap. There were no fancy features such as TRIM or NCQ either. It failed, so I am currently using the reinstall via the internet method. Plug-and-play USB 3.0/2.0 drive dock for 2.5' & 3.5. I have just taken apart a 2.5 i5 Mac mini, removed the 500GB drive and replaced it with an SSD (OCZ Vertex 2.) I created a bootable OS X Lion USB stick from my Macbook Air, and tried to boot the mini from the USB.
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Intel X25-M 80GB and it cost me a hefty $550 and that was considered very cheap at the time. Get everything you need to upgrade your 2011 Mac mini SSD for a total system performance and capacity boost. I've also been an enthusiast when it comes to SSD technology for a while.
There are a number of different ways to install/upgrade/clone, etc. Preview 4 and the installation shouldn't get in the way of this at all. I have been using Lion exclusively since Dev. Incidentally, if anyone has any questions about OS X 10.7 Lion, I think I'll be able to help. It can be a couple of OCZ's or a set of Intel 510 drives. This unit is also used to run the Mac mini Server configuration.
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lol.Īt any rate, regarding the aforementioned article, the trick as to how to get the almost 1GB/s for both read and write speeds is to get two (2) SATA III (6Gbps) solid state drives. This is off-topic, but boy does the extra 4GB make a difference when you're dealing with the OS paging to the 5400rpm stock drive.
I just got my Mac mini yesterday, and today, I faithfully put 8GB of RAM into it. Check this out, everyone! Pretty slick, isn't it? Those are ThunderBolt speeds! And some of the better ones at that!
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