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  1. Installing Mac Mini Late 2012 Dual Hard Drive Kit, Bottom Cover: шаг 1, изображение 1 из 2 Installing Mac Mini Late 2012 Dual Hard Drive Kit, Bottom Cover: шаг 1, изображение 2 из 2
    • Place your thumbs in the depressions cut into the bottom cover.

    • Rotate the bottom cover counter-clockwise until the white dot painted on the bottom cover is aligned with the ring inscribed on the outer case.

    • You do not need to apply much downward pressure while turning.

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    • Tilt the mini enough to allow the bottom cover to fall away from the outer case.

    • Remove the bottom cover and set it aside.

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    • Remove the two 11.3 mm T6 Torx screws securing the fan to the logic board near the antenna plate.

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    • Lift the ear of the fan nearest the RAM up off the standoff secured to the outer case.

    • Removing the standoff screw is not necessary to remove the fan. You need only raise the fan enough to lift it off the standoff screw.

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    • Lift the fan out of the mini for enough clearance to access its connector.

    • Grab all the wires at once and gently pull straight up to disconnect the fan from the logic board.

    • Do not pry at the socket, or you may rip it from the logic board.

    • Remove the fan.

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    • Remove the single 3.5 mm T6 Torx screw securing the cowling to the heat sink.

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    • Lift the cowling from the end nearest the antenna plate.

    • Rotate the cowling away from the outer case and remove it from the mini.

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    • Remove the following screws securing the antenna plate to the mini:

    • Two 6.6 mm T8 Torx screws

    • Two 5.0 mm T8 Torx or 2.0 mm Hex screws (either screwdriver will work)

    • When putting back together:

    • It can be difficult to get the hard drive seated correctly such that the antenna plate fits in place correctly. If the screw holes don't line up with those on the hard drive, make sure that the two pins that are in the back of the hard drive are properly seated in the holes at the back of the case, above the housing for the second hard drive.

    • The antenna attaches directly to the hard drive (red markers), therefore attaching the antenna can move the hard drive around and loosen the connection of the hard drive cable to the logic board.

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    • Slightly lift the antenna plate from the end closest to the RAM.

    • Carefully pull the antenna plate away from the circular rim of the outer case.

    • Do not remove the antenna plate yet. It is still attached to the AirPort/ Bluetooth board.

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    • Use the tip of a spudger to carefully pry the antenna connector up from its socket on the AirPort/Bluetooth board.

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    • Remove the antenna plate from the mini.

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    • Use the flat end of a spudger to pry the hard drive connector up from its socket on the logic board.

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    • Use the tip of a spudger to lift the IR sensor connector up and out of its socket on the logic board.

    • Make sure to pry up from beneath the wires and not underneath the socket.

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    • Remove the following three screws:

    • One 5.0 mm T8 Torx or 2.0 mm Hex screw (either screwdriver will work)

    • One 16.2 mm T6 Torx screw

    • One 26 mm T6 Torx standoff

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    • To remove the logic board, the two cylindrical rods of the Mac mini Logic Board Removal Tool must be inserted into the holes highlighted in red. Inserting instruments into any logic board holes other than the ones highlighted in red may destroy the logic board.

    • Insert the Mac mini Logic Board Removal Tool into the two holes highlighted in red. Be sure it makes contact with the top side of outer case below the logic board before proceeding.

    • Carefully pull the tool toward the I/O board. The logic board and I/O board assembly should slightly slide out of the outer case.

    • Cease prying when the I/O board is visibly separated from the outer case.

    • Remove the Mac mini Logic Board Removal tool.

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    • Pull the I/O board/logic board assembly out of the outer case enough to access the power connector.

    • Use your fingers to disconnect the DC-In cable from the logic board.

    • Pull the power cable connector toward the front side of the mini.

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    • Carefully slide the logic board assembly out of the mini, minding any cables that may get caught.

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    • Pull the hard drive away from the front edge of the mini and remove it from the outer case.

    • During reassembly, there are two pins on the inside edge of the hard drive that fit into the case. The holes have rubber grommets around them, so it may be difficult to tell when you have seated the hard drive correctly.

    • There are two pairs of holes in the case. Insert the pins into the holes closest to the bottom of the case.

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    • Remove the 7.9 mm T6 Torx screw securing the power supply and hard drive tray to the outer case.

    • During reassembly, ensure the cables that run alongside the hard drive are tucked under the power supply. This will ensure the hard drive is properly seated. In addition, the antenna screw holes will not line up if there are cables in the way.

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    • Pull the silver metal AC-In socket retainer away from the side of the outer case and remove it from the mini.

    • During reassembly, notice that the silver clip hugs either side of the lower beveled edge of the AC connector. When sliding the clip back in it will hit a stop, but not click into place. You will know that you did it correctly because it will not easily move out of position.

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    • Rotate the AC-In connector 90 degrees counter-clockwise.

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    • Slide the power supply out of the mini, minding any cables that may get caught.

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    • Remove the 7.9 mm T6 Torx screw securing the hard drive tray to the outer case.

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    • Remove the hard drive tray from the outer case.

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    • The following steps will guide you through installing a second hard drive in your mini.

    • In the next few steps you will be installing the grommets in the holes located along the brackets boxed in red.

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    • While working from the inner side of the bracket, push the grommet through the hole in the side of the bracket.

    • Be sure the grommet is seated nicely in the bracket as seen in the third picture.

    • Repeat the process for the remaining three grommets on either sides of the brackets.

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    • The bracket with all four grommets installed should look like the bracket shown in this picture.

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    • Bend the ribbon cable along the dotted lines to help the connectors remain seated in their sockets.

    • Bend the ribbon cable 90 degrees at the SSD connector so that it is parallel to the connector.

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    • Use the edge of the SSD connector to put a 90 degree downward bend in the cable along the first large dotted line.

    • Bend the ribbon cable back up 90 degrees along the second large dotted line.

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    • Hold the ribbon cable on either side of the first small dotted line and bend it up 90 degrees.

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    • Bend the ribbon cable down 90 degrees along the second small dotted line.

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    • Attach the cable included in the kit to your second hard drive. In our case, we are using an SSD.

    • If your cable came with a small piece of black tape with rounded corners, you can install it over the hard drive cable connector to secure the connector to its socket on the hard drive. The piece of tape is not required and not installing it will have no adverse effects on your machine's performance.

    • Before attaching the cable to your hard drive make sure it has been properly folded along the dotted white lines. This will help the cable attach and stay in-place.

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    • Use a T6 Torx screwdriver to install two of the set screws on the side of the hard drive closest to the end of the hard drive cable that attaches to the logic board.

    • Tighten the screws until they contact the end of the threaded holes in the side of the hard drive. They are shown correctly installed in the third picture.

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    • In the next two steps, you will install the hard drive into its bracket.

    • When inserting the hard drive, be sure to place it in its bracket cable side up with the SATA connector closest to the bulge in the bracket seen in the third picture.

    • Push the set screws into the grommets in the bracket and install the hard drive up into its bracket as seen in the second picture.

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    • Use a T6 Torx screwdriver to install the remaining two set screws through the grommets and into the side of the hard drive.

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    • Install the second hard drive assembly into the outer case.

    • Be sure that the mounting holes line up with the threaded holes in the outer case as seen in the second picture.

    • When the logic board is installed, simply connect the second hard drive cable to the free socket on the logic board.

    • The second hard drive cable should lay flat between the two hard drives. If the second hard drive cable is placed on top of the first, the antenna plate will not reattach, and you could damage your cable.

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    • When you start up your machine, you'll see both drives are recognized by the mini.

    • Xbench scores show that if you install hard drives in either the top or the bottom position, their speeds will remain the same.

    • To minimize the amount of work necessary when adding an SSD to be used as your primary drive, we recommend installing the SSD like we did in this guide and leaving the stock platter drive in its original bottom position (closest to the antenna plate).

    • After reassembly, boot the mini into Lion Recovery and use disk utility to erase your SSD. Then install Lion on your SSD. After rebooting, go into system preferences>startup disk and choose your SSD as the startup disk.

Заключение

To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.

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In my system the only way to get an SSD drive (OCZ Agility 3 120G) to work was to install it to the first SATA interface and the original HD to the second SATA interface.

I tried first as said in this guide, but the whole system got very unstable, the SSD was basicly unusable with lots of read errors, kernel panics etc...

After switch everything went smoothly. I cloned the original system to the new SSD with Carbon Copy Cloner, selected the SSD to be the startup disk and rebooted, Now the SSD is primary drive (with huge difference in speed, some 340/300 read/write) and the original 1T HD is secondary drive hosting my iTunes, iMovie and iPhoto archives.

marcojohansson - Ответить

The iFixit SATA cable does not work with the OCZ Vertex 4 drive using OS X 10.8. I tried both the "upper" and "lower" ports, neither work. Using the Apple supplied SATA cable, the drive works in both ports. Using the iFixit cable with the Apple supplied HDD drive works. Using the iFixit cable, the OCZ drive is detected using the OCZ Mac boot tools. It's just OS X 10.8 that can not see the drive when using the iFixit cable. I've contacted OCZ support.

brainsik - Ответить

Same for me as for marcojohansson. While my SSD worked in the "empty" bay, I was experiencing frequent system hangs and beach balling. Moving the SSD to the original hard drive position, and the hard drive into the extra bay seems to have solved the problem entirely!

Patrick - Ответить

(Same as Patrick noted above) If you are adding a new SSD to your factory 1TB HD using iFixit's Mac mini HD kit, SWAP the drive positions—so that the SSD is in the original slot connected Apple's SATA cable and the original HD is now in the other bay using iFixit's cable. This issue affects only late-2012 Mac minis that come with a mini-specific build of OS X 10.8.2.

Vin - Ответить

The most difficult part of the process, as mentioned is fitting up the antenna platter again. It has an explanation.

You have to make sure hard drive (primary one, the one on the top), is correctly fitted. You can make sure it is by matching the screws on the hidden part, on the mounting holes of the plastic hard drive chasis. Once this is matched, it fits perfectly and screws are perfectly aligned.

Just keep calm, and be patient, all parts have perfect milimetric match. IT'S NOT DIFFICULT! PERFECT GUIDE!

fsanchez - Ответить

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