Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

(done) {Many photos} My mini is waiting. Amazon has preorder for Crucial 960GB SSD

hfg said:
Excellent series of posts with great pictures! :cool:

Thanks for the time and effort posting this procedure ... it should become a sticky here.




-howard
Click to expand...

You are welcome. There have been a few good threads on doing the second drive. I wanted to try to show as much as possible on the 'correct' way to do it. Getting the complete kit from OWC is pretty much the most important thing to not be cheap about. the 4 grommets give a rock steady ssd mount. I also like my double screw trick(sounds like a porn movie scene) to move the hdd in place.
 
Good thread but one thing: that is the INCORRECT way to get the fan or any Vertical Insertion connector unplugged.

You would ALWAYS use the flat end of a black stick and go under the wires as close as possible to the connector and pull straight up.

By trying to get under the connector, you could actually damage the connector on the logic board itself.

Your friendly ACMT.
 
rw3 said:
Good thread but one thing: that is the INCORRECT way to get the fan or any Vertical Insertion connector unplugged.

You would ALWAYS use the flat end of a black stick and go under the wires as close as possible to the connector and pull straight up.

By trying to get under the connector, you could actually damage the connector on the logic board itself.

Your friendly ACMT.
Click to expand...

I KIND of did that as you can not pop that connector up sliding the flat blade under it. Being gentle is important. I get on a corner right at the left side of the connector under the wires and twist the spudger a bit. I then slide the spudger under the connector plug very gently and pry it. It is very easy to break. This is a real don't force item when doing a full tear down.

On the 2010 mini the temp sensors where really easy to damage.

To
" Roasting pig"

OT: I had sweet Italian sausages and pork chops tonight with string beans and raw carrots on the side.

A dish of Gelato for desert.

On topic : My eyes are great for far and great for middle due to double cataract surgery.
One eye is 20-15 the second eye is 20-70

One eye was at 50 and the second eye at 52. At 56 I need reading glasses and tons of light to do this work.

I also have this;

http://www.kenssewingcenter.com/mul...m_medium=product_search&utm_source=bingsimple


Plus the good wiha tools. But I do 100 Pc's and 50 macs a year. Along with a few Amps and speakers.
 
Hey Phillip,
I have a pretty similar setup that I am trying to put together, minus the fusion drive.
I just got the 960GB M500 and want to install it.

One thing I guess I am forgetting - where/how/when do I migrate my old Harddrive contents to this drive? I want this to be my primary drive. I use a time capsule for time machine backups.

Do I need an external enclosure to connect my old drive, boot from it, and transfer contents? Can I plug in my time capsule via usb and restore from there? I tried to just put the new drive in (in the first accessible harddrive spot) and turn the computer on, and I just see a grey screen with a flashing folder, and my wireless keyboard and mouse are not connected...

Thanks for your help.
 
How is the performance holding up?

I am considering buying the Crucial 960GB M500 to replace the 256GB M4 in my early 2009 iMac and was curious how your setup is doing?

With such a large SSD, I would imagine that you see little of the beach ball? I see it on occasion with my fusion setup (2TB Seagate + 256GB M4). As an example, I was working with iMovie today and I could hear the hard drive spin up and watch the beach ball while it was displaying the movie clips.

The 960GB is fairly inexpensive and may give my iMac a couple of more years (assuming the larger SSD makes a difference)

Jeff
 
icemantx said:
I am considering buying the Crucial 960GB M500 to replace the 256GB M4 in my early 2009 iMac and was curious how your setup is doing?

With such a large SSD, I would imagine that you see little of the beach ball? I see it on occasion with my fusion setup (2TB Seagate + 256GB M4). As an example, I was working with iMovie today and I could hear the hard drive spin up and watch the beach ball while it was displaying the movie clips.

The 960GB is fairly inexpensive and may give my iMac a couple of more years (assuming the larger SSD makes a difference)

Jeff
Click to expand...

funny you should ask. today I had an issue after an update the update required a restart. I had a frozen beachball after the restart. never had a frozen beach ball. so I powered the mini down un plugged a usb3 hub with a few usb 3 hdds and unplugged an eye tv usb2 stick.

booted again all worked fine. I then attached all the gear and no worries. my guess is that the issue is that of usb3 + fusion = a conflict during a more complex boot that involved a restart.

I did 2 restarts since then with all gear attached and no issues. I am pretty happy with this ssd which can be found for under 600 if you look around.
 
Do you notice the HDD being used often and how much space total have you used on the fusion setup? In my experience iPhoto and pretty much all apps launch in 1 or 2 bounces but iPhoto then spins for 29-30 seconds on start up and shut down and I hear the HDD start up each time. So I know my iPhoto library is on the HDD which does not help. My fusion drive takes up about 1.1TB of the 2.2TB total spave. ~850GB are movies and the rest apps and photos.

Can you tell if your iPhoto library feels like it is on the HDD or SSD? I would think if I use iPhoto often and have a large SSD it should keep the library on the SSD. However it makes me wonder of manually managing data may be better than fusion? I know I don't need iTunes on the SSD so I would not want those movie files cluttering the SSD.

Fusion is cool, but it is like black magic.

Jeff
 
philipma1957 said:
laptop hdds will become ssds handwriting is on the wall. but the big hdds with 3tb 4tb 5tb should stick around for a few years.





if they go down to 400 as normal and 320 as a deal the 2.5 inch hdd will die in 2 years. the best 2.5 inch laptop is a 1tb 7200 rpm by hgst on sale it is 80 bucks.

so 80 vs 570 the hdd stays alive .

but 80 vs 320 the hdd would be in trouble.

the 2.5 inch laptop needs a size boost maybe a 1.5tb that is 9.5mm and only 80 bucks.
Click to expand...

Sata III 128 Gb Toshiba at Amazon presently $ 89.90. I love the Toshiba's, none of them have missed a beat. And with the 20 - 25 Gb that I use no bigger is necessary and at that price why bother with a HDD?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back