Jan 25, 2014  Hey all, I just got myself a Crucial M500 240GB SSD drive for my mid-2011 Mac Mini. I intend to replace the standard hard drive with this one. Willhom 821-1501-A Second Hard Drive Upgrade Kit SSD Replacement for Mac Mini A1347 (Mid 2011 - Late 2012). Hard drive or solid state drive to your Mac mini with. Sep 25, 2017  I have a mid-2011 iMac and it runs great mainly due to 32GB RAM.running Linux and Windows VMs (from external Thunderbolt HDD). The overall sore spot performance-wise is the internal (boot) HDD (3TB).

If they do, you'll see the message in the yellow bar, and you won't be able to use the Important Updates list or set dates and times, like so: • Select any other options, and remember your computer has to be on at the time you selected to install new updates. Tips: • If you view the items in Control Panel by their icons instead of categories, you choose System > Windows Update > Change Settings. • You'll receive updates for Office, Windows, and other products like Zune. Your IT department might set automatic updates for you.

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Once in place, I tightened the 6.6mm screws more, which raised the SSD to the proper level. After insuring that the screws all lined up, I installed and tightened the logic board, then the other antenna plate screws. What finally helped me was to check things one at a time. To check the tongue-and-groove fit, I installed the antenna plate by itself, with the hard drive removed. I used a spudger to pry open the groove on the antenna plate, since I had closed it a bit by forcing things. After the antenna plate was going in by itself, I focussed on the hard drive.

When seating the bottom RAM chip you may have to apply a little extra side force to get it to seat properly. I put in the new RAM and just got a beeping sound upon starting. I then put the old RAM back in and got the same result. Here is the solution I found on the Apple discussion board. 'Take a small flat head screwdriver and after you put the memory in slot 0, put the screwdriver between the top of the mac mini and the memory then turn the screwdriver a little to exert pressure on the memory into the slot. Do it on both sides of the memory.'

David Hodson's answer is half-correct. It *is* just a standard HDD swap, however: 1) A guide to installing Leopard or Snow Leopard won't help because the 2011 Mac Mini won't run any OS X older than Lion. You *could* use another computer to install Lion on the SSD before fitting it, or wait for and buy the USB-stick version of Lion. However 2) The good news is you should be able to just fit the SSD blank. I believe the Mini's 'Internet Recovery' will allow you to connect to Apple and download and install Lion directly. All you need is your WiFi key or Ethernet cable:). Yes, any SSD will work.

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