Mac mini w/ SSD, adapter???

    If i where to replace the HDD on my mac mini w/ a solid state drive would i need to get a caddy to fit the new SSD? Or is it made for the 2.5 drives since they are so small? -Thanks

The SSD drives I've seen fit a 2.5" format. They use a caddy to fit in a 3.5" drive space, but not for 2.5" drives space.

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    This seems to imply one of a couple things, either something is not properly connected internally, which may have happened months ago when RAM was added and at the time, I had no interest in trying to get digital output from the Mini, course now I do.
    The other thing I suspect is some sort of hardware failure, but would think that the internal speakers would not work if the digital output was completely dead??
    Anyone know whether something could be inadvertently disconnected to prevent the digital output from even being a selection, or does it mean that something has failed requiring some replacement parts/repair?
    Any feedback would be appreciated..
    Thanks Norm

    I would suspect the adapter if it had not worked in my Airport Express.
    Are you saying that options to select Digital I/O will not appear in the sound control panel until the adapter is installed and cable connected to an input of a stereo?
    I would have to find a means of looking closely to see if I can see any light coming from the jack, if I had to guess, there isn't, because I think that I should be able to select the digital I/O in the sound control panel if there were not some other issue.
    So what I think I want to verify is what the Profiler says about audio and confirm that digital I/O is selectable at all times. I am hoping to prevent a repair of some sort, but maybe inevitable if I want it to work.

  • Mac Mini (Late 2014) not recognizing SSD OCZ Vertex 2

    Hello community,
    After days of tests and readings, I turn to you to seek for advice.
    Here is my problem:
    I am trying to upgrade a new Mac Mini (Late 2014 model) from it's original mechanical HDD to a Vertex 2 SSD I have been using for a few years with no problems to report, great product.
    First 1 cloned my HDD onto the Vertex 2 SSD using SuperDuper, all went well.
    I then switched disks and set the SSD in the SATA III slot inside the Mac Mini and reboot... the disk would boot, the recovery system and the disk utility would not see the disk (or it would see it just long enough to try to make a disk verification and then would disappear).
    Here is what I have already tried:
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    - Reformat the disk, in HFS+ with GUID partition table
    - Clean PRAM
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    - Boot from the original HDD connected through a SATA-to-USB adapter - all good, i can boot the system, but i don't see the SSD drive (or only for a moment then as soon as i try some action on it (like a disk verification) it stalls and then disappears)
    - Try to OCZ toolbox to make a security erase and start fresh. I had here a major issue, the OCZ toolbox would not start, it froze after a lot of complaints a "Scanning for hard disk partitions and creating /etc/fstab" and wouldn't move.
    - Dissassembled the Mac Mini, removed the SSD, put it in a Macbook Pro, use OCZ Toolbox on it, this time, it loaded perfectly, identified the disk, i did a firmware update to the latest (1.37) and performed a security erase. All went perfectly. For verificiation I rebooted in recovery mode from the Macbook with the SSD and formatted properly the disk using the Apple Disk Utility (GUIP partition table+ HFS+ partition) and the system neatly identified it as a good host for system install. Then i removed the Vertex 2 SSD from the Macbook pro, put it back in the Mac Mini (reassembled it - god, that's a big pain !) and boot it again in recovery, only to see... nothing, the disk is still not recognized by the system.
    Voilà... now I'm out of idea, It could be some low level hardware incompatibility, or anything else, i read about TRIM and Yosemite sometime not behaving well, about SATA II and SATA III compatibility problems, but so far, nothing clear.
    I therefore welcome in anticipation your knowledge and hope we can figure this out. For the sake of extending the reach, I will also post this on Anandtech and Apple support forums.

    Well, thank you tbirdvet, but the problem was actually an incompatibility at the controller level.
    To quote the OCZ support :
    The issue is incompatibility between the older SandForce 1222 controller used in the Vertex 2 and the newer Intel Haswell platform used in the Late 2014 Mac Mini.  The incompatibility started with the Intel 8 and now 9 series chipsets and spans across all products that used the controller regardless of manufacturer.  It is expected behavior to be able to connect the Vertex 2 then clone to it, but if you try and cold boot to it the detection will fail.  Unfortunately, the Vertex 2 and the controller it utilized are long EOL and never received a firmware update (if that was even possible) to adjust for the release of these new chipsets.
    So I can stop looking around it simply wont boot, ever. Product being End Of Support, no new firmware will ever fix this.
    So I guess, i'll have to look another SSD.

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