Compatible with MacBook Pro 16 M1 Inch 2019/MacBook Pro 15 Inch 2013-2015/MacBook Pro 15 2016-2019/Surface Book 2/Surface Laptop 3/14 Inch Laptops. The laptop weighs 1.83kg and is 15.5mm thick. I’m not going to elaborate on it.The 15-inch MacBook Pro's Retina display is bright (500 nits) and delivers 220ppi resolution. There are tons of tutorials on Youtube already. Detaching the Mac Mini takes alot of patience.

There you go, now that you have a clone MacOS to the new SSD. It might take a while to restore depending on the data size you have on the Mac Mini.

the restore function here basically means cloning. Under Disk Utility, go to “Restore” and HIGHLIGHT the new SSD drive and then SELECT restore from the main hard drive. For those on Windows Keyboard, press “Windows Key + ALT + R” to enter recovery mode as soon as you hear the chime. Once the formatting is done, restart the Mac Mini and press the “Command + R” (Mac Keyboard) to enter recovery mode as soon as you hear the boot up chime. To find out the actual format of the main standard disk drive, highlight the main hard drive and the info will pop up on the right side of the page Mine was AFPS format from the standard disk. Erase the new SSD to the same format as the main standard disk that comes with the Mac. Do take note, the formatting part here, would be the “Erase” button on Disk Utility. Then, under Mac’s Disk Utility, highlight the new USB external SSD enclosure and perform a format. Basically, you first have to install the Samsung SSD to the hard drive enclosure, to use it as a USB external hard drive. I’ve also purchase a FLUJO USB 3.0 External SSD Hard Drive Enclosure for easy cloning of the existing HDD via the Mac’s built-in app Disk Utility. I bought the SSD during a Courts Singapore sales, at around SGD 81.00 for a 256GB storage size. It makes a whole lot of difference to run SSD on it.

I would recommend to upgrade the Mac Mini if you have a standard disk when you first purchase it. A product of 8 years running and running like new with the Samsung 860 EVO SSD. Finally got the chance to revive a slow Mac Mini of late 2012 and I’m very happy with the end result.

Ssd for mac mini late 2012