I had that exact machine as my primary mac for several years. I've recently upgraded to a Mac Studio. The 2014 Mac Mini wasn't nearly as bad as people said, but these days it's getting a bit slowish.
I had a torx problem with the 2008 iMac 24'. I wanted to swap the hard drive with a SSD, but the drive bay had these torx screws that where in a place the screwdriver wasn't able to reach because of the stand and the motherboard. Eventually I was able to unscrew them and now I've a rocking iMac running el capitan
I am also the owner of Apple Mac mini 2014. I replaced the hard drive with an ssd (Kingston A400 240GB). It even works very well. The only oddity is the slow loading of macOS Monterey with trim enabled. If you disable the trim function, then the operating system loads quickly. On macOS catalina and previous versions of such problems are not observed. I don't know how to fix this problem.
Hi, nice to meet a fellow ‘14 mac mini owner! That’s strange, I hadn’t experienced that myself, sounds like quite a frustrating issue to have :( Thanks for watching anyway!
@@QuinsTechCorner Hurray, problem solved! It turned out the ssd drive was defective with a wear rate of 90%. After replacing with a new one everything works great.☺☺☺
Man, it's easier to just buy one of those PCIe M2 drive adapters for the 2014 mac mini. You would leave the other drive in for storage and then have two drives total. It would have saved you a ton of grief, at least disassembling the mini that much.
Fun! Really like the videos where problems come up and they are solved. Learn a lot!
Really glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for watching. :)
Yeah snow leopard was never gonna boot on a 2014 Mac even with the recovery partition but worth a moon shot.
YeahI thought I would give it a try 😅
I had that exact machine as my primary mac for several years. I've recently upgraded to a Mac Studio. The 2014 Mac Mini wasn't nearly as bad as people said, but these days it's getting a bit slowish.
Nice!
I think they’re great, and with an SSD upgrade they really do fly! I’d have one as my main even today. :-)
I had a torx problem with the 2008 iMac 24'. I wanted to swap the hard drive with a SSD, but the drive bay had these torx screws that where in a place the screwdriver wasn't able to reach because of the stand and the motherboard. Eventually I was able to unscrew them and now I've a rocking iMac running el capitan
Haha yeah that sounds frustrating! I hate the things and their many variants… The iMac sounds good. :)
I am also the owner of Apple Mac mini 2014. I replaced the hard drive with an ssd (Kingston A400 240GB). It even works very well. The only oddity is the slow loading of macOS Monterey with trim enabled. If you disable the trim function, then the operating system loads quickly. On macOS catalina and previous versions of such problems are not observed. I don't know how to fix this problem.
Hi, nice to meet a fellow ‘14 mac mini owner! That’s strange, I hadn’t experienced that myself, sounds like quite a frustrating issue to have :(
Thanks for watching anyway!
@@QuinsTechCorner Hurray, problem solved! It turned out the ssd drive was defective with a wear rate of 90%. After replacing with a new one everything works great.☺☺☺
@@n_shchuchkin That's great!!
Glad you've solved it. :)
Man, it's easier to just buy one of those PCIe M2 drive adapters for the 2014 mac mini. You would leave the other drive in for storage and then have two drives total. It would have saved you a ton of grief, at least disassembling the mini that much.
Money!