Bill, I have not done any 2014s, but I have done a boatload of 2010-2012s.
Some basic tips: . Make sure you have all the tools you will need. Order a kit from iFixit if you don’t have it all. . Give yourself plenty of room on a flat level surface that has something on it to keep stuff from rolling. I used a (very) large mouse-pad-like surface. A table cloth or newspaper also works. . As you pull screws and stuff from the box lay them out in a line in the order you removed them, so you can reverse the process easily, . Watch the videos and look at iFixit’s high-res photos to be sure of what you are doing. . Make sure you know which way the connecters are to be removed. Some are straight up and others pull sideways. Know which way before you start. . Take deep breaths and relax. The 2014 may have slightly more screws and steps, but otherwise it is pretty much exactly like the earlier unibody ones. Yes, a coat hanger will work, but if you order your drive from MacSales, they will include a kit, unless you tell them not to. Jonathan > On Nov 27, 2017, at 4:21 PM, Bill Rising <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Nov 27, 2017, at 11:31, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Bill, >> >> I just went through the steps in #1 below, on my older Mini’s 2009 and 2011 >> it’s not ear this complicated, > > Yeah... I'd done a replacement on a mac mini in the past, and it was painful. > The 2014 makes the repair look more like a root canal. Still, sitting and > waiting for the creeeeeeeping hard drive is like water dripping on my > forehead. > >> in fact I’ve done all of them without using the U shaped tool to move the >> motherboard…it’s just not easy…in all cases I remove the fan, and then >> remove the drive below the fan…it’s really a bear to get out without moving >> everything forward but I didn’t have to take everything out of the case as >> in the instructions…possibly the 2014 Mini is different. > > The 2014 must be completely disassembled to get to the hard drive (i.e. the > one part that has a chance of breaking in a normal lifetime). It's not made > for maintenance. > >> The one mistake I made, the heat wrap around the old drive with the heat >> sync cable that goes onto the motherboard I didn’t put back on the SSD, and >> that made the fans run wide open so I had to take back out and wrap the SSD >> just to add the connection for the fans… > > Well, I'm gonna try to follow the instructions really carefully and not botch > anything. From experience, I'll for sure forget one thing, so I just hope it > is not in the middle of the repair. -- Jonathan Fletcher [email protected] Kentuckiana FileMaker Developers Group Next Meeting: 11/28/17 _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
