
It turned out to be easier that I expected.īefore the hard disk upgrade you will need to create a bootable USB stick with macOS. I am running Mojave 10.14.6 on my Mac mini, so the instructions below are based on that version of macOS.Īt the time of writing this blog post macOS Mojave can still be downloaded in the Apple App Store. I didn't look forward to this as almost the whole Mac mini had to be disassembled, but finally took the step to do this.

Next step was to upgrade the hard drive to SSD. I took some pictures during this upgrade to share in this blog post.Ī while back I upgraded my system to 16GB, but was still experiencing hard disk reads and writes that slowed down the system. It was time to upgrade it with an SSD drive. My Mac Mini from late 2012 started to get slow due to constant reads and writes of the mechanical hard disk.
