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Originally posted by mdedetrich View Post
Yes but thats not entirely true, it is replaceable BUT if you replace it with a larger drive (even an official one taken from another Mac mini) then it will not work because there is an artificial software lock on it (and many people have confirmed the same behavior). The replacement only works if the drive sizes are exactly the same, otherwise you need Mac software they keep secretly to unlock the drives to make it work.
The "secret unlock" doesn't exist afaik. It's just Configurator 2. You may be referring to trying to swap drives without reconfiguring.
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Originally posted by Developer12 View Post
As far as I know is does work just fine with larger sizes, HOWEVER you must use a supported config. If there isn't an equivalent configuration in a shipping version of the product, then there's no entry in the firmware tables. This also means that if the larger version uses one larger drive, you can't try to match it using two 1/2 size drives.
The "secret unlock" doesn't exist afaik. It's just Configurator 2. You may be referring to trying to swap drives without reconfiguring.Last edited by mdedetrich; 10 May 2022, 03:58 AM.
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Originally posted by mdedetrich View Post
https://youtu.be/8IHqntr8FjY?t=660 I am referring to this, and yes they did use configurator but it only worked with the same drive sizes. With a different sized drive the configurator fails with an error and the machine just completely fails to boot.
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Originally posted by Developer12 View Post
Yes, but is that configuration of sizes one that apple ships in an existing SKU?
Originally posted by Developer12 View PostThe thing can't configure for a set of chips that isn't in the firmware table.Last edited by mdedetrich; 11 May 2022, 04:56 AM.
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Originally posted by mdedetrich View Post
Well in order to buy a Mac Mini you have to specify the size of a SSD, its impossible to buy one without an SSD inside (i.e. you have to configure the size).
Originally posted by mdedetrich View PostSure that may be the reason but this is what I was saying earlier which is that its not possible to either upgrade or downgrade the size of the SSD in a Mac Mini (at least as a non Apple employee), you can only replace same size SSD's. Linus does have a point here which is that Apple did design and engineer it this way, I mean the whole thing is built inhouse.
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Originally posted by Developer12 View PostThat has nothing to do with what I asked. To make up some numbers, if apple only ever ships a 512 GB computer with one 512MB card, then it won't work with two 256GB cards. There is no entry in the firmware tables to make that work.
As far as I know you can upgrade to a different size just fine, so long as the combination of modules is one that apple ships in other machines.
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