When I first got it I couldn’t believe how hot the exiting air was.
#SATA TO MINI SATA MAC#
The Mac Mini is a terrible design in cooling. Its no small consideration if you’ve paid for 3 years of Apple Care.Īfter looking at the Mini, I can’t imagine having the hard drive in there helps any heat issues. Of course then you couldn’t run it with the top on but once again, you wouldn’t destroy your warranty as you could replace the original heatsink and hard drive if you needed to bring it in for service. The footprint looks small enough and one of the mounting brackets could fit if both mounting holes are filed a tiny bit to make them slightly longer. And hey, maybe it will run a little cooler.Īnd has anyone tried replacing the CPU heatsink with a chipset heatsink off a typical PC? Thermaltake 05 might work OK. Its kind of a shame to gouge something if its not really necessary. I wonder if the power requirements of a 3.5″ are very different from a 2.5″? And if so, would it relieve the power supply somewhat if you removed the slot loading drive and ran the DVD drive externally? After all, most people don’t use the DVD drive very often.Īs for the exiting of the Sata cable out of the Mini: If you don’t want to hack a hole in your Mini, why not just Leave the back not completely closed allowing for about 1/16″ gap for the Sata cable to pass through? It should look the same from the front. Then you could make it sleep and do other stuff I guess. With both of these you’ll have to grind down the male plug a bit.īut is it possible to power the 3.5″ drive from the power receptacle of the Mini that originally powered the 2.5″? Its to the left of the data plug of course.
#SATA TO MINI SATA PLUS#
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Gadgets, Hack, Mac Mini, OS X Post navigationĬ sells a Type L Male to Female Sata cable (red) that should work perfectly for $5 plus a little shipping. If you can’t get the 2nd adapter slot bracket, just get the cable and directly attach that to the adapter board and route it to the outside of the case.Īs for the case modification: I’ve made a few photos to illustrate the process. Part# 65115 – SATA2ADT-A3 (order Reichelt – AK 668)ġx internal SATA to external SATA (not eSATA!) adapter slot bracket (non board-based)ġx SATA to eSATA cable 1m (order Reichelt – AK SATA 0702) You have been warned.ġx internal SATA to external SATA (not eSATA!) adapter slot bracket (board-based) I won’t take any responsibility for any damage. Thanks!Īh, one more thing if you want to try it yourself: As usual… warranty is void!ĭon’t blame me, if you screw things up – even if you’ve followed the method described here precisely. I hope you like it and please leave me a comment afterwards.
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The pictures are from several takes, so they might differ at some stage.Īnyways, just click on the first image below to start the slide show – navigate by clicking the left or right side of the photo.
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I’ve added quite a few comments to the images.Īnd before you start complaining about the bad picture quality, I’ve shot the whole procedure with my non-HD DV cam, sorry.
#SATA TO MINI SATA HOW TO#
So, finally as promised, here is my short picture walkthrough on how to do the Mac Mini external SATA hack.