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Hi everyone! Is it possible to fit a 15 mm HDD in Mac Mini Late 2014? Specifically Seagate ST4000LM016 http://www.seagate.com/gb/en/products/la…. Default HDD is 9.5 mm and all the tear downs (incl. videos) I’ve seen do not focus on the free space you have below HDD enough. Thank you!
While Apple did reconfigure the drive frame so the HD bay is larger in the newer Blade SSD/HD models. Apple so far has only used the smaller 9.5 mm 1 TB drive in their drive offerings. With that said, I don’t see any reason why the larger 15 mm drive wouldn’t work here (it will be tight!) If you haven’t bought the system yet I would recommend getting the SSD model and then buy the dual drive kit to add the HD. Getting the SSD later will be harder & more expensive. I’ve also been toying with the idea of upgrading my home mini (2012) which has dual 2 TB drives (media server) to this exact configuration. :-} Let us know how it goes!
