Early 2009 HDD Max Size?

ReliantLion · Member Joined: 05 May 2010 Posts: 180 Location: SC

This may have been mentioned before, I tried searching and found nothing, however.

What is the max size of an HDD for the Early 2009 Mac Mini? I've seen upgrade sites offer up to 500Gb, but I think that just might be to keep costs down.

mooblie · Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 12:45 pm Post subject:

I assume you're referring to INTERNAL drives? Then, the limitation is a physical one - 9.5mm THICKNESS of the drive.

This means the current crop of 1TB 2.5" SATA drives are too thick to fit in the mini, at 12.5mm.

I believe the largest 9.5mm drives are currently 750GB, but I'm sure someone here will be along soon to correct/confirm that. (And, of course, that may change in the near future.)
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philiparcario · Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 5:43 pm Post subject:

it is due in 17 days. i am thinking of buying 2 of these

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MEQMH0GBK/

and putting in 4 1tb hdds. I have my last 2009 2x esata hack I think i can make it be the height of 2 2009 mac minis and hold 4tb and a dvd player. so in a 6.5 by 6.5 by 5 inch space. a 2.66ghz cpu 4tb at as 2 raid0 esata connections and a super drive. I will post this build by fri this week. may post it on mac rumors as I don't have a website to post . i wish they had never changed the 2009 shape and 2x esata hack. how would this sound with a nice i7 quad.
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2010 Mm 2.4 C2D oem 320gb hdd 8gb ram
2012Mm base 2.5 with 16gb ram diy fusion drive
2012Mm quad with 8gb ram oem 1tb hdd

promise pegasus r6 3x 3tb + 3x 4tb =21tb hdds
lacie little big disk 2x 512gb ssds
synology 2tb disk station

philiparcario · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 8:21 pm Post subject:

I order the cases and decided to use them with 1 set of 1tb 2.5 inch hdds from samsung they will come soon. right now I have a pair of samsung ssds and a pair of 500gb hitachi's in the two of them
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2010 Mm 2.4 C2D oem 320gb hdd 8gb ram
2012Mm base 2.5 with 16gb ram diy fusion drive
2012Mm quad with 8gb ram oem 1tb hdd

promise pegasus r6 3x 3tb + 3x 4tb =21tb hdds
lacie little big disk 2x 512gb ssds
synology 2tb disk station

philiparcario · Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 11:42 am Post subject:

they came and i have installed them. they are pretty fast. So I now have my mini esata cube mod with 2 owc units one has 2 500gb hitachi's 1 has 2 1tb samungs' 3tb of storage osx.

see link

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1178755
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2010 Mm 2.4 C2D oem 320gb hdd 8gb ram
2012Mm base 2.5 with 16gb ram diy fusion drive
2012Mm quad with 8gb ram oem 1tb hdd

promise pegasus r6 3x 3tb + 3x 4tb =21tb hdds
lacie little big disk 2x 512gb ssds
synology 2tb disk station


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