Well, I picked up a hard-drive today to install within my Mac Mini. The idea of upgrading the Mac Mini is a pain in the ass, because of how small the system is. But in all reality, it’s really not that much different than upgrading a regular old desktop.

Once you’re able to pry the case apart, it’s a breeze — just unscrew a few sets of screws, remove the wireless antenna, and you’re golden.

As of right now, I’m about 5 minutes away from a clean install of OSX on a new hard-drive. I’m currently shopping for an external enclosure in hopes of restoring the contents of the original hard-drive.

We’ll see how this all works out — hopefully I didn’t lose too much data, but at least my entire music collection was on another external drive.

Update: All enclosures for 2.5″ sata drives are extremely ugly — why can’t they make good looking cases for these things?

Tags: Apple, hard-drive, Mac Mini, upgrades

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