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Ever hear of a grounding strap?

And what if you do not have the "Other Mac"??

Does Apple Intelligence work on the upgraded SSD?

Just ordered mine, thanks!

Man, you weren't really prepared. No grounding, no padding. All this on a device whose warranty will be voided if you do anything to it, and you're not doing anything to protect the Mac from damage. Thanks for the video though.

Sucker seems useless 😂

Original SSD is 10-layer PCB , this 3rd party Chinese early product is only 4-layer maybe 10-layer or 4-layer doesn't matter or it does? However . rumor says 10-layer PCB will be in the market soon

This is obviously a good thing. The downside is you must have a second mac to be able to restore . I wish the original drive could be cloned onto the new storage in an external drive, then fitted.

300 box is still too expensive for 2 tb for me

Wouldn't that have been a little easier to do if you weren't so close to the dancefloor..?

Disk is wrse, but who care ;-) my disk is w: 4GB/s r: 5GB/s ... s 5GB file size .... but what i say, who care, more capacity is more important

Where is the company registered and where it the part made? Will this affect the Apple warranty?

Im a little lost, so you must have a MacBook in order to do this?

Congrats on the upgrade. Shame, they don't give you an enclosure for the OEM SSD to continue to use it.

I love Apple products. i don't mind the entry price being high and what they give but Storage and RAM upgrades shouldn't be that costly. doubling the memory should be like $50 MAX. They charge $200.

Is that stable?

Wish they made a 4TB version.

What's all this 'we' stuff? There appears to be only one person in this video.

until apple next update and restrict the non oem drive like they did with the ios devices

Gotta love that porn-beat background music! 😉

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Just disassemble the whole thing which was designed intentionally to be difficult. Try to figure out how to put it back together. Then live your warranty time in fear of a fault. Having said that, I didn't realize I was signing up for a HOT external NVMe enclosure which never cools down even when in sleep.

The clicking background music is very disturbing and made me nervous

The supplier site looks like a rudimentary shopify site with no information about developer or source of product. I'd probably wait until a reputable supplier like OWC comes out with a product, or look for a dock.

This is giving me ideas for my 2023 M2 256GB. Now I want to do the same. Thanks

no explanation of dfu or what do with other mac that connects to the min?

$300 USD! you almost buy another mac mini for that price.

doe the internet/network recovery no longer work?

They don't make it easy do they..

Thanks so much for this video! You have saved me $500. Screw apple for charging ridiculous price for upgrading to 2TB!

Regarding the computer you did the DFU restore from, does it matter if it is a newer M series vs and older intel?

It'll be interesting to see if these upgrades prove to be reliable over time.

Good luck with Apple Pay Apple Intelligence. Future macos updates also at risk after this. Better to do this probably 5 yrs from now or more.

Great Information! Thanks for this Video. I feel like I could & would do this by myself - other than the "other method" by shredding the the 256 GB storage down and glue the new 2 TB Chip back on. That would have been way over my pay grade... But now, since 3rd party storage models are available I in for the race... 🙂 Again: Thanks & Thumbs up. Subscription to your channel is executed...

I would rather just get the upgraded mini that has 24gb unified memory and 1tb. I think it’s like $1000. Which is what you’d have into this setup, an no warranty concerns. That or buy 2 minis and daisy-chain them together.

Dear God, if you care, don't let them brick our units due to "unauthorized SSD" being installed.

Probably best to do this after the warranty expires.

Can apple send out an update to make this drive fail once installed?

Can I import it to South Africa

The cymbals and the drumming in the background made me tune out almost immediately. You do not need that. I’ll go somewhere else for the information. Thank you.

Nice to finally see some 3rd party SSDs hitting the market. Do you know where is it shipped from?

As showed in your video, you do not need to download the .ipsw file. Just click restore and the app will download the latest version of macOS.

I‘m absolutely a newbie to the Mac ecosystem - so sorry for the question: After Watching your Video there is One thing Pointer Ort to me -> to do the ssd upgrade for the Mac mini i‘ll still Need a other/second Apple Mac - machine to connect for the the Mac mini and restore in DFU Mode??! So without a other/second Mac System i‘m Not being able to do it (in my Place there is Only an iPhone 16 Max pro and an iPad Air available)?

Glad I found this channel! My Mac Pro is an early 2008, so I imagine I’ll need a new machine at some point.

Cool! But, if an average Joe, like me, opens my Mac mini, doesn't that void the warranty? [Long in the past, upgrades in the Mac O/S would check for Non-Apple components ... then brick computer ;-( ]

Just ordered the 2TB. At least I can use iTunes for the IPSW restore. I've been wanting to do this for a while and want to do it before Apple finds a way to stop us from doing it.

I have seen Kingsener preform this and it’s pretty cool. After watching your video and seeing the performance speeds via Blackmagic test I still think (IMO) that going with an external is the way to go. The way thunderbolt 4 & 5 work now this is a lot of work for $350 internal when you can rock an external for $250 2TB NVME and save $100 and keep your storage when you trade in and not void warranty. Pretty cool but not sure if 2800 MBPS VS 3200 MBPS = 400MBPS speed difference is worth the extra $100 and time. Thank you for your content because it’s still cool. Keep up the great content. At least you get to keep your thunderbolt port.

thanks for sharing>!

🎉 Congratulations - looking forward until the warranty terminates 😊

At 1:42 there is a small black piece of plastic that shows up near the Orange tool at the bottom of the video. Was this one of the plastic clips that broke during opening?