You could spend $40-50 and get a SATA SSD. Boot up time takes 3 seconds compared to 3 to 4 minutes and your machine will feel like a 10 times more powerful machine. Spinning hard drives are a thing of the past as boot drives. You can get a usb enclosure for like 5 dollars on Amazon to put your old Hard drive in to access the files you may need from the old drive. Those older Mac minis are built like tanks but spinning hard drives are not a good idea in a work environment the slightest bump can corrupt them forever when you least expect it and if you have something important on them it's game over. A Sata SSD has no moving parts and can withstand being reasonably dropped and shakes or sudden jarring won't effect it at all. But yea Those old Mac minis are tanks and last forever I have a 2010, 2012, & a 2014 that is still going and I just picked up the newest Apple Silicon Mac mini last month. So I'm defiantly a Mac mini fan as well!! Cheers
I have a few of these and most of them are SSD boot. This one however is a special oldie version that has irreplaceable software installed and for whatever reason I didn't have a suitable SSD available to migrate to at the time. It's a special purpose machine and not my primary system which is a pair of 2012 mini's with SSD's.
@@BustedJunkStudio There is a great app for cloning or making exact duplicates of drives called Carbon Copy Cloner. It’s great if you want an exact duplicate of a drive for Macs. I have moved many Spinning hard drives to SSDs and older Mac machines to new ones with it and it supports Macs as old as older PowerPC Macs like the G3, G4, & G5 era Macintoshes. So if you ever notice one of your drives with important data is acting weird or making noises you can make a backup in case of emergency with carbon copy cloner. It’s been a great solution for my system backups in my recording studio for archiving Logic Pro & Pro Tools sessions as well. Great video by the way I think I was subscriber 100 so congrats on the 100 mark on TH-cam! Cheers!
Don't think you can put a HDD from one to another it'll notice the version and drivers mismatch and end up just looking at the files but not actually run the os. Be a bit like transplanting your brain to another body the connections wouldn't be exactly right you'd probably move your left foot when you tried to move your right thumb. It should work for a same 2005 Mac mini same hardware same configuration.
Sure you can, it works fine, the OS and all the files are contained on the SATA drive. Any computer that supports the operating system on the SATA drive can run it. Technically it don't even need to be a Mac, it could be a Hackintosh.
@@BustedJunkStudio yes but sometimes don't know specifically for Mac but on a Windows machine you move a HDD from one computer to another that has a different graphics card you get slight issues then system can end up trying to check it's Mac address where it will just unregister itself. Putting into a exact clone where all the hardware is the exact same spec shouldn't have issues. But one is much newer than the other which should mean the hardware changed significantly
@@Babihrse Windows or generic PC's are another story all together. You can have hosts of compatibility problems there because they are all Frankensteins composed of third party parts all claiming to adhere to a spec but in reality, sometimes they don't. Apple's ecosystem is more tightly controlled, eliminating virtually all incompatibility issues, which is nice I guess. At any data center in the world the task of swapping drives is a normal everyday thing, this is nothing new.
You could spend $40-50 and get a SATA SSD. Boot up time takes 3 seconds compared to 3 to 4 minutes and your machine will feel like a 10 times more powerful machine. Spinning hard drives are a thing of the past as boot drives. You can get a usb enclosure for like 5 dollars on Amazon to put your old Hard drive in to access the files you may need from the old drive. Those older Mac minis are built like tanks but spinning hard drives are not a good idea in a work environment the slightest bump can corrupt them forever when you least expect it and if you have something important on them it's game over. A Sata SSD has no moving parts and can withstand being reasonably dropped and shakes or sudden jarring won't effect it at all. But yea Those old Mac minis are tanks and last forever I have a 2010, 2012, & a 2014 that is still going and I just picked up the newest Apple Silicon Mac mini last month. So I'm defiantly a Mac mini fan as well!! Cheers
I have a few of these and most of them are SSD boot. This one however is a special oldie version that has irreplaceable software installed and for whatever reason I didn't have a suitable SSD available to migrate to at the time. It's a special purpose machine and not my primary system which is a pair of 2012 mini's with SSD's.
@@BustedJunkStudio There is a great app for cloning or making exact duplicates of drives called Carbon Copy Cloner. It’s great if you want an exact duplicate of a drive for Macs. I have moved many Spinning hard drives to SSDs and older Mac machines to new ones with it and it supports Macs as old as older PowerPC Macs like the G3, G4, & G5 era Macintoshes. So if you ever notice one of your drives with important data is acting weird or making noises you can make a backup in case of emergency with carbon copy cloner. It’s been a great solution for my system backups in my recording studio for archiving Logic Pro & Pro Tools sessions as well. Great video by the way I think I was subscriber 100 so congrats on the 100 mark on TH-cam! Cheers!
Don't think you can put a HDD from one to another it'll notice the version and drivers mismatch and end up just looking at the files but not actually run the os. Be a bit like transplanting your brain to another body the connections wouldn't be exactly right you'd probably move your left foot when you tried to move your right thumb.
It should work for a same 2005 Mac mini same hardware same configuration.
I'm amazed it worked
Sure you can, it works fine, the OS and all the files are contained on the SATA drive. Any computer that supports the operating system on the SATA drive can run it. Technically it don't even need to be a Mac, it could be a Hackintosh.
@@BustedJunkStudio yes but sometimes don't know specifically for Mac but on a Windows machine you move a HDD from one computer to another that has a different graphics card you get slight issues then system can end up trying to check it's Mac address where it will just unregister itself. Putting into a exact clone where all the hardware is the exact same spec shouldn't have issues. But one is much newer than the other which should mean the hardware changed significantly
@@Babihrse Windows or generic PC's are another story all together. You can have hosts of compatibility problems there because they are all Frankensteins composed of third party parts all claiming to adhere to a spec but in reality, sometimes they don't. Apple's ecosystem is more tightly controlled, eliminating virtually all incompatibility issues, which is nice I guess. At any data center in the world the task of swapping drives is a normal everyday thing, this is nothing new.