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How much does it cost to upgrade an M1 Mac Mini to 2TB?

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How much do I have to fork out to upgrade my M1 Mac Mini to 2TB storage?

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If you have an M1 Mac Mini, upgrading its storage to 2TB is fairly inexpensive, especially if you buy blank NAND chips which are about $100. Of course, this is without consideration for the required tools and devices. Apple charges around $800 for that same upgrade which is too much if you are able to handle it on your own and have the needed tools.
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Apple: "How dare you upgrade you own storage instead of buying our overpriced storage upgrade!!! REEEEEEEE!!!"
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Would be very cool to see an M2 Pro Mac mini upgraded from 512GB all the way up to 8TB or something.
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I honestly adore the Mac Mini. I recently got a Mac Mini off EBay for like $25, and when I discovered it was a 2011 model I was pretty excited since I expected it to be a 2010! Only downside is that I can’t use the Catalina patcher on it… but even so, I managed to get the HDD upgrade kits to boost its storage to 2.5 TB and gave it 16GB of Ram! Now it’s my media center!
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I'd like to see you do this with an 8TB SSD… now that would be superb!
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I would love to see an M2 mini upgraded to 2TB!
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I bought a Crucial 4TB NVMe P3 SSD ($190), put it in an Orico enclosure, and hooked it up to my M1 Mac Studio and it's very nice. It doesn't have SOC speeds but it's plenty fast enough for me, is only $50/TB and it's really nice.
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Would be interesting to see a base model M2 (8/256) upgraded to say 16 or 24 and 1 or 2 TB etc.

Mainly because I would be interested to see how the single to double NAND process goes:
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Obviously it would be cool to see if this works on an M2 as well.  Though your upgrade path was successful on the M1 you already know that the money savings comes along with a high risk of things that can go wrong.  Apple surely will say you are on your own, but I cannot imagine a day where you would be going to the Genius Bar.  Best of luck on the M2 upgrade as well.
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can you check the speed of the new 2tb NAND compared to the original mac mini m1 speed. very cool and worthwhile upgrade. luckily it works. ive seen iBoff RCC saying that the SSD controller for m1 macs are embedded in the m1 SOC that's why there's a compatibility issue.
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For normal humans: the mac mini has a thunderbolt port. An external 2 or 4 TB SSD with a thunderbolt controller isn't cheap - and it's only half the speed of the internal SSD - but you just plug it in, and it's still insanely fast, more than fast enough to run software and do things like video editing. Highly recommended.
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Luke Miani: Apple your really pissing me off right now look we just want to upgrade a Mac mini from a quarter TB to 2TB is that too much to ask?
Apple: YES IT IS, NO UPGRADES ALLOWED, you'll take what we give you and you'll like it.
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I just made a 2TB Thunderbolt 3 external drive for my M1. It is much faster than the 256GB internal drive and there was no danger. The thunderbolt case was around $130 and the 2 TB MV M2 drive was about the same price.
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$800 for the upgrade though apple. $800 for the specialty tools to do it, yourself. “Clicks 2tb drop-down, and orders.”
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Super awesome! Thank you. BTW if you want to eliminate the flicker of your lighting, shoot in 30fps, 1/60th of a second. :)
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