optical drive) bay.Ĭould it simply be a matter of using a genuine Apple SATA cable for the second bay? Or are there other restrictions that are impossible to get around? I wonder, too, if the problems encountered by other users could be avoided by formatting the drive prior to installation. I've also been told that Samsung SSDs aren't terribly reliable or stable in MBP's 'second' (i.e. Will this work? Reading comments on iFixit, it appears many people have had issues installing SSDs into the second drive bay. So, what I would like to do now is install two 4tb Samsung Evo SSDs inside the Mac mini and store my media internally and use the 10tb external as a backup drive. I've been chasing Thunderbolt speed for about a year now, but other than the Lacie Rugged Thunderbolt 2 drive, I haven't been able to find any other true Thunderbolt external drives-and none of them are the capacity that I need anyway.
My current setup is the factory installed 500gb HDD with my media stored on a 10tb WD external drive. I use my late 2012 Mac mini as my Plex media server.
