{"id":295,"date":"2012-06-09T16:03:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T21:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/?p=295"},"modified":"2012-06-09T16:03:40","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T21:03:40","slug":"mini-pcie-ssd-in-macmini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/2012\/06\/09\/mini-pcie-ssd-in-macmini\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini-PCIe SSD in MacMini"},"content":{"rendered":"

Been playing with ports\/drives\/SSDs in MacMinis recently and I thought I would attempt something that I hadn’t seen anyone else try.<\/p>\n

Replace the Mini-PCIe Airport card in an Intel MacMini with an SSD. The idea being that this would become the boot device to the 2 mirrored drives internally.<\/p>\n

So I picked up this item off eBay:\u00c2\u00a0SuperTalent 32 GB,Internal (FEM32GFDL) (SSD) Solid State Drive<\/p>\n

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These are primarily meant for a Dell Mini 9, but I hoped the Mac would see it as a regular drive. This MacMini is running 10.6.8 Server.<\/p>\n

Tore MacMini open, installed card, put everything back together and booted the system.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately the drive was not recognized.<\/p>\n

It didn’t show up in Disk Utility. I did look through the device tree with IORegistryExplorer and found what looked like an entry for the card, but apparently there aren’t any drivers for this type of device (essentially a PATA bus\/drive presented via the PCIe interface).<\/p>\n

Next 2 stops down the road of MacMini Mania are the hack of connecting one of the internal SATA ports out through the case to an eSATA device. (Drobo S likely) and trying the Mini PCIe card that adds 2 SATA ports (same external eSATA connection)<\/p>\n

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Been playing with ports\/drives\/SSDs in MacMinis recently and I thought I would attempt something that I hadn’t seen anyone else try. Replace the Mini-PCIe Airport…<\/p>\n

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