OWC 240GB Aura N2 NVMe SSD Add-on Solution Compatible with HDD only Mac mini (Late 2014)

Perfect

Great product perfectly described and running flawlessly! I recommend this to anyone. I've had it in my computer for a month now and will get another if needed!

I have a 2014 Mac mini with 4GB RAM. This is the bottom of the line Mac mini from 2014. It was unbelievably slow. It felt like using a computer from the nineties, as I would wait a minute or more for apps to open or web pages to load. Then I saw this easy to install solid state drive upgrade kit for the 2014 Mac mini that just snaps into place and secures with a few very small screws. It was less than $100 and I read reviews about how adding an SSD made the the 2014 Mac mini so much faster than it was with its standard spinning disc hard drive. But I was uncertain because my bottom of the line Mac mini only had 4GB RAM.Installation took less than 30 minutes. The hardest part was just making a bootable usb drive to load the Mac OS onto the new SSD drive. Thankfully there are so many instructional videos on YouTube about how to do this.So after less installing the drive, I loaded the Mac OS onto the new SSD and started it up. It was like a different computer. Faster. Much, much faster. “Holy Cow!” fast compared to what it was before the installation. I’m not a heavy computer user. The most challenging software I use is Evernote in which I add some simple sketches using a very cheap graphics tablet. So for me this upgrade is all I really needed in a computer. I watch YouTube videos, some Netflix and work on files on Evernote and some numbers spreadsheets all at the same time without any waiting anymore. This SSD kit is awesome!!!

When I wanted to work on my MacBook Pro (New batteries, larger Hard drive and speaker replacement), I thought I had the correct tools but I did not. These were perfect for the jobs I was doing. My Mac is older but better now thanks to these tools.

I purchased this to replace the SSD on my wife’s MacBook Pro, which had failed completely. And it works perfectly.I also purchased a small toolkit (iFixit Moray) that had the necessary pentalobe and tiny torx bits, since I didn’t have those.The manufacturer has installation videos at macsales.com, which walk you through the process. The hardest part is keeping track of the 8 tiny screws on the case and the one holding the hard drive in place. Fortunately, the toolkit had a handy lid/tray to hold the screws, and magnetic tips to hold onto them.I doubt it took me more than 15 minutes to do this, and I was moving slowly and showing my wife what I was doing at each step.

Apple's SSDs are. not standard., so you can't just by an NVMe SSD and expect it to work. This NVMe SSD was design to work perfectly with my particular Macbook.

I watch this insulation it was really very easy and surprisingly.

My SSD in my mid 2014 Macbook Pro developed a problem. I inserted the new SSD and put the old SSD into the enclosure. Once I restarted my Macbook Pro, the procedure to reinstall the OS and my old files went without issue. When the laptop started, it asked for the internet connection. Once it had that, it installed the OS. Once that was finished, I connected the enclosure with my old SSD and was able to download my applications and data. I was up and running within a few short hours.