![]() ![]() You’ll have wires hanging out of the back of your Mac mini and a desk cluttered with drives. Sadly, the Mac mini doesn’t have a card reader slot, so you’ll need to add one, such as this UGreen USB-C SD Card Reader for $13.īut there are admittedly ugly methods. However, there are several ways that you can upgrade your Mac mini with extra storage-at a fraction of the cost you’d have to pay Apple at build time.Īnother way to add inexpensive portable storage is via an SD or microSD card-once the go-to storage format for camera users but also a great format for cheap and portable backup and archive storage. As with the RAM, you must instead configure the amount of flash storage you want in your Mac mini when you purchase it. Like the RAM, Apple has soldered the SSD (solid state drive) storage onto the Mac mini’s logic board, meaning that you can’t remove it and plug in a new one. Upgrading the M2 Mac mini: Adding storage ![]() If you need more than 8GB of standard memory, you’ll have to pay for it at the time of purchase. Depending on the model you buy, there are three options: 16GB, 24GB, and 32G, which cost up to $400. Unfortunately, there’s simply no way of adding more RAM to the Mac mini after you buy it. You must instead configure the amount of memory you want in your Mac mini when you purchase it. This is the logic board of the M2 Mac mini, with one SSD and space for another at the left- but it’s only configurable at the point of purchase.įoundry Upgrading the M2 Mac mini: Adding memoryĪpple integrated the RAM right into the M2 chip package in the Mac mini (2023) and Mac mini (M1, 2020) and so it can’t be upgraded.
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