OWC offers DIY kits for Mac minis, laptops

Other World Computing (best known on the net as OWC) has released more than 50 storage upgrade kits for laptops and the Mac mini.

The kits start at $65.99 and include everything for do-it-yourself replacements including:

A new drive ranging from 250GB to 1TB.
An enclosure for your old drive so you can use it as a spare external drive.
A tool kit

The basic OWC upgrade kit utilizes USB 2.0, while the Mercury kits (starting at $87.99 USD, pictured) are Firewire 400/800 and/or USB 2.0 capable.

[Via Macsimum News]

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John.B

At 12mm max drive height, I believe that 640 GB is the largest drive you'll get into the mini's internal disk tray. I've personallly only tried 9.5mm drives (my mins all have 500 GB 7200 rpm Hitachi drives).

April 01 2010 at 2:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Moose

OK, see, that's what I thought... and OWC's website doesn't mention the mini specifically when searching those drives. It only lists them out as being compatible with the MacBook or MacBook Pro. If anyone from OWC is reading this, trust me, that is a very confusing search return to get every time you search for Mac mini replacement drives.

April 01 2010 at 2:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Moose

1TB kit for the Mac mini? I didn't know that existed! Would be perfect for the mini HTPC but for the low rpm. :(

April 01 2010 at 1:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

nickux

I ordered this exact thing about a month ago, very happy with it, gave OWC some feedback via email telling them how great it was. It's just good to have it all in one package and it was very reasonably priced.

April 01 2010 at 12:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

David Emery

I got one of these last year for my old MacBook Pro, and I've been very happy. The enclosure is up to OWC's usual quality.

But my MB Pro seems to have a problem with its FW800 port. I've blown 3 different enclosures (this one and a pair of OWC 3.5" enclosures, all of which OWC has replaced under warranty.) The common thread in all these is plugging them into the FW800 port on my laptop. Right now the 2.5" enclosure works fine, so if there's a problem it seems to be with hot-swapping.

April 01 2010 at 12:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply