Sintech M.2 NGFF NVMe SSD Card for Upgrade Mac Mini Late 2014 Year A1347 MEG Series(Only for late 2014 Year,not fit Other year)

I got a used Mac Mini and wanted to speed up the OS so I got this and and NVME drive. It took a 15 minutes to install and drastically improved the performance of MacOS. You need to double check and make sure you have the proper Mac Mini model that can accept this card/NVME drive. Also, remember that you’ll still be limited by the SATA speed bus, but you’ll max out with a quality NVME drive used as your OS drive (~600MB/s) but you won’t get the full NVME speeds so don’t break the bank getting a high performance NVME drive.

This did exactly what it claimed to do. It did it perfectly. It was reasonably priced. It got to me sooner than I expected. What could be better.

I utilized this to install a Crucial P2 NVMe SSD in a 2014 Mac Mini. Fit was excellent and the connector mated up without looseness to the logic board. The adhesive on the card held it firmly in place. It is nice to have the screw set and screwdriver included as unless your Mini has an existing PCIe type drive there is no screw to hold the drive to the logic board.

My installation was a bit more complicated as I had a 1TB fusion drive with bad HDD. I had to buy a tool kit and gut the entire Mac Mini and remove both drives from the drive bay. In fact the built in SSD portion had to be sliced out with a razor blade. The new M.2 holder fit perfectly on top of the empty drive bay. I added the new 500 GB M.2 drive and closed up the machine. From there you can boot to a screen called Internet Recovery, which operates independently of any hard drive. Internet Recovery allowed me to format the new M.2 drive and install Big Sur OS.

worked first time on mac-mini late 2014. was a lot easier installing this than changing the sata.

Used it for Mac mini 2014 with Samsung evo 970 ssd. And worked

The late 2014 Mac Mini, which sells used for a price between 300-450US$ is a good buy, can run BigSur, and it has a small port that can snap with this adapter to give you an extra storage space.The process is simple & this product is of good quality.

Worked perfectly

This is the simplest and cheapest straightforward way to upgrade your SSD in your 2014 mini... this stuff worked like it was a factory part and yet it enables you to use PC NVMe drives... its amazing!

I happened to come across this while looking at SSD drives for my late 2014 model Mac-mini. Like most others, I found the computer had become nearly useless due to always having the spinning color wheel. I really had a hard time bringing myself to purchase a new Mac-mini since it would have cost >$1k. I really dont need much out of this desktop so thought maybe replacing the 1TB HDD with an SSD drive could help. The other problem though is I didnt want to replace it with something smaller so was looking at >=1TB SSD drives. Those arent terribly expensive, but still seemed a gamble since I wasnt sure that was really going to fix it.