Apple's redesigned Mac Mini M4 ditched the earlier M2 machine's SSD, which was glued to the logic board, as confirmed by teardowns like this one posted on X, which present it has a single detachable SSD module. It's not Apple's first desktop pc to go on this route, as we've seen related modules within the Mac Studio and Mac Professional.
Nonetheless, as talked about by MacRumorsit's most likely much like their storage, with solely the NAND chips on board, and the controller continues to be embedded within the SoC, severely limiting any doable DIY improve or restore choices.
In a second video clip, additionally from Douyin, the Chinese language model of TikTok, the particular person replaces the NAND chips on the board with bigger ones that take it as much as 2TB. In keeping with the one that reposted them, they bought it working, much like what we've seen from Mac hackers like Dosdude who up to date the storage on Mac Studio. It additionally reveals how the Mac Mini's WiFi chip and antenna are mounted instantly on the again of the air consumption on the backside of the machine.
The opposite factor we realized is that the Mac Mini's base module has two 128GB NAND chips as an alternative of a single 256GB one, that means we don't anticipate to see a efficiency bottleneck in comparison with the bottom beforehand launched by the M-series Macs. Apple returned to 2 128GB chips on the MacBook Air M3 launched final April.