M4 Mac mini SSD Has Already Been Modded To A 2TB Upgrade, With New Video Showing Two 1TB NAND Chips Soldered To Ensure Optimum Performance

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Apple has most certainly put its competitors to shame with the pricing of its base M4 Mac mini, as the $599 amount is a figure that the majority of buyers can easily undertake. The only downside to this hardware is that you only get 256GB of storage, which cannot be upgraded unless you are proficient in micro-soldering, which is not the case for a large percentage of Apple’s consumers. In this scenario, you have to be extra responsible when it comes to storage management, but one modder shows how easy it is to go from 256GB to 2TB, assuming you possess the right tools and skillset.

Modder received a bad batch of 1TB NANDs, forcing him to switch to 512GB ones to upgrade the M4 Mac mini storage

To avoid the ‘Apple Tax’ of having to pay a hefty premium to upgrade the storage, YouTuber and expert hardware modder dosdude1 took it upon himself to circumvent past the technology giant’s money-money tactic of soldering the storage to earn a massive markup by learning how to micro-solder NAND flash chips on the logic board. This time, he got his hands on the base M4 Mac mini, which, which we have stated above, features a measly 256GB of storage.

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Fortunately, in a recent teardown video, we learned that the compact machine features a removable SSD module. The module with 256GB of storage sports two 128GB NAND chips to ensure that the M4 Mac mini delivers exceptional read and write performance, which only means that the modder would require two 1TB NAND chips to turn the upgrade into a 2TB one.

While the process was successful, dosdude1 learned that he received a bad batch of storage chips, forcing him to resort to a 1TB upgrade with the help of two 512GB NAND memory. Assuming you had to configure your M4 Mac mini with the same 1TB storage but from Apple’s website, you would have to fork over an additional $400, bringing that total to $999. You