Upgrading the M4 Mac Mini SSD NANDs to 2TB!

[@bozmanx]

Good to see you back and making videos again. Quick question, apart from the initial heat you used to help remove the underfill did you need to pre heat the board in any way before heating the chip for removal?

[@pavelsynek2049]

Interesting job, and very nice video production! Cheers

[@MatthiasPeterson]

Impressive! And quite a relaxing video.

[@docdailey]

Would love to see someone do something like this to upgrade the CPU/ram on a Mac studio. Harder to source the SOC

[@techbuddyau]

@@docdailey As I understand it, the SOC is programmed with the memory configuration so it's not been possible to upgrade the ram, even if you could physically replace it. Happy to be corrected by someone but I believe this is what dosdude1 mentioned before.

[@docdailey]

@ yes. Replace the cpu. The ram is integrated.

[@docdailey]

@ yes. Replace the cpu. The ram is integrated with it. That is what I mean.

[@iWadey]

@@docdailey what would you be replacing it with though?

[@docdailey]

@ one with more ram. Where would you get it is the problem.

[@MatthiasStiller]

Did programmed the new NAND Chips before installing it? If so, could you show how to do it? 🤔

[@techbuddyau]

The NANDs arrive blank. The DFU restore handles the rest. I only have the programmer to check that the NANDs I order work before I perform any soldering work.

[@MatthiasStiller]

@ Thanks for the answer. 👍

[@MatthiasStiller]

@@techbuddyau Do you know if blank nands needed for the Macbook Air M1? I bought a used Macbook Air M1 256GB for upgrading it to 2TB. I bought all the stuff that is needed for. I soldered the blank NANDs on the board. When i soldered it on the board the for first time i didn't align it correctly and tried to start it. The Processor got hot and the NANDs too. So i removed the NANDs and soldered this time correctly. I could get the Macbook into DFU Mode. I tried to restore it. But Apple Configurator gave me an Error Code 2006 saying could not start in recovery mode. Maybe its possible that broke the board in some way.

[@BusterEriksson]

where did you get your nand chips?

[@techbuddyau]

@@BusterEriksson AliExpress. K6B2 nands. Cost you can find when you search AliExpress.

[@WinrichNaujoks]

Everybody is showing videos of how to do this, but nobody tells you how to get the NAND chips and how much they cost.

[@techbuddyau]

@@WinrichNaujoks AliExpress. K6B2 nands. Cost you can find when you search AliExpress.

[@Tigerex966]

Ram is so much more important

[@techbuddyau]

Depends on your use case.

[@Tigerex966]

All use cases ram is first then storage

[@a.sabbir3023]

Please Ripley Which different for (SDSFGKLKH) or (K6B2) Nand sell.?

[@12Capricorn30]

Very nice. You are my hero! lol

[@puremetal2417]

Does it only work with Apple based silicon for the dfu. So older MacBook Pros intel based won’t work?

[@techbuddyau]

@@puremetal2417 as far as I thought, Intel based mac's aren't able to DFU restore a silicon based Mac. I could be wrong.

[@3ijnweu3oq3]

@@techbuddyau Yes they can, you can restore apple silicon macs with intel machine that have usb c ports. I do it all the time, you use apple configuratior, but you don't have access to the tool on intel macs that automatically puts the device in dfu so you will have to do it manually

[@techbuddyau]

@3ijnweu3oq3 Interesting, I just looked this up again and it seems you're correct. The information I had at first read said otherwise. Thanks for commenting!

[@odaily]

The third-party just luanced the SSD kit for the M4 Mac Mini base model. Here you go: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGXCfpZmaKt2lZIsi=TT6mozJL6fNOGOxq

[@techbuddyau]

@@odaily Interesting! I'm sure there will be many others to follow.

[@GeekShhh]

Just FYI......3rd party solutions are out.

[@Tigerex966]

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