

Apples upcoming iPhone 15 Pro models may spark a 'replacement demand.

You can always expand storage via an external drive. I'm hoping to name the SSD drive the same as the failed boot drive in order to preserve any original paths to my restored files, so my plan is this. While the RAM in the previous-gen Mac mini from 2014 was. My plan, after recovering files, will be to reformat the HDD drive from scratch and see if it can become useful again. I can't easily uninstall the current HDD. I am adding a new, internal PCIE drive which will become the boot drive on which I'll do a clean install. I do not have a Time Machine backup (this was a media server, mostly), but there are some files on it I will want to recover from it if possible. I can boot into Recovery and Safe modes, but if I try a normal boot, it fails 70% through and powers down.

Installing SSD boot drive in Mac Mini, while keeping old HDD and transferring drive name/path to SSD I currently have a 2014 Mac Mini with the 1TB HDD which is failing.
