Don’t Buy the Latest Mac Mini If You’re a Storage Junkie
Apple has returned to soldered internal storage in its latest Mac Mini models with M6 and M5 Pro chips, ending the removable flash-storage design used in the 2024 M4 and M4 Pro versions.
A teardown by Expand Mac Mini, a company that sells plug-and-play NAND specifically for the Mini, shows NAND flash chips soldered directly onto the new models' logic boards. The new M6 and M5 Pro models don't have the removable storage module that is found in the M4 Mac Mini. This means buyers of the new models can't replace that module or bump up internal storage through the aftermarket method that emerged for the previous generation.
The M4 Mac Mini did not use standard M.2 SSDs, but its storage sat on a separate Apple-specific module. Apple's repair documentation included instructions to remove that module from the logic board; vendors later sold replacement modules with higher capacities. The...
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