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Hey all, I just got myself a Crucial M500 240GB SSD drive for my mid-2011 Mac Mini. I intend to replace the standard hard drive with this one. Here are a couple of thigs that are still unclear to me: - what will happen when I first boot my Mini after I replaced the HDD with the SSD?

As of now, this drive is in stock state, I guess not even formatted and empty. - how will I be able to make a fresh install of Mavericks? I made a bootable Mavericks install usb stick, but haven't found out a way yet to boot on it (I have a wireless Apple keyboard, and holding the cmd key when booting won't pop any disk manager) Any further details on how I should proceed are appreciated, thanks! Unless you really want a clean install of OSX, I would (and have myself done twice) get a USB enclosure or a USB to SATA adapter. And clone, using Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper, to the SSD installed in the enclosure. You can then verify all is working well before setting off on the task of installing in the Mini as it is somewhat of a task to do.

I would still use the same approach even if I wanted a clean install, except instead of cloning, just install to the external drive. BTW, before doing either approach, make sure to partition the drive as GUID (under options in the partition pane of Disk Utility). In addition, once the drive is installed in the Mini, be sure to go to Start Up Disk in Preferences and actually select it as the startup disk. Without doing this, the Mini will take much longer to boot as there is no defined startup and it will spend time trying to find a bootable volume. So to sum up, her's what I need to do: Safe bet Step 1:install Mavericks to the SSD thanks to a SATA -> USB adaptor Step 2: try to boot on the SSD as an external hard drive to make sure everything works fine Step 3: install the SSD into the Mac Mini Step 4: powering up the Mac Mini, everything should be OK, correct? Warrior approach Step 1: install the SSD into the Mac Mini Step 2: pray for the Mac Mini to boot into recovery mode, then power it up Step 3a: the Mac Mini did made it into the recovery mode, then install Maverick through the Internet Recovery Step 3b: the Mac Mini did NOT mad eit into the recovery mode, try to boot on the Mavericks install USB stick, and install the OS to the SSD from there.

Is all of that correct, am I missing anything? Your Safe bet steps are what I did when I installed an SSD in an early-2011 MBP. I plugged in my external enclosure (containing the blank SSD) to my MBP and booted to my internal HDD. From my OS X Desktop, I opened Disk Utility and formated the SSD. Then, I went to the App Store and downloaded/installed OS X Mavericks to my SSD. After the install completed and rebooted to my SSD and at the setup screen, I powered off the MBP. Then I installed the SSD into the MBP, power it up while holding the Option/Alt key and selected the SSD to boot into.

Last, I completed setup and pointed to my SSD as my Startup Disk. Your Warrior approach steps will work also if you use your USB thumb drive that you created for OS X Mavericks. Your Step 2 would be to plug in your USB thumb drive, power up your Mac Mini and via your Wireless KB, press/hold the Option/Alt key until you get the startup manager and you can select your thumb drive. Then you can run Disk Utility to format your SSD and Reinstall OS X from the OS X Utilities menu. As lllaass stated, a USB KB would definitely work.

The Apple Wireless keyboard can be a little tricky and my experience has been you have to be patient, press the keys after the boot chime and keep them pressed until you see the screen you want. If you try to use Internet Recovery in your Warrior step, since you have a mid-2011 Mac Mini, you might get OS X Lion or Mountain Lion as your OS X to install. This depends on what was pre-installed when you purchased your MM. Hey all, I'm in the process of my safe bet right now. Installed Mavericks on the SSD via an external enclosure. Booted on it, and everything works fine. Interestingly things are a little snappier, and iPhoto albums now obviously load instantly.