250GB OWC DIY Upgrade Bundle
Mercury Electra 6G SSD Upgrade Bundle w/ Express Enclosure for Mac mini (2014 - 2018)
Mfr P/N: DIYMM14UE250 OWC SKU: OWCDIYMM14UE250
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Upgrade Your Internal Drive
- Backup and store your data with style and confidence.
- Take your data with you - small enough to keep in a pocket!
- Easily add additional laptop storage with no AC adapter required.
- 3 Year OWC Limited Warranty
Get more storage when you upgrade or replace the existing 2.5" drive in your Mac mini
Examples of how this bus-powered Express bundle can be used in real world situations:
- Relocate your "home folder" to your Express and have your files with you at home, at work or on the road without the need to synchronize your machines.
- Clone your current internal SATA hard drive in your laptop to the new drive. Then install the new, larger drive in your laptop and keep the smaller drive in your Express for additional storage space.
- Keep a copy of your iTunes library on your external drive to play on multiple machines.
- Have the piece of mind of a complete backup plan. Create a bootable clone of your hard drive at regular intervals so if your computer goes down, your productivity doesn't go down with it. Boot to another computer and keep on working!
Yes, You Can Do-it-Yourself
Includes
- (1) OWC Mercury Electra 6G SSD
- (1) OWC Express 2.5" USB 3.0 Drive Enclosure - Black
- (1) USB 3.0 Micro-B to USB 3.0/USB 2.0 Standard-A connector cable
- (1) Toolkit
- (1) Torx T8 driver
- (1) Torx T6 driver
- (1) Nylon Pry Tool (Spudger)
- (1) Logicboard removal tool
- 2014 Mac Mini SSD upgrade kit Installation Manual
- OWC Express Assembly Manual & User Guide
- 3 Year OWC Limited Warranty
Specs
250GB OWC Mercury Electra 6G 2.5-inch 7mm SATA 6.0Gb/s Solid-State Drive
- Use of a 2.5-inch SSD in a 3.5-inch drive bay requires an adapter bracket such as the NewerTech AdaptaDrive.
- Use of any SSD in an external enclosure is dependent on the power available from the enclosure. OWC Mercury Electra 6G and Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSDs are engineered for use in any OWC Enclosure that supports 2.5-inch SSDs.
Total Capacity
- 250GB Useable Capacity
- Total Capacity: 256GB
- 6GB Allocated to real-time data redundancy and error correction
Formatted Capacity
- 233GiB
Drive Format
- Unformatted (Instructions on formatting here)
S.M.A.R.T. Attributes
- Standard attributes supported
Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
- Up to 32 simultaneous commands
RAID Support
- Yes
Form Factor
- 2.5-inch 7mm
Drive Interface
- SATA 6.0 Gb/s
Random 4K Read
- Up to 54,000 IOPS
Random 4K Write
- Up to 81,000 IOPS
Sequential Read (Max)
- Up to 535 MB/s
Sequential Write (Max)
- Up to 465 MB/s
Nonrecoverable Read Errors
- 1 per 1015 bits read
MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)
- 1,500,000 hours
Wear Leveling
- Supported
TRIM Support
- OS Dependent
Error Correction
- Built-in ECC
Security
- ATA Security Feature Command Set And Password Login Support
Mac OS Compatibility
- Yes
PC OS Compatibility
- Yes
Other Requirements
- Requires a Mac, PC, or drive enclosure with an available SATA drive bay. SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) required for best performance.
Idle Mode (Max)
- Up to 0.1 Watts
Dimensions
- Height: 0.7 cm (0.3 in)
- Length: 10.0 cm (4.0 in)
- Width: 7.0 cm (2.7 in)
Weight
- 60.0 g (0.13 lbs)
RoHS Compliant
- Yes
Reach Certification
- Yes
Ambient Temperature
- Operating: 32°F to 158°F (0°C to 70°C)
- Non-Operating: -40°F to 185°F (-40°C to 85°C)
Altitude
- Operating: -304.8 m to 3,048.0 m (-1,000 ft to 10,000 ft)
- Non-Operating: -304.8 m to 12,192.0 m (-1,000 ft to 40,000 ft)
Humidity
- Operating: 5% to 95% non-condensing
Shock
- Operating: 1500 G max at 0.5 ms
- Non-Operating: 1500 G max at 0.5 ms
Idle (Typical)
- 0.0 bels
Seek (Typical)
- 0.0 bels
Applications
- All-purpose SSD
OWC Express USB 3.2 (5Gb/s) Bus-Powered Portable External Storage Enclosure
Drive Bays
- 1 bay supporting: 2.5-inch SATA drives
- Supports drives up to 2.2TB in capacity and up to 9.5mm in size
Storage Interface
- SATA
Device Ports
- (1) USB 3.2 Gen 1 Micro-B Port
Data Transfer Rate (Maximum)
- USB 3.2 Gen 1 : Up to 5Gb/s (or 625MB/s)
- USB 2.0 : Up to 480Mb/s (or 60MB/s)
- USB 1.1 : Up to 12Mb/s (or 1.5MB/s)
Chipset / Controller
- JMicron 20329
MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)
- Varies depending on drive mechanism installed
Contact Start Stops
- Varies depending on drive mechanism installed
Mac OS Compatibility
- Mac OS 8.6
- Mac OS 9.0
- Mac OS 9.1
- Mac OS 9.2
- Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah
- Mac OS X 10.1 Puma
- Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar
- Mac OS X 10.3 Panther
- Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
- Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
- Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
- Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
- Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
- OS X 10.9 Mavericks
- OS X 10.10 Yosemite
- OS X 10.11 El Capitan
- macOS 10.12 Sierra
- macOS 10.13 High Sierra
- macOS 10.14 Mojave
- macOS 10.15 Catalina
- macOS 11.x Big Sur
- macOS 12.x Monterey
- macOS 13.x Ventura
- macOS 14.x Sonoma
- macOS 15.x Sequoia
PC OS Compatibility
- Windows NT 4.0
- Windows 98
- Windows 98 SE
- Windows 2000
- Windows ME
- Windows XP
- Windows XP 64-bit Edition
- Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
- Windows Vista
- Windows 7 32-bit Edition
- Windows 7 64-bit Edition
- Windows 8 32-bit Edition
- Windows 8 64-bit Edition
- Windows 8.1 32-bit Edition
- Windows 8.1 64-bit Edition
- Windows 10 32-bit Edition
- Windows 10 64-bit Edition
- Windows Server 2019
- Windows Server 2022
- Windows 11
Other OS Compatibility
- Linux
External Power Adapter
- No
Power Supply
- Bus-powered
Security Slot
- No
Power/Activity LED
- Yes
Housing Color
- Discreet Black
Housing Material
- ABS plastic
Dimensions
- Height: 1.4 cm (0.6 in)
- Length: 13.0 cm (5.1 in)
- Width: 7.8 cm (3.1 in)
Weight
- 56.0 g (0.12 lbs)
Country of Origin
- China
TAA Compliance
- No
Altitude
- Non-Operating: Varies depending on drive mechanism installed
Noise
- Varies depending on drive mechanism installed
Compatibility & Installation Videos
Mac mini

Videos
Customer Reviews
Included everything I needed to upgrade my older Mac Mini to speedy SSD. Followed the OWC video carefully and with patience. Success.
I would recommend this product to a friend!
- Reviewer:Reviewer21600632
Wow, thank you so much for sharing your experience! We're thrilled to hear that you successfully upgraded your Mac Mini with our OWC 500GB SSD DIY Kit. It’s awesome that you found our video helpful—patience really does pay off! Enjoy the enhanced speed and performance!
Friend had old Mac Mini (2014) with Bad SSD Drive, asked me to replace with something Nice fast and dependable. I picked this DIY KIT - Easy install, perfect OS Load and everything checked out the first time. Not a single hiccup - would buy again. Client (friend) loves it!
I would recommend this product to a friend!
- Reviewer:Reviewer1754651034
Thank you so much for your amazing review! We're thrilled to hear that the DIY kit worked perfectly for your friend's Mac Mini and that the installation was a breeze! It's great to know the performance is up to your standards and that your friend is loving the upgrade. Your positive feedback truly motivates us to keep providing top-notch products. We can't wait to serve you again in the future!
Everything works well as usual.
I would recommend this product to a friend!
- Reviewer:Reviewer936382794
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