Wow.Glad to read that! A couple of questions:
I'm trying to read my Crucial's mSATA temps but HWmonitor doesn't report anything. Any thoughts ?
( NUC runs ML OSX)
You mentioned sleep issues due to the fusion drive. Did you solve them?
Cheers
F
Hi,
I am on Mavericks (in fact reg'd as a developer for pre-release) and as up to date as possible, so I don't know about using ML.
I realise there may appear to be issues involved in doing the upgrade to Mavericks, but once you are there I think that you will probably have a better overall experience, and then if you upgrade to latest FakeSMC and HWMonitor you certainly should be able to see the mSATA temps. I'd advise doing a clone of your current working system to USB, make that bootable and then do your upgrade - that way you can always go back to your working system.
As for sleep with the fusion drive, I still need to do some troubleshooting as it will always wake from power button, but seems to have issue at the moment waking from USB. I have put that issue to one side though, as it is tolerable and I will come back to it once I have finished my hardware mods.
But yes, I am REALLY pleased with the temp.s now running purely passive. There are things you need to be very careful with in construction as taking some time over the thermal interfaces really pays dividends. I'll take pic.s of the final mSATA cooling arrangements a little later, to illustrate more clearly what I have done, but I suspect that if I had taken the time to really polish the CPU contact plates and prepare the junctions to a higher standard I would be running even cooler across all components.
Another thing I have noticed is that the unit as a whole tends to act as a very slow reacting heat store. So once you do a lot of hard stress testing the case will be at around 40C itself and then this means that it is slow to drop the temp.s of all internal components. In contrast if you only ever do tasks that are low stress (with some occasional peaks of stress) then the entire system stays very cool for extremely long periods. As an illustration, the ambient sensor now is saying 31C, the CPU is saying 31C and the mSATA is saying 31C - stress it and you will find all temp.s rise to around 40C. So it seems to me the Mac Mini case is, as a lump of aluminium, just about the right size to be able to cope passively at a good temp with these components.