[SOLVED] Which mac mini was the last one with a 2.5 inch disk drive

[Colin D]

I am looking for a mac mini to use at home and I would like to know what model is the newest while still having the 2.5 inch sata drive. I would like to upgrade the existing drive to a reasonably large SSD and seeing as how the new models come with soldered pcie based storage this is obviously impossible. I want the newest model with the 2.5 inch sata drive, Thanks!

 

[AllanGH]

According to my quick look through Google, the Gen4 minis use NVMe drives (not soldered-in), and everything before that uses either mechanical HDAs or SSDs of standard form factor. You should be able to buy any mini and have a drive that is replaceable.