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WHICH SSD FOR MAC MINI LATE 2012 INSTALL
WHICH SSD FOR MAC MINI LATE 2012 UPGRADE
WHICH SSD FOR MAC MINI LATE 2012 PRO

It also has a five-year warranty and a longer expected lifespan than most hard drives if you’re willing to pay more, the 850 PRO version has a ten-year warranty that eclipses all but the most expensive enterprise-class desktop hard disks.

The Samsung 850 EVO I installed in my iMac is 5 times faster than the 1TB hard disk it replaced and has no moving parts, so it’s tiny, silent and cooler-running. Today, excellent quality SSDs start at $60 (120GB), climbing to $120 (250GB), $231 (500GB) and $420 (1TB) - still not as cheap as traditional drives, but better. SSDs are faster, more reliable, and a lot more affordable.

WHICH SSD FOR MAC MINI LATE 2012 UPGRADE

It’s hard to believe, but back in 2008, Apple offered a 64GB solid state drive upgrade to the original MacBook Air for a whopping $1,300 premium over the laptop’s normal price. At that time, a consumer 1TB drive cost around $4,000, and Apple wasn’t even attempting to sell one.Ī lot has changed even over the past year.

WHICH SSD FOR MAC MINI LATE 2012 INSTALL

So below, I’ll show you some great SSD options that you can install yourself, ask a tech-savvy friend/repair shop to handle for you, or choose as external solutions. Similarly excited readers have pointed out that older MacBooks and certain other Macs are also easy to upgrade… but at least one Mac (surprise: the Mac mini) is not. Last week, buoyed by (finally!) reasonable SSD prices and a desire to try a DIY project, I walked through the steps to replace a prior-generation iMac’s hard drive with an SSD. Now I’m seeing five times the hard drive speeds, apps are loading instantly, and my iMac feels as responsive as the MacBooks and iPads that beat it to the SSD game. Even with 400GB of available space, OS X Yosemite’s constant hard drive accessing had brought my quad-core, 3.4GHz Core i7 machine to its knees. After installing a solid state drive (SSD) with no moving parts, the drone of my iMac’s hard drive and fans has given way to such an absence of sound that I only hear the high-pitched squeal of my office lights. Just don't let my eyesight get any worse, or the psoriasis rheumatoid arthritis with gout in my hands or my memory worsens.My Mac is now silent. I am not complaining, but I do not see the theoretical Thunderbolt 1 being much faster than the firewire 800, and in actual fact it is a fair bit slower.īut hey I'm retired and over 80 and I've got the time.

2.5" HDD Bufallo via Thunderbolt 1: 9.43GB took 11.54 minutes.

WD 3.5: HDD Black in Voyager dock via FW 800: 9.32GB took 9.25 minutes.

I am assuming it is due to the lower spinning speed of the Buffalo Drive.įor example, here are two carbon copy cloner clones and the amount of data and the time taken: Of two drives I used with carbon copy cloner, one 2.5" Buffalo HDD is connected via its Thunderbolt 1 connection to the same connection on the iMac, and the other CCC backup Drive is a bare WD Black 3.5" in a Voyager Q dock connected via its firewire 800 port to the same port on the iMac.Īccording to specs and theoretical speeds, for the Firewire connection, I should be getting close to 800 Mb/s for Firewire 800 and as my Thunderbolt 1 has a maximum speed of 10 Gb/s, (10 Gbps = 1250 MB/s) which is a pretty good speed increase, at least according to the books, but in actual practice a very seldom see such a speed increase. One thing closely related to this topic is what I have discovered with my own 2011 27in iMac, and that one thing that fascinates me is why and how the speed of two of my backup drives work.