Jun 07, 2018 The last few years of the Mac OS clearly required a SSD, from at least OS X 10.9. I have a mid-2010 Mac mini, which is a much slower and older 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo, still running 10.9.5. I also have 16GB RAM in mine, but I replaced the optical drive with a 750GB caviar black and the primary drive has been replaced by a basic 120GB Kingston SSDNow V300. Mac Mini Late 2012 SSD Installation: Replace your Mac Mini Late 2012's hard drive for more storage space and an increase in speed. SSD Upgrade Kit.
Thinking of improving my system. Now running a 1TB fusion drive with 128GB ssd (stock from apple). Option A: boot from external 1TB or 500GB usb3 ssd. Option B: replace 128GB sdd with 500GB or 1TB ssd pcie from OWC Tested with a loaned 500GB ssd USB3, cloned the system disk and boot from the sdd.
Does not seems to see too much of performance improvement. Either the fusion drive is giving very good performance of my loaned ssd is the 3G version (older) and not the faster 6G drive. How much of an improvement can I expect from option B (which cost at least 100USD more expensive for each 500GB ssd and have the risk/trouble of opening up the imac for the installation). I am not 100% sure If I should wait a bit more before my upgrade. Any info/advise that can help me decide will be welcome.
Kkx wrote: Thinking of improving my system. Now running a 1TB fusion drive with 128GB ssd (stock from apple).
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Option A: boot from external 1TB or 500GB usb3 ssd. Option B: replace 128GB sdd with 500GB or 1TB ssd pcie from OWC Tested with a loaned 500GB ssd USB3, cloned the system disk and boot from the sdd. Does not seems to see too much of performance improvement. Either the fusion drive is giving very good performance of my loaned ssd is the 3G version (older) and not the faster 6G drive. How much of an improvement can I expect from option B (which cost at least 100USD more expensive for each 500GB ssd and have the risk/trouble of opening up the imac for the installation).
I am not 100% sure If I should wait a bit more before my upgrade. Any info/advise that can help me decide will be welcome. My late 2013 27' woke up significantly when I went from the OEM internal non-fusion HDD to an external Thunderbolt SSD boot drive. I suspect that doing the same thing with USB3 would provide some, but not as much, improvement, as this is probably one of the installations that actually makes good use of the Thunderbolt.