- #MAC MINI LATE 2012 HARD DRIVE UPGRADE UPDATE#
- #MAC MINI LATE 2012 HARD DRIVE UPGRADE UPGRADE#
- #MAC MINI LATE 2012 HARD DRIVE UPGRADE MAC#
It's actually quite snappy running Catalina! You should be able to find the appropriate RAM modules (2x8GB) and an internal SATA SSD for under $150 total, maybe under $100 if you're lucky. To the OP ( I personally have a 2012 mini, maxed out with 16 GB of RAM, and with an internal 500 GB SSD. The max transfer speed of 3.0 is more than ten times that of 2.0 (5 Mbps vs. The 2012 mini came with USB 3.0 ports, but if the HDD in question is really old, it's conceivable that it has only a USB 2.0 interface. But consider the risk of damaging the Mini if you open it up, which involves major dis-assembly. By comparison, an internal SSD on the 2012 Mini is around 500MB/sec. I ran my 2012 quad-core Mini Server off a 1tb USB SSD for a few years and used it for extensive audio and video editing, it was very fast. This is fast enough to boot your Mini and use as a system disk, that might be a stop-gap solution until you can afford a better computer and you could always use it as an extra drive in the future when you get a new computer.
(these speeds are all based on my own tests over the years)Ī USB 3.0 external SSD will give you about 400MB/sec transfer speed on your 2012 Mini.
A small bus-powered USB 3.0 hard drive will be around 100MB/sec and a good externally powered USB 3.0 hard drive should be around 170MB/sec. USB 2.0 hard drives are also very slow, typically only 30 to 35 MB/sec. Run the Blackmagic speed test on it, wouldn't be surprised if you get around 15MB/sec. Most thumb drives are REALLY slow, that will be a very poor solution for anything that involves lots of data transfer.
#MAC MINI LATE 2012 HARD DRIVE UPGRADE UPGRADE#
I would look into buying used RAM instead of new if I decided to upgrade it. But if for videos, I'm sure I would want a newer model.īTW, SSD can be made useful with newer computer in the future. It's even OK for light still 3D editing (rendering is another story, Apple doesn't support any current NVIDIA GPU anyway). For still images, it is more than enough. It runs Mojave faster than it ran Mavericks at stock configuration. My mini is now 16GB RAM with 860EVO 250GB + Stock 500GB HDD (non-fusion). How big are the files and what type of connection the external drive uses? That sounds like other kinds of problem, such as drive gone bad or something wrong about connection. However you should not wait for "hours" to transfer files. It will resort to disk swap very soon in the process and the HDD performs really bad for that. I don't think 4GB is enough for photo tasks. Any macOS that uses APFS format requires an SSD as boot drive to get good experience.
#MAC MINI LATE 2012 HARD DRIVE UPGRADE UPDATE#
What one will transfer files faster to an external hard drive and will also update to an SSD drive later on
#MAC MINI LATE 2012 HARD DRIVE UPGRADE MAC#
Late 2014 upgraded to the 16GB Ram 3.0GHz Duel Core i7 1TB Drive-400.00 UPDATE drive to SSD later on as funds allowĢ018 Mac mini 128GBSSD -499.00 update Memory later on as funds allow
I like Mojave and want to update os later on (Is this a hard drive speed problem or a memory problem) ? It can take hours and hours of waiting to transfer them I use an external 1TB hard drive and transfer my “raw” files and screenshot files to it Its slow, and old, and I have Mojave on it Im using a late 2012 Mac mini now 4gb of ram 500gb hard drive bought new way back then My 2012 is stupid slow, and now when i open up my external drive it takes forever for it to open the folder and icons When you transfer jpeg,gif,raw, files, to an external hard drive
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