12/2/2020 0 Comments What Ssd For Mac Mini 2014
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![]() ![]() Given that I have monitors, I really dont want to upgrade to an iMac. Would this work I know the swap out is a B, having seen the iFixit guide, but I am used to doing fine dexterity things. My main question is whether the SSD upgrade will really solve my problems and make this a decent machine or not. Thanks in advance 18 comments share save hide report 100 Upvoted This thread is archived New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast Sort by best. Moved as much stuff as I could find off my HDD and that still filled up about 380GB. Bought a 500GB Crucial SSD on Amazon for about 170 and all the tools I needed to do this job, which came out to 200 on the nose total. Took about 4-5 hours to clone the hard drive, not sure why it was so long, but after watching about 4-5 videos on doing the job on YouTube, I was confident. Fired her up with the new SSD and its like getting a new computer. Word, Excel, etc start up in 10 seconds instead of a couple minutes. I would go with a 500gb SSD (1TB seems a little excessive) and then keep the stock HDD as a backup drive. Also I would upgrade that RAM to 8GB, thatll help too level 2 Original Poster 4 points 2 years ago Its soldered in, so theres no changing RAM on 2014 model level 1 3 points 2 years ago If you can do it yes - I put an SSD in my 2010 mini and it flies now - apps open immediately. I agree with the others though - 1TB is excessive - you only really need to run your system and applications from an SSD - you can always store the docs on something else. What Ssd Mini 2014 Free On ItI have a 500gb HDD in the MacMini and I only have 80gb free on it, and thats with pretty much everything I can think of moved over to an external hard drive. Ill have to figure out whats taking up so much space on my HD. Continue this thread level 2 Original Poster 2 points 2 years ago On a related note, as long as its a SATA 2.5 drive I should be good to go, right I dont need any particular one, i.e. Crucial one I found on Amazon would be fine Continue this thread level 1 2 points 2 years ago Yeah that should help. Maybe instead of 1 Terabyte go for 256 GB (assuming you mainly use it for Word as you said) and get 8 GB of ram as well. Im assuming I need to clone the current one to the SSD first Any pointers level 2 3 points 2 years ago I would use Carbon Copy Cloner. Before you begin the upgrade, plug in your new SSD into your Mac mini using a USB to SATA adapter and clone your current drive to your new SSD. ![]() Continue this thread level 1 1 point 2 years ago How did your upgrade go Did you clone your disk Im going to work on a similar upgrade on my mac mini this weekend.
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