The SATA standard has now undergone three major revisions, resulting in connectors that are identical in appearance (hurray for backwards compatibility), but with bandwidth doubling each time. The SATA standard’s been in use for many years and is still the most prevalent interface for connecting internal storage drives. SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) refers to the technology standard for connecting hard drives, solid state drive, and optical drives to the computer’s motherboard. Luckily, advances in host interfaces invariably stay ahead of the pace of drive technologies, always allowing room to push speeds a bit farther. If you are, it’s time to get up to speed!Įver faster drive technology, brought about by faster spinning disks, increased cache, advances in controller architecture, and a host of other factors keeps pushing the host interface to become the bottleneck for read and write speeds. If you’re into vintage computers and you think patience is a virtue that can only be honed by waiting for programs to respond, maybe you’re still rocking a drive with a PATA interface. 5AĮvery hard drive or solid state drive you’ve used in the past ten years is likely to have used either a SATA interface, or more recently a PCI Express interface.
MAC MINI 2012 UPGRADE TO SSD FULL VERSION
Since Apple actually plans TRIM only for own SSDs, you still need the TRIM Enablerwhich in the full version costs another 10 US dollars - but it is a sensible investment.Īt the end of the day, after upgrading with an SSD, you get a much quieter and, above all, much faster MacMini - it's definitely worth it, especially if your Mac no longer has a warranty. But after a few tries you get routine and the disassembly/assembly of the Mac is fast and safe.
TRIM EnablerAfter my first SATA cable unfortunately had a defect and I had to order a new one (can happen, in the meantime I had decided to use the MacMini only with the SSD anyway) I needed a few tries until everything worked. I decided to buy a Samsung 840 EVO, with 250 GB capacity - with this SSD the price-performance ratio is convincing, you get it for about 150 Euro at Amazon. Nevertheless, it must be pointed out that the warranty is lost when the hard disk is replaced.
MAC MINI 2012 UPGRADE TO SSD MANUAL
There are different instructions to manage the conversion, I have followed the Manual held by iFixit - according to the illustration the conversion is easy to manage. In principle, however, two 2.5-inch hard disks fit into the case, and the MacMini Server is built in the same way.
Unfortunately the MacMini is not easy to upgrade, except for the RAM, because of the small case.
Unfortunately, when I bought it used, it was only equipped with the standard HDD and not with the FusionDrive offered by Apple, which combines an SSD and an HDD into one logical drive and thus provides more performance. I'm talking about a MacMini Late 2012 with a 2.3 GHz quad-core (Core i7) and 8 gigabytes of RAM - the middle model. Unfortunately not provided by Apple, therefore a bit more complicated. The solution: the installation of an SSD. If you own a MacMini, you may have noticed that the standard HDD is not very fast - and is also clearly audible.
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