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Evening,
HAs anyone done one of these in real life? The videos show you how to take the thing to a million bits, but I'm concerned that it may not be as easy in real life. I've done a couple of iPhone 5 screens, and iPhone 5 battery, but I don't know if I'm ready to bugger up my desktop completely.
Changed the hardrive in my 2009 Mini. Not too bad. What model year is yours ?
Yeah done it
Does require a fair degree of delicacy, and the correct tools, but I've done more fiddly jobs.
Think it's a 2011 version. Was it worth doing from a performance point of view?
did my 2012(ish) mac mini - made a big difference on performance. Was okay to do - there are plenty of instruction videos about.
Think it's a 2011 version.
That's what I've got...
Was it worth doing from a performance point of view?
Night
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Day...
No use having an i5/i7 processor and 8GB plus of RAM if the HDD is only capable of reading at 50MBps... Not when even the cheaper SSD's are 10x faster than that these days!
Cheers.
Does anyone have a recommendation for the SSD then, the crucial one I was looking at was about £130 for a 500GB drive.
I use Samsung Evo/Pro. £130 for 500GB seems pretty cheap to me.
As above speed difference is huge and eases RAM pressure impact too. An SSD will read/write at 500mps whereas an old harddrive is probably around 50. So 10 times faster. Boot from cold in 20 seconds not 2-3 minutes. Applications start immediately.
You will probably need some special tools, check how-to guides - torx 10 screw driver for example.
You will need to understand how to clone or restore from time machine backup to duplicate the harddrive to the ssd. Having tried a few methods I prefer to make a bootable usb and then put the ssd into the machine blank, boot from isb and then format the ssd. The old harddrive I like to put in a £15 usb caddy. You can then clone it to the ssd or do a restore from time machine if you have such a backup.
Cheers all. I've got a 500gb external hard drive plugged in for a time machine backup, and I've got a USB hard drive caddy with a laptop hard disk in somewhere that'll probably work.
Does anyone have a recommendation for the SSD then,
I'd agree with Jamba (well, it is a Mac thread). Samsung Evo is the one to get.
OP lookup command key start up modes.
If you have 8gb+ ram you are fine, if only 4 I suggest adding more ar same time.