Upgrading Mac Mini: Advantages of an SSD hard drive
Upgrading your Mac Mini to an SSD hard drive will accelerate its read and write speed. However, Apple is paying an expensive SSD disk. The surcharge when buying a Mac Mini is at least 200.00 euros. It is therefore worth thinking about upgrading afterwards. The advantages for your system summarized:
The advantages of an SSD hard drive in the Mac Mini
- Reading and writing processes are considerably accelerated. You will feel this especially when you are working on large files.
- The overall performance of the system increases significantly. Mac OS is very memory-hungry and often stores data on the hard disk even in systems with more than 4GB main memory. With an SSD hard disk, the reading performance usually increases by more than 70%. The write processes run up to 50% faster. This makes the whole system much more performant, which you will notice immediately.
- You can install the removed conventional hard drive in an external USB hard drive housing and continue to operate it on your MAC Mini. This gives you a large data storage for your music, your films and your pictures and a fast system drive on which the operating system and the programs should be housed.
Back up data before converting!
Before you start the conversion, you should make a backup of your data or your complete system drive. Read our best tips for backups with the Time Machine. Please also note that you will lose the guarantee if you upgrade.
Are you also thinking about upgrading your RAM? In another practical tip, we will show you how much memory Mac OS X can address.