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Mac mini with external ssd5/17/2023 (As an aside, it’s a lovely little bit of hardware. ![]() I ordered (as I mentioned a while back) a Samsung T5 portable SSD (500 GB). ![]() ![]() I had nothing to lose (apart from my sanity, mwahaha), so thought I’d at least have a go. I would have to walk away and come back, just to open (for example) system preferences.īut! Several folk online also mentioned that doing an install of the operating system to an external SSD resulted in a new lease of life for their minis. Not just a bit of old-computer-sluggishness launching an application took many minutes to start up, accompanied by non-stop beachballing. I didn’t realise that these late-2014 mac minis were so painfully slow when I first ordered mine, but after a bit of frustrated googling found out that many, many people were complaining about their performance. This has been my view for much of the weekend, but after setting up the external disk for the mac mini (late-2014 model) the experience has been extremely enjoyable-rather than the exercise in frustration the last few years have been. ![]() Setting up an external SSD on the mac mini
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