Makes no difference at all what you replace the existing drive with as long as it has the correct interface. Apple, at least in all the units I’ve popped open uses a standard spec drive interface with a normal pin out. I believe it’s all SATA. Just buy an SSD with the same interface and you’re good to go. I like Crucial drives which are Mikron produced and very very high quality. Also a fraction of the cost of Apple with better read and write performance. Fusion is another option but I wouldn’t bother. SSD’s performance is so good I don’t see the point of hybrids.
I have a client who has 4.5 petabytes of SSD storage in a filer and uses it to
produce popular films including a series with a certain talking Donkey and the
performance and reliability is just unsurpassed. It was actually the profits
from Shrek that funded the purchase of the filer.
If you’re doing any sort of recording or video editing, forget anything with
rotating media, it’s just to slow and you’ll be fighting with it. The filer I
speak of I personally saw handle thousands of clients all rendering and
editing. Most clients were connected at 10G or greater and all that continued
access and hammering would have leveled anything with rotating media. Speeds
are 45 times faster with a good SSD over anything that rotates. Even fusion
drives with whopper sized caches.
While you may not have a billion dollars for a drive array, you would
get a huge boost in your home applications by migrating to SSD and it’s cheap,
$300 or so for a TB.
Good luck
> On Jul 8, 2016, at 6:40 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know in a late 2012 mac mini, if those things would be able to
> support either an SSD drive, or a Fusion Drive instead of it's stocked
> platter drive?
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Simon Fogarty <mailto:si...@blinky-net.com>
>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
>> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2016 6:06 AM
>> Subject: RE: Opinions On This Used Mac Mini
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>> Hi Arnold,
>>
>> That price in kiwi dollars is bloody good.
>>
>> As for the 4 gig ram, in the 2011 mac mini it’s really easy to change ram
>> and you should be able to put 16 gig in to that model of mini.
>>
>> I had a 2010 server that was updated by myself to 16 gb ram, and I did the
>> same with my current mac mini from 2012.
>>
>> Shame I’m not using it as much now and looking to sell it.
>>
>> Good luck with it
>> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
>> <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
>> <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>] On Behalf Of Arnold Schmidt
>> Sent: Friday, 8 July 2016 4:51 AM
>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
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>> It is from 2011. It has an i5, I think 2.5 gig, processor, but only 4 gig
>> of ram. It has a 500 gig hard drive, which is plenty for me. They want
>> about $430 for this computer. Thanks for any opinions.
>>
>> Arnold Schmidt
>>
>> Arnold Schmidt
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