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Title: Use an external SSD to make an old Mac feel new (without cracking it open) Post by: HCK on April 08, 2015, 03:00:13 pm Use an external SSD to make an old Mac feel new (without cracking it open)
<article> <section class="page"> <p> My mid-2011 Mac mini had slowed down. Way down. Starting with Mavericks, the mini would eventually bog down after a number of days between restarts, and require a force restart or manual one.</p><p> It took several minutes to power up and start loading apps, and then around 20 minutes, if not longer, to be fully responsive—this despite 16GB of RAM. My late-2011 MacBook Air, with just 4GB, restarts and is available within a couple minutes. What gives?</p><p> I had to figure it out, because I increasingly found myself wasting time and waiting.</p><h2>No pressure, honestly</h2> <p> You’d think someone writing the Mac 911 column (http://www.macworld.com/column/mac911/) would have plenty of ideas, and yes, I did. Restarting would often free up 20 to 40GB of disk space on the mini’s internal 500GB hard drive. (See this Mac 911 column (http://www.macworld.com/article/2892379/find-your-missing-wi-fi-adapter-and-free-up-that-other-storage-space.html) for more about caches.) But the Mac wasn’t any faster after a restart than before.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2907125/use-an-external-ssd-to-make-an-old-mac-feel-new-without-cracking-it-open.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Use an external SSD to make an old Mac feel new (without cracking it open) (http://www.macworld.com/article/2907125/use-an-external-ssd-to-make-an-old-mac-feel-new-without-cracking-it-open.html#tk.rss_all) |