Solid state drives like the 2TB Samsung Portable SSD T5 ($799.99) buck the 2.5-inch form factor of their portable hard drive predecessors.

Hey Guys, So I was looking to buy the new 2014 Mac Mini and looked up the reviews for it. Most of them said it was very slow.

So I thought I could tackle this by using an External SSD (Samsung EVO series) to boot Yosemite on to it so that the OS runs on the SSD making the system a lot faster, I could then use the hard drive for storage. But the problem I'm not sure how I would do that. I know how to create a bootable Yosemite flash drive and I know I'll need to connect the SSD via a USB enclosure. But what do I do from there? If someone could give me a step by step guide that would be really helpful. You can go with a USB 3 external enclosure and put your SSD in that. However there are a few drawbacks, then most important one is the an external SSD connected to your Mac using USB will not support TRIM.

This means you need to pick an SSD with a very well regarded garbage collection system that works well without TRIM, and you will need to set aside additional SSD space to ensure the garbage collection system operates well. You could pick a Thunderbolt based enclosure, they will work fine with TRIm. However they are a bit more expensive then USB 3 enclosures. If your going to buy a new Mac mini then the fastest option is to get it with a built-in SSD. You can always use slower, bigger external drives for additional file storage. The next fastest option is to get an external enclosure, there are some Thunderbolt ones like this (also supports USB 3.0), and some USB 3.1 enclosures like this although please note that the current i.e.

2014 Mac mini only supports USB 3.0 and does not yet support USB 3.1. This is backwards compatible so it would also be 'future proof'. Tommytech wrote: Anyone know EI captain is default support TRIM? You can enable TRIM in El Capitan from the command line with the command: sudo trimforce enable You will be asked for your password and then you will see a dire warning (Apple CYA statement) and a choice to continue. Go ahead an do it.

Note as stated, TRIM in only supported on internal drives and Thunderbolt drives. Before doing so, check with the manufacturer of your SSD to see if TRIM is a good idea. Depending on the drive, it can help performance, make not difference, and on some actually degrade performance slightly. I thought I would post this set of article since there seems to be some confusion about interfaces and the speeds available from them. The last one references a PCIe SATA card for the Mac Pro. While not directly germane to the Mac mini question here, it does show the speeds obtainable from a Samsung 850 EVO connected to the Mac's PCIe bus through a SATA III interface. As you can see that while the speed available via USB 3 is slightly lower than SATA III it is not that great a loss, especially when you consider the cost difference between a USB single drive enclosure, and a equivalent Thunderbolt enclosures.

Where Thunderbolt shines is when you are connecting multiple SSD to your Mac, or when you just have to squeeze the last drop of performance out of an external SSD that uses a SATA interface. One other consideration if you choose to use an external SSD connected via USB 3 is to make sure the enclosure supports.

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