Time for a drive upgrade. This HDD I’m replacing is the last remaining component from the pre-built I bought in 2018.
@hybridhavoc Please, for the sake of your mental health, get an SSD. A few months ago, I replaced the HDD on an old Mac Mini and paid only $15 for a 256GB SSD. The mf runs like it’s new.
Oh no worries on that, I did. Luckily the drive I was replacing was just for media, not for the OS, but I decided to go with a 2.5” SATA drive for it. My OS drive and games drive were both already NVME M.2 drives.
Speaking of slow computers though, I recently reinstalled MacOS on an iMac from like 2012… It was excruciatingly slow, even just to boot into the OS. I do not miss those days.
Does it take a lot less time these days? The 2014 Mac Mini is the first and (so far) the only Apple device I’ve owned. The OS installation and updates take close to an hour on this one.
That feels about right for how long it took that one. I don’t have any idea what more modern macs are like - that 2012 one is the only one I’ve ever worked on, and it wasn’t for personal use. I suspect that if it had an SSD it would have gone faster.
I suspect that if it had an SSD it would have gone faster.
My experiment was with an SSD. With a hard drive, it took close to an entire day.
