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Why is it still painfully slow after upgrading to SSD?

I recently bought a MacMini2014 from eBay. The stock hard drive was clicking and it was really slow so I swapped it out with an upgraded SSD. (Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA).

I used online recovery to instal MacOS - so there was no data or partition information carried over from the old stock drive.

It takes about 25 seconds before I see the Apple logo - and then a further minute before it fully boots up.

I feel like I’m missing something obvious here but all my searches thus far haven’t yielded a solution.

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New ssds are not compatible with older machines, I'm not a mac user but I assume you checked that? I saw a post here recently on the topic. Might figure in. https://www.crucial.com/compatible-upgra...)

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Hi,

Thanks for taking the time to comment.

I checked as far as the SATA version (my Mac is SATA 3).

I have done some research and tried a few things like enabling TRIM support etc but had little luck.

Currently trying recovery option I’ve erased everything and trying clean install.

Worryingly - the time has jumped UP by 15 mins.

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Hang in there, I expect a Mac person will turn up shortly.

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hi

sorry to here you are having a problem with your Mac

I'm quite good with Macs so I will try my best to fix your issue!

lets start by downloading this https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/blackmagic... from the App Store

if you can run it and tell me the speed for read and write and we can work from there

thanks :-)

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Hey,

Thanks for replying. I missed the email notification, so just reacting now.

I actually downloaded the app right after I re-installed the OS. From memory I was getting around 380mb/s and 430mb/s which felt Ok to me.

I tried resetting PRAM/NVRAM I got the double chime so I’m confident it was done right.

I’m starting to wonder if it’s just a case of the CPU isn’t great (2 core i5) and it’s trying to run the latest MacOS and struggling.

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From what your speed test result ad what you’ve already tried is telling me ,it sound like you have bad RAM

Not to worry though I would try reseating it and if no luck plug one stick in at a time and see if you can find out what one is bad through process of elimination

Hopefully this answers your question

If not, keep on going with the info!

Thanks:-)

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Sadly, the RAM in this model is soldered in. Is there a comprehensive tool that can check CPU/RAM and give off a report that I could upload?

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Sadly as far as I know there isnt a app but there is a a command

If you power down your Mac and then on your keyboard press command D when powering back up

It will boot into a apple diognostic and should tell you what the issue is

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