Upgrade Mac Mini to SSD drive and 8GB Ram.

Upgraded Mac Mini Server (late 2009) running Snow Leopard Server 10.6.5

Unit is not really used as a server. Only difference between a regular Mac mini and the Server is the fact that the optical drive has been replaced with a second Hard Drive.

This configuration was alway's used with one drive dedicated to run the operating system and hold the user library. All other data is stored on the second hard drive. Before starting this project I imaged the boot drive to the new OWC 60GB SSD drive. So there is no difference before and after the upgrade other than the SSD drive and upgrade from four to eight GB ram.

In these demo's there were no apps running before the start of the reboot.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Mac
• Mini
• Server
• SSD
• GB
• Ram
• Upgrade
• Aperture
• Snow
• Leopard
• 10.6.5
• Rogier
• Willems

[RogierYou]

I forgot, its one of the tunes that comes with iMovie.

[RogierYou]

I tried different colors but non of them really worked, sorry.

[RogierYou]

I have 8GB in my mini and it works fabulous.

Check with Macsales for availability.

[RogierYou]

This Mini has 8GB of ram and had the OS with user Library on the SSD drive and the rest on the 320 GB HD witch is of course not as fast when opening large files like the Aperture library.

In this example the Mini is not only booting up to the desktop but also opening Aperture 3 and a substantial Aperture library on the HD witch takes some time.

I can assure you that the user experience of this combo is awesome!

[RogierYou]

Thanks!

Until recently I worked as a Genius for Apple and had my fair hand of experience with all kind of Mac's. Before this Mini I had a MB Pro 2.66 with 8GB ram. A Mac Pro with 16GB ram fast drives the works. Seriously this Souped up mini is my fastest machine ever. For sure not in benchmarks but in user experience!

I am not a videographer, I do photography and have no problem with 100MB Tiff files. If you need to cut time in processing video you might want to use a hi end iMac dough...

[16dbaxter]

What is this song?

[ArthurTHTV]

Dude why the hell colour the letters BLACK?

[ahmedafandi]

i have the 2009 mac mini with the upgraded Processor from apple and the specs specfies that it can only take 4gb doesnt it?

[mastersirus1985]

How come with a 320gb hdd and 2gb ram-lots of apps I still get a boot of 35seconds?

[levasp]

Cool video dude! I'm thinking of upgrading my Mac Mini to 8GB's of RAM, how fast does it run? I need it for editing videos on Final Cut, I do some heavy duty editing. So yeah.