DAalseth

robin huber said:

DAalseth said:

I had another thought. OWC makes an external drive, the MiniStack STX that has the same footprint as the Mini, and a similar look. It has space for a spinning drive and an SSD, plus some extra USB-C ports on the back. I might leave the Mini’s drive at 256, and set it on one of these. Use the Mini’s internal for things that need a lot of speed, but Photos, and Music don’t. Plus the extra ports would be nice. That would be a nice combination, and for a bit over $400 for 1TB spinning and 1TB SSD, a serious option compared to bumping the Mini drive up. 

I love your idea, but do not know how to separate functions between drive A and B. When you set up a new Mac I don’t think it gives you a choice. If there is a way to drag the Photos “app” onto the B drive, I would worry that some necessary tidbits would remain on A, requiring the Mac to shuttle back and forth between drives to do various functions while using Photos. Probably a dumb question, but I am not a power user and my only experience with secondary drives is as TimeMachine backup. 

With Photos, and I believe Music, you can just set the system up normally, with no Photos or music data. Then you tell each of them the new location for the files. I’d probably let MacOS and most everything else on the internal drive and point Music and Photos at the external SSD. The spinning HDD would be for TimeMachine. 

I had another thought. OWC makes an external drive, the MiniStack STX that has the same footprint as the Mini, and a similar look. It has space for a spinning drive and an SSD, plus some extra USB-C ports on the back. I might leave the Mini’s drive at 256, and set it on one of these. Use the Mini’s internal for things that need a lot of speed, but Photos, and Music don’t. Plus the extra ports would be nice. That would be a nice combination, and for a bit over $400 for 1TB spinning and 1TB SSD, a serious option compared to bumping the Mini drive up. 

Does anyone know why you download the update, it verifies the update, then when you tell it to install it verifies the update again? I mean I’m all for security, but literally it just did that,

That seems a bit soon after the M2 release. Of course it get’s confusing because of the overlap, they are still producing M1 things yet. 

Anyone seen system Geekbench scores for these yet? Not just processor, but full system.