I apologize for the length of this, I'm trying to be thorough. Also, if this shouldn't be in this thread, my apologies, I couldn't find one that I thought was more appropriate.
I am an IT professional. I work with both Mac's and PC's, but over the last several years my work has been primarily PC based.
I have a 2012 Mac Mini (i7, 16 GB RAM) that I was using for app development years ago, but which now servers as my media center.
Due to some driver incompatibilities with previous hardware, I was running Windows 10 on the mini with no real issues. Until I recently got with with some ransomware and I thought, here's a chance to try Mac OS again.
I fired up the Mini, deleted the Windows partition and upgraded to Mac Sierra. All good.
The issues is that the same hardware that I had running Windows 10 is having a large number of performance issues. Just basic things.
I have an Orico external HDD enclosure. The Mac OS seems to really struggle to write/read to this any performance. I use the Media Center to share with other computers around my house (movies, mostly), and things that worked perfectly, or with expected, insignificant lags, now struggle.
For example, previously, I could open the shared volume on my desktop (windows 10) and start any movie instantly. Transferring files worked as you might expected by two computers that are hard wired.
Since the move to Sierra, double-clicking a file can take anywhere from 5-20 seconds to open. File transfers are much, much slower than I have experienced before. Even once a file is opened, it can suffer from lag at times.
Just on the 1 in a million chance that the hardware magically failed at the same time I moved to Sierra, I tried some other enclosures and HDD with the same result.
It doesn't seem to suffer so much with the internal hard drive, but the USB external is definitely having an issue.
After all that, what I'm looking for is advice on how to approach this problem. It's obviously not the hardware since Windows 10 worked on it perfectly, and I would like to figure out how to fix this issue on the Mac, if only for my own education.
All responses are greatly appreciated.
Cheers.
I am an IT professional. I work with both Mac's and PC's, but over the last several years my work has been primarily PC based.
I have a 2012 Mac Mini (i7, 16 GB RAM) that I was using for app development years ago, but which now servers as my media center.
Due to some driver incompatibilities with previous hardware, I was running Windows 10 on the mini with no real issues. Until I recently got with with some ransomware and I thought, here's a chance to try Mac OS again.
I fired up the Mini, deleted the Windows partition and upgraded to Mac Sierra. All good.
The issues is that the same hardware that I had running Windows 10 is having a large number of performance issues. Just basic things.
I have an Orico external HDD enclosure. The Mac OS seems to really struggle to write/read to this any performance. I use the Media Center to share with other computers around my house (movies, mostly), and things that worked perfectly, or with expected, insignificant lags, now struggle.
For example, previously, I could open the shared volume on my desktop (windows 10) and start any movie instantly. Transferring files worked as you might expected by two computers that are hard wired.
Since the move to Sierra, double-clicking a file can take anywhere from 5-20 seconds to open. File transfers are much, much slower than I have experienced before. Even once a file is opened, it can suffer from lag at times.
Just on the 1 in a million chance that the hardware magically failed at the same time I moved to Sierra, I tried some other enclosures and HDD with the same result.
It doesn't seem to suffer so much with the internal hard drive, but the USB external is definitely having an issue.
After all that, what I'm looking for is advice on how to approach this problem. It's obviously not the hardware since Windows 10 worked on it perfectly, and I would like to figure out how to fix this issue on the Mac, if only for my own education.
All responses are greatly appreciated.
Cheers.