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<blockquote data-quote="pm-r" data-source="post: 1822982" data-attributes="member: 175845"><p>Sorry, I'm not trying to be a jerk, but would definitely agree about replacing your hard drive, and would not install anything less than a 7200-rpm HDD</p><p>Or as has been suggested, installing a decent-sized 7200 RPM HDD <strong>PLUS</strong> maybe an additional SSD. Then use the latter as a boot drive.</p><p></p><p>Your installed 16GB RAM should be more than enough for the type of work you seem to do, and redoing thermal paste as suggestion should be completely unnecessary on a 7 year old Mac, and certainly not recommended for somebody to do who does not do it regularly. </p><p></p><p>PS: You can find all the specs for your particular Mac and some of the suggested upgrades and suggested sources here:</p><p><a href="https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/specs/mac-mini-core-i7-2.3-late-2012-specs.html" target="_blank">Mac mini "Core i7" 2.3 (Late 2012) Specs (Late 2012, MD388LL/A, Macmini6,2, A1347, 2570): EveryMac.com</a></p><p></p><p>Many of the suggested sources are also recommended by various members on this site.</p><p></p><p>I would strongly recommend <em><strong>first thing</strong></em> that you have and use a new external hard drive and use CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) to clone your existing drive to make a bootable backup.</p><p></p><p>Once that is done and tested, you could also try just erasing your existing Boot Drive and use the new CCC clone to clone your backup to your freshly erased boot Drive. That alone would probably speed things up drastically.</p><p></p><p>PPS: The above are not any jerk type comments, but things I know that work from 30+ years working with and supporting Macs.</p><p></p><p>PPPS: when was the last time you did some Mac maintenance like booting up using Safe Boot Mode and restarting, which alone will throw out a lot of crap and organize other stuff, and may even help speeding things up.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Good luck.</p><p></p><p></p><p>- Patrick</p><p>======</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pm-r, post: 1822982, member: 175845"] Sorry, I'm not trying to be a jerk, but would definitely agree about replacing your hard drive, and would not install anything less than a 7200-rpm HDD Or as has been suggested, installing a decent-sized 7200 RPM HDD [B]PLUS[/B] maybe an additional SSD. Then use the latter as a boot drive. Your installed 16GB RAM should be more than enough for the type of work you seem to do, and redoing thermal paste as suggestion should be completely unnecessary on a 7 year old Mac, and certainly not recommended for somebody to do who does not do it regularly. PS: You can find all the specs for your particular Mac and some of the suggested upgrades and suggested sources here: [url=https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/specs/mac-mini-core-i7-2.3-late-2012-specs.html]Mac mini "Core i7" 2.3 (Late 2012) Specs (Late 2012, MD388LL/A, Macmini6,2, A1347, 2570): EveryMac.com[/url] Many of the suggested sources are also recommended by various members on this site. I would strongly recommend [I][B]first thing[/B][/I] that you have and use a new external hard drive and use CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) to clone your existing drive to make a bootable backup. Once that is done and tested, you could also try just erasing your existing Boot Drive and use the new CCC clone to clone your backup to your freshly erased boot Drive. That alone would probably speed things up drastically. PPS: The above are not any jerk type comments, but things I know that work from 30+ years working with and supporting Macs. PPPS: when was the last time you did some Mac maintenance like booting up using Safe Boot Mode and restarting, which alone will throw out a lot of crap and organize other stuff, and may even help speeding things up. Good luck. - Patrick ====== [/QUOTE]
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