OS X may have the hard drive kind of busy the first few days you use it - it'll figure out what needs to be on the SSD and what should be on the hard drive automatically. Reinstall Mavericks from USB, restore the Time Machine backup, and you're right where you left off only this time with much better performance. Beware this wipes everything so that's why Time Machine is important. The fusion drive setup was really easy - fire up Disk Utility and it shows the two drives in red and just makes the fusion drive for you. I created a USB installer for Mavericks, made sure Time Machine was up to date, then installed the SSD in the top drive bay (that was the hard part). That's with basically the same hardware as you. Now I have a 1.25TB Fusion Drive and boot time is about 10 seconds. I ended up getting the dual drive kit from OWC and added a solid state drive in my Mini. It does not store any personal data.These things are slow as heck to boot up and at least in my case, the fault laid with the hard drive. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Performance'. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Necessary'. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Functional'. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Analytics'. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This Apple Mac mini 2012 features a 22-nm Quad Core “Ivy Bridge” 2.3 GHz Intel “Core i7” (3615QM) with four independent processor “cores” on a single chip, a 6 MB shared level 3 cache, 8 GB of 1600 MHz DDR3 SDRAM (PC3-12800) memory, a 1 TB hard drive, and Intel HD Graphics 4000 share the system memory.Ĭonnectivity for this Apple Mac mini 2012 includes 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi, Gigabit Ethernet, Bluetooth 4.0, Firewire “800” port, four USB 3.0 ports, HDMI, Thunderbolt, combined “audio line in (digital/analog)” and combined “audio line out/headphone (digital/analog)” minijacks, a 10/100/1000Base-T port, 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi, and an SDXC card slot.

Apple mac mini 2012 i7 2.6ghz