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The cheap budget SSDs like the Crucial BX500 series will actually keep decreasing down to 40MB/s and even get stuck there for a long time.
It has been several years since I ran those tests. IIRC from my own personal tests on the Crucial MX500 series the write cache fills up after about 45 seconds of non-stop sequential writes and will slow down from about 450MB/s to 250MB/s and stabilize there (unless I'm thinkng of the MX300 series). OWC used to make a cheap one as well (I think it was called "N"), but I don't see is an option anymore.Īny SSD using TLC or QLC technology will have some ideosynchrasies and performance issues once the write cache has been filled. The OWC Mercury Electra or OWC Mercury Extreme are also good options. The worst SSDs to purchase are the cheap budget economy models like the Crucial BX500 series.
INTERNAL DRIVE FOR MAC MINI LATE 2012 REVIEWS UPGRADE
You get less connectivity but more expandibilty than the current models, our unit has had the memory and drive upgraded, it is not possible to upgrade the memory in a new Mac Mini once it has shipped.Īnother alternative if you don’t mind an all-in-one solution is a used iMac, a used 27” iMac 3.1Ghz i5 Quad 16Gb 1Tb will cost you around £900, however as is becoming more common with Macs, make sure that you have the options to upgrade memory and drives - in some of the newer Macs this is not possible… even the Mac Pro.A Mac Mini 2012 only has a SATA III controller for a 2.5" SSD so the SSD speed will at most be somewhere between 450MB/s to 500MB/s under optimal conditions. If you want a Quad Core i7 Mac Mini then you are better off getting a last generation Mac Mini Server, you’ll get more bang for your buck for the same kind of money. Remember this is us running audio at 96K abd through the internal soundcard, not the most likely set-up.
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Whilst an i5 Mac Mini is no powerhouse, neither is it useless for use as a machine for Pro Tools, if you’re wanting a budget Mac based computer. We do not say this to endorse an upgrade to a yet Avid qualified OS, simply to let you know our findings. It exhibited less of the trademark jolty performance metering that often occurs in Pro Tools and ran showing less CPU usage. Oddly enough the performance of Pro Tools on the unqualified 10.10 Yosemite OS was more stable. We ran the early tests on this machine with it running 10.8.5 Mountain Lion, however as the test on the Macbook Pro 15” Retina had been conducted using 10.10 Yosemite we decided to upgrade the OS to level the playing field and then run the test again. The session could be set to 2048 samples if this was required and at this setting the session ran without issue. The session would not play at H/W buffer sizes of under 1024, once settled it seemed to run at 1024 without any further issues.16 MIDI tracks with an instance of AIR Boom running with MIDI data.
A mono audio track would record without issue along with 64 audio tracks in playback.64 Audio tracks reached without buffer errors.All audio tracks had an instance of Avid Channel Strip and Dverb inserted.Disk cache disabled to emulate native versions of Pro Tools.Volume automation recorded on every track.5 minutes of mono audio, with edits at every 1 second.96Khz - maximum with internal sound card.Is it just fit for a few demo tracks or can you get some real work done… find out below. This is the basic’ test, just the Mac Mini, internal soundcard and internal drive, it’s just you, your Mac, an iLok, headphones and a USB micro keyboard.
We’ve been asked to run the same test on a Mac Mini, so we’ve run this test on a Late 2012 i5 which is more or less the same kind of spec as the new mid range model in the latest round of Mac Minis. A few days ago we took the latest Macbook Pro Retina 15” for a spin to see how it handles Pro Tools 11, you can see our Macbook Pro 15” Retina Pro Tools 11 test here.
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