Is moving SSD from USB3 to SATA worth it?
I've been running my late 2014 mid grade Mac Mini via an external Sandisk SSD hard drive for nearly two years. But I have noticed boot times are much slower since upgrading to Mojave. The upgrade to the previous macOS did not show any slow downs. General disk access appears to take a little longer. But it's not as unbearable as the Mini's stock 5400rpm hard drive. Etrecheck thinks the machine's OS disk access is great. But I have noticed a slow down.
I recently purchased a Samsung EVO 960. I've cloned the Sandisk to that drive. I was planning on replacing the 5400 drive with this one. Then only use the SanDisk as a pure external drive for extra storage. Given Apple has made it difficult to get to the Mac Mini's hard drive, is it worth moving this SSD to the SATA port inside. Will there be that much of a performance boost to run it off of SATA instead of USB3? The speed difference shows SATA is 6mbs vs USB 3's 5mbs. But I keep seeing bandwidth talk. But don't understand how that will affect casual computer operations.
Thanks,
Glenn
Fort Worth, TX
Mac mini, macOS 10.14