mac mini 1.1 ssd

Having some 2011 and 2012 mini's that have now been running four years and a bit longer with Crucial M4 SSD's without a problem at all. Initially without trim support from Apple, and had to use a third party solution for that. Excellent reliability.

Your mini will handle SATA II fine, no problem.

Leo

TRIM had not been supported (got turned on) after Snow Leopard (10.6.8) - I think.

If you still used OS version prior to Snow Leopard - I would suggest to upgrade if you plan to use SSD.

Unfortunately, Apple only support third party SSD (via terminal command) after 10.10.4 --

for my own experience (you can take it with grains of salt) -

if you want TRIM to be supported natively, you might want to get to latest OS your mini can support (I think snow leopard is it).

Search e-bay for Toshiba Apple OEM SSDs (they are SATA-2) - I have been very lucky to acquire them for my 2007 Mac mini and 2009 Mac mini server - without worrying about TRIM issues. Of course, max your memory - is always a good idea since you are going to open the mini anyhow.

Good luck.

Sam

-My mini is SATA-I unfortunately, but ssd will still do the work better than hdd.

Which is why I mentioned SATA II, as it is downward compatible and SATA I might be difficult to get.

-Cool that you mention, is that a problem that TRIM is not supported and is that minus for ssd not to have it or ? I won't bother to enable it by third party apps like you did thats why I am asking is it ok to leave it disable.

Once again why I mentioned the Crucial brand as their M4 series and later has it's own built-in 'garbage' collection and cleaning utility, but also fully support TRIM.

The third party software that I and many others used:

https://www.cindori.org/software/trimenabler/

And some more about the subject

http://www.howtogeek.com/222077/how-to-enable-trim-for-third-party-ssds-on-mac-o s-x/

and also

http://www.toptenreviews.com/computers/articles/what-is-trim-support/

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trim_(computing)

to read more about the subject.

HTH

Leo

The Kingstone should be fine.

No, that is not what I was saying. Personally, I have not used the Kingston and thus cannot vouch for it. I merely said there are other options available, when you don't want to use TRIM. The V300 might also have some internal garbage collection, but we have mostly used Crucial and the drives from OWC. The links provided you also with other information so that you can decide what is best for you. I am aware that the product from Micron (Crucial), are not always the cheapest, nor are the ones provided by OWC, neither are the fastest as well. Reliability in our environment is paramount, and as we don't do that much video the speed (transfer rate), has been secondary.

Have a look at http://www.anandtech.com/show/6733/kingston-ssdnow-v300-review for their review of the product.

If you use it, it would likely be to your advantage to use a third party TRIM as suggested above. That should keep everything tidy.

Take care to maintain at least about 10 to 15 GB clean for the OS and for the drive to perform housecleaning.

Leo