I ran right out and bought one of the new rev Mac Minis and a Samsung 830 SSD to install in it. I used a USB/SATA dongle and CCC to clone the main partition and the Recovery HD partition. When I ...

Moving the USB SSD to internal you'd get a bit more performance out of it. The 2012 mini supports SATA III which is 6Gbit/s vs USB3 at 5Gbit/s. You can also get a kit to house two drives in the mini ...

Photos for the Mac is a storage hog. It likes to read and write from its storage with abandon, no matter how much memory you have. Because a Photos library can become quite large—mine apparently ...