[john120165]

I have a late Mac min 6.1. When I got it in 2012 boot up time was a under 30 seconds. Now its like 3.5 minutes. Appreciate its heading for 7 years old now but if I threw an SSD in there instead of the 500gb hard disk, would it be worth it? Or should I wait a month and see what apple bring out in September?

[Just_Me_D]

Unless you’ve upgraded the OS from the one that came preinstalled or have a corrupted/malfunctioning hard drive, it should still boot up quickly. As for your questions, try installing an SSD drive, if you can find one at a reasonable price.

[tai4de2]

I have a late 2014 Mini (the most recent one available before the announcements this week 10/30/2018).

To say this machine is slow would be a massive understatement. Disk benchmarks on the built-in drive were like 80Mbps. I went out and found what is probably the last Thunderbolt2 drive enclosure in my area, and put a current model SSD in it.

It's like a whole new machine. Disk benchmarks are close to 400Mbps -- a 4x improvement. It boots quickly and runs nicely. I'm not sure I need a new Mini now.