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Format the external disk for MacOS and then use Carbon Copy to create a bootable clone of the internal drive with a recovery partition.
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Get Carbon Copy Cloner - I think you can use it for free for a month which is plenty of time for your needs (although I suggest you purchase it anyway, I use it regularly on all my Macs). A cheap external may be slower than the T3 in my example however. loading a large file from the internal hard drive will take about 4x longer than a fast external USB SSD. But the stock drives on a new Mini clock around 100MB/sec when new - this may degrade with age. I don't use the Photos app so I can't really say what the bottleneck is. I've been booting and running my own 2012 i7 Mini this way for going on six years now, from the day I first took it out of the box. When that time comes, having an external drive makes it easy to just unplug the drive from the Mini, and plug it into your new Mac for additional fast storage. I'd suggest either a Samsung t3 or t5, or something like this:Įventually, you're going to move on to another Mac. You'll get about 80-85% of the speed you would see from an internally-installed SATA SSD, but without any of the trouble you might run into doing the installation.
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You should see reads in the 420+mbps range and writes 300-350mbps (depending on drive and size). Speeds will jump up to about 4-4.5x those of the internal drive.
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Put the OS, apps, and basic accounts on it. Set it up to become "the external boot drive". Fastest, easiest way - without prying open the Mini - buy an external USB3 SSD drive, and plug it in.