So, I purchased a 2012 Mac Mini last week and went to town on it.
It's an i7. I maxed out it with 16GB of RAM, pulled the old HDD out and put in 2 internal 500GB SSDs.
Little did I know that Mojave will not allow for a RAID 0 system boot, so I did some digging.
I installed Mojave on an external disk and upgraded to the latest version.
Then I typed the following in disk utility to create a APFS Raid 1TB RAID 0 Volume:
Diskutil appleRAID create stripe Mini APFS disk0 disk1
Then I used carbon copy cloner to install on the RAID.
Lastly, I start up in single user mode using CMD-S during boot. Then I type this:
/sbin/mount -uw /
touch /System/Library/Extensions/
exit
My disk speeds went from ~300MBS on the old HDD, to 430MBS using the internal SSD, and when I finally got RAID 0 to work, I'm seeing ~750MBS. I have a good backup system in place and most stuff backs up on the cloud, so I'm not too concerned about losing data.
What I am trying to figure out is if there's a way I can just boot up normally without the need for single user mode.
Does anyone know how to accomplish this?
It's an i7. I maxed out it with 16GB of RAM, pulled the old HDD out and put in 2 internal 500GB SSDs.
Little did I know that Mojave will not allow for a RAID 0 system boot, so I did some digging.
I installed Mojave on an external disk and upgraded to the latest version.
Then I typed the following in disk utility to create a APFS Raid 1TB RAID 0 Volume:
Diskutil appleRAID create stripe Mini APFS disk0 disk1
Then I used carbon copy cloner to install on the RAID.
Lastly, I start up in single user mode using CMD-S during boot. Then I type this:
/sbin/mount -uw /
touch /System/Library/Extensions/
exit
My disk speeds went from ~300MBS on the old HDD, to 430MBS using the internal SSD, and when I finally got RAID 0 to work, I'm seeing ~750MBS. I have a good backup system in place and most stuff backs up on the cloud, so I'm not too concerned about losing data.
What I am trying to figure out is if there's a way I can just boot up normally without the need for single user mode.
Does anyone know how to accomplish this?
