Hello,
I currently have a 2012 Mac Mini with the 500Gb HDD, and I’m thinking about upgrading to the new base Mini with the 128Gb SSD. I use a 500Gb external drive on my current Mini which I use with Time Machine to back up every so often, but with the new one I’d want it to use it in conjunction with the 128Gb SSD, giving me 628Gb of storage (and no backup).
Hope I explained that well enough...Is this easy to do? I’m guessing I’d have to wipe the external HDD, then connect the old and new Mini’s together, and would Migration Assistant do the rest? Presumably the OS and all the usual apps would reside on the SSD, and anything else that didn’t fit would go on the 5400 spinner?
I’ve only ever bought a new Mac with a bigger HDD than the previous one, hence my question...
Thanks in advance.
I currently have a 2012 Mac Mini with the 500Gb HDD, and I’m thinking about upgrading to the new base Mini with the 128Gb SSD. I use a 500Gb external drive on my current Mini which I use with Time Machine to back up every so often, but with the new one I’d want it to use it in conjunction with the 128Gb SSD, giving me 628Gb of storage (and no backup).
Hope I explained that well enough...Is this easy to do? I’m guessing I’d have to wipe the external HDD, then connect the old and new Mini’s together, and would Migration Assistant do the rest? Presumably the OS and all the usual apps would reside on the SSD, and anything else that didn’t fit would go on the 5400 spinner?
I’ve only ever bought a new Mac with a bigger HDD than the previous one, hence my question...
Thanks in advance.