![]() I’ll go take a look at Howard’s page you referenced again…just in case I missed something…but I been doing Macs a long time and was a sysadmin in my working life so while it’s possible, even likely that I missed something…if I did it hasn’t occurred to me yet. Command R again and installed to the SSD but did not reformat it again before installing. Figured it might be some sort of EFI or whatever issue so did a command R start and installed later Monterey on internal, then selected SSD again as startup and it failed. Sys Prefs allows selection of the SSD as the boot device but it doesn’t boot and instead boots internal. Downloaded the full Monterey installer (internal spinning drive is up to date Monterey on late 2014 mini) and installed Monterey to the SSD which is connected to the USB port since I don’t have a TB2 to USBC/TB3 adapter. Yep…formatted the disk new as GUID and then a single APFS volume. It doesn’t really seem worth it to buy a new mini for 5is purpose, but I would like better performance when booting it and for the occasional login via Screens 4. Is there a trick here to make it work that I missed? The only thing I haven’t tried is a recovery boot and reinstall on the SSD…but I figure if the full installer doesn’t work tht won’t either. It should boot from external USB according to google search but it isn’t working. System Prefs sees it and lets it be selected as startup disk…it just doesn’t actually boot from it. ![]() Downloaded the Monterey installer, nuked the SSD completely, formatted as APFS, and installed Monterey on the SSD…still doesn’t boot from it, looks like the mini thinks awhile and then gives up and boots from the internal spinner. Tried a full CCC clone including macOS to the SSD, selected as boot drive, doesn’t work. Backup performance is a lot better so I figured I would boot from the SSD as well…but that’s been problematic. So…bought another Samsung T7 for my 2014 mini since while it is slow on the spinning drive it’s only a server but the throughput to the external spinning drive is really slow…this server is essentially a destination for my roll your own TM replacement with CCC for laptops. (TB3 drives can be used with an adapter, but the adapter won’t pass power, so any drive connected that way must have its own power brick.) A Thunderbolt drive will perform very well, but you may have problems finding a TB2 drive these days. A USB drive will perform a little slower than an internal SATA SSD, but will be far far easier to install. Not too hard to do as long as you’re careful: Mac mini Late 2014 - iFixitĪnd, as wrote, you could just get an external SSD. If you want to install/repalce the internal drive yourself, iFixit has a good set of repair guides. ![]() It won’t perform as fast as the Apple SSD, but maybe it will be good enough. If your Mac doesn’t have a hard drive in it, you could install a 2.5" SATA SSD. I would love to know what the technical reason is for this stated requirement, because it doesn’t make sense to me. They say it in the context of “designed for APFS”. The only drives OWC have require an upgrade to at least High Sierra (which will render Server app useless). ![]()
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