HOW TO CHECK STORAGE ON MAC MINI WINDOWS

This necessitated a way to bring a secondary SATA connection outside of the Mac Mini.

We also require an environment with a stable main system drive, letting us benchmark SSDs and other 2.5' drives as secondary drives.

While an off the shelf Mac Mini has the potential to work as a test bed for StorageReview, it lacks certain capabilities without aftermarket support. On the Thunderbolt side, site editors felt it was important to have a stable and consistent platform for testing, with the same rigor we apply to other reviews. StorageReview will be including Mac-based benchmarks on all client SSDs going forward using this platform.

HOW TO CHECK STORAGE ON MAC MINI WINDOWS

While most SSD buyers are Windows users, there is still a strong base of Mac owners who want to ensure an SSD is compatible with their system before going through the agony of upgrading and finding out the hard way that the drive either doesn’t work, or performs at a level that is not expected. StorageReview has added a new Mac Mini to our test lab for enhanced compatibility testing for 2.5' consumer SSDs and benchmarking new Thunderbolt storage solutions.

How to check storage on mac mini