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bob:
With 4 gigs, I wouldn't go past Catalina.
 
If you did a restore from the internet it would go all the way back to Yosemite (10.10) and appear to be really fast (and way out of security updates).
If it's an original disk you might have an older recovery on it as well.
See this article:
https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/use-macos-recovery-on-an-intel-based-mac-mchl338cf9a8/12.0/mac/12.0

You could either update from there or make an external USB installer stick. See here:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372

You absolutely should put in a SSD. The difference on a Mac of that vintage will be staggering.
Check this for details. It even looks like that model supports 6gb/sec sata.
https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/mac-mini-aluminum-unibody-faq/how-to-upgrade-hard-drive-aluminum-unibody-mac-mini.html

bob:
BTW MC works just fine on a 2007 vintage 24" iMac (replaced the HD with a SSD) running High Sierra (10.13) including video.

Zhillsguy:

--- Quote from: bob on December 13, 2021, 11:31:48 am ---BTW MC works just fine on a 2007 vintage 24" iMac (replaced the HD with a SSD) running High Sierra (10.13) including video.

--- End quote ---

Now that's encouraging, thanks Bob and to all. Yes, I did recovery from the internet to Yosemite, and it is much better, but still stutters audio when scrolling playlists. I tried to update the os, but none of the links I found on Apple's site worked in Safari, only goes white screen, but no matter at this point. I may put an SSD in it and keep it, but not looking forward to the task for this unit.

I haven't been able to get 4 channels out of the Scarlett 6i6 in windows since 1709(?), so it's linux or Core Audio for this setup. I'll update the thread if I move forward with the ssd swap....

blgentry:
If you decide to do an SSD upgrade, it's MUCH easier if you buy a small external enclosure for the drive so that you can temporarily have both the SSD and the old spinning drive connected at the same time.

Once you have both set up, you can use SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the spinning drive to the SSD.  Then you do the actual swap and pull the old drive out and replace it with the SSD.  If all goes well, you just reboot and *boom* your are up and running on the SSD with all of your original stuff exactly where it was when you started.

Macsales.com (Other World Computing) sells nice little packages with good SSD drives, inexpensive external enclosures (like and extra $10 for the enclosure) and a little set of tools for the weird screws and fasteners on many macs.

I've used their kits several times and have had great success with them.

Brian.

bob:
Agree with Brian.
I've updated our 2012 Mini at work a bunch of times, I have archived SSD's back to 10.7 for it all the way through 11.1.
Until pretty recently all of our Mac builds were made on it (it was one of those models with an i7 and we added 16GB memory).
It's pretty straightforward to take apart and switch out drives.
There are good guides at iFixit for doing it.

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