08-29-2013, 05:51 PM
bwicklander wrote:
...Ram stick error on my MBP- my mac mini just took a dump.
New macs don't last like they used to last. Bummer.
Bad/cheap RAM?
Took a dump how?
Anyway, when I first got my mini last year, I used migration assistant to bring the old stuff from the previous mac, on which I had previously used migration assistant to get the old stuff from the mac before that, and so on...it was apparently finally too much, and I started getting hangs and other weird behaviors. After futzing around, I finally moved the native hard drive to an external, put a fresh copy of ML on a new SSD internal, made sure everything was working well, then made a somewhat more selective migration to the new drive.
Works like a dream now. It's a quad-core i7, 16 GB. Been resisting the impulse to spring for another, matched SATA 3.0 SSD and have a dual-channel internal drive setup for those >1000 MB/sec read/writes - but not sure I want to mess with my current happy setup for the sake of a higher number on a drive test.