well...after applying the fix the negotiation speed link still 1.5 ...
yeah you are not the first one that can't boost to sata II.
That 2010 mini is tricky it is picky about 4gb ram sticks and ssds.
I have found samsung ram and samsung ssds series 800 or series 810/470 both sata II are consistently the best in that mini. I buy upgrade and then sell minis on ebay for a side business
> I have done a few hundred since 2006.
The 2010 mini was the most picky mini for ram and ssds.
Now it is a good piece of gear once you got it modded right. Here is why
It can run;
leopard = (with a hack)
snow = fully supported
lion = fully supported
mountain lion = the developers i know say it works
windows 7 = with bootcamp parallels or vmWare fusion
windows 8 = the developers i know say yes
linux = yes
plus has a dvd/rom drive to load software. even though it is a bit slow it will do all that.
Back to you, the ssd drive at sata I is still fast for iops and that is the most important part.
you get close to 80 % of sata II on the iops . on the clone you get 55% of sata II speed.
the first thumbnail shows an internal sata III ssd
(mushkin 240gb enhanced chronos deluxe) in a 2011 mac mini at sata III speeds.
the key iops are random 4k 222mb/s write and random 4k read 75mb/s
second thumbnail shows a samsung 810 series in a 2010 mac mini at sata II speed.
you can see the key iops (4x random write and read) are 75 mb/s and 9 mb/s
you can download xbench and see what you get at disk test only you will be close to my sata II numbers of 75mb/s and 9mb/s.
third shot shows link speed on the 2010. speed is sata II.
