Review on Corsair DDR3 1333 10600 CMSA8GX3M1A1333C9 by Jordan Epps

No compatibility issues with 2012 Mac Mini. Works very well. Corsair is well known in the PC enthusiast community. I have been using Corsair products for many years and have never had any problems. Great company, great products. I went from 8GB of OEM memory to this one. Subjectively, the loading times have been slightly shortened. It also seems to help with the audio player that uses RAM for heavy buffering. Upgrading from 8GB to 16GB didn't change performance, but it seemed to help a little. I think. 8GB to 16GB probably won't be worth it for most. The jump from 4GB to 16 will almost certainly be more noticeable. If you have an older Mac and want to continue using it, switching to an SSD will result in a much more noticeable performance improvement compared to upgrading your RAM. Much faster boot times, program launches, file transfers, anything that relies heavily on disk read/write performance. Hard drive kits for this Mac are available from a number of vendors. With a little patience, a YouTube video or two and an SSD will change your life. Unfortunately, the current Mac generation won't be as transformative with a faster processor and architecture, but it's enough to de-stress the Mac before replacing the Mac with a newer model. . The kit I use allows you to stack two drives on top of each other. Samsung is now the system drive and the original Apple 5400 RPM drive is the data drive. I did this a few years ago when the TRIM feature was not automatically enabled for drives from other manufacturers. I don't think so, so don't worry about the SSD not having proper file management and maintenance. This assumes you're running Catalina, the latest version of macOS officially supported on the 2012 Mac Mini. Additionally, there are no stability or heat issues with the secondary drive. To check the TRIM status, click the Apple icon in the top left corner of your screen > About This Mac > System Report > SATA/SATA Express. Above you can see a disk tree. Highlight the SSD and look for TRIM support. He will either say yes or no. If yes, fine. If for some reason it says no, open a terminal, type "sudo trimforce enable" and type it. You may need to enter your desktop password.