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I recently bought a MacMini2014 from eBay. The stock hard drive was clicking and it was really slow so I swapped it out with an upgraded SSD. (Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA). I used online recovery to instal MacOS - so there was no data or partition information carried over from the old stock drive. It takes about 25 seconds before I see the Apple logo - and then a further minute before it fully boots up. I feel like I’m missing something obvious here but all my searches thus far haven’t yielded a solution.

Hi From what your speed test result ad what you’ve already tried is telling me ,it sound like you have bad RAM Not to worry though I would try reseating it and if no luck plug one stick in at a time and see if you can find out what one is bad through process of elimination Hopefully this answers your question If not, keep on going with the info! Thanks:-)