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SSD Upgrade for Non-Fusion HD

Hi - come here for expert help.

I have a late 2014 Mac Mini (MM) with standard SATA 1 TB HD. It's slow. So I started researching upgrading to SSD to speed things up. I have a few thoughts/questions:

1) What's up with Fusion Drives? I understand it's the mating of traditional HD and SSD to speed things up. So during the SSD upgrade does it only make a traditional HD faster? Are they not a unified system as designed?
2) Somewhere on the webs there is a procedure to "trim" SSD from MM HD. What does this mean? Does this mean separate HD from SSD to create two separate volumes?
3) Can my non-Fusion MM be upgraded? If yes how (links to web pages/products appreciated).
4) I did see an install instruction to remove old traditional HD and replace it with an SSD HD using the SATA connection. Shouldn't this be the way to go for my MM? Is this just as fast? If yes why would adding an additional blade SSD using Apple's propreietary connector be helpful? Is this just a way to add two separate storage options (one SSD HD coupled with SSD Blade?
5) Please recommend SSD SATA drives or Blades that will give me best buck per performance. I realize the bus speeds on my Mini are probably slow - so no overkill. This is what I installed in my Macbook 2014 - 

ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 1TB.​

6) Can I add an traditional SSD Sata Drive along with SSD Blade? Most installs just showing a SSD Blade being installed.

I am clueless. All of the info I read on the webs does not help at all. I went to iFixit (as recommended) and there was no "SSD Instal Kit" for my 2014. There are links to a bunch of Chinese cables to supposedly help with install, but I still don't know if my MM can even have it installed.

Please help with clear answrrs/instructions 

Thanks

Jerry

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Your system can either come with a standard SATA HDD or it can come with a PCIe/MVMe blade SSD.

A Fusion Drive is when you have both of these mounted inside, but the blade SSD is quite small! And is only used as a cache drive for your HDD.

Fusion Drives are old news and only made sense when the cost of the blade SSD’s where so expensive. Today thats less ofd an issue!

So If you have just a HDD drive then you can add in a blade SSD, but you don’t want a small drive instead you want as large as you can afford (500GB ~ 1TB). Here we are going to use it as the boot drive with your OS and Apps, leaving at least 1/4 of the drive empty! So your OS and Apps have some needed elbow room for caching and temp files.

You’ll need this part to add in the needed cable connection for the drive SSD Flex Cable and this SSD OWC Aura Pro X2 SSD as Apple uses a custom connection. Here’s the guide Mac mini Late 2014 PCIe SSD Cable Replacement

I would focus on the blade SSD if you want performance! If your HDD is going then replacing that also works but you won’t get the full ability on what your system can offer as the SATA port will limit you.

My own 2012 system has two 2TB SSD’s drives in my case it only offered SATA ports which limited my options. I use it as a media server holding my music and vids.

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