FireWire for 75% Better Mac mini Disk Performance

Posted by timothy on Monday May 16, 2005 @01:26PM from the outside-in dept.

peterdaly writes "As a proud new owner of a Mac mini, I quickly discovered the internal hard drive performance was so pathetic compared to what I was used to that I needed to do something about it ... preferably on the cheap. I ended up trying a FireWire attached storage enclosure and using an older 80GB drive I had in my closet from a dead PC. My mini got about a 75 percent disk performance increase for about $50 (or $100 if you need a drive). Here is a benchmark of before and after as well as information about my research and upgrade. If you already have at least 512MB RAM, this may be the best performance bang for your buck if you're looking for your mini to be faster and more responsive."

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Too bad by thundercatslair · 2005-05-16 13:38 · Score: 0, Flamebait

It seems that to make the mini even worth using is to spend lots of money on upgrades.
Re:And if you want something really cool by stuntpope · 2005-05-17 00:01 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Did you even follow the MicroNet link? you need to drop your price about $500. Your point three should be: worth it.