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FireWire for 75% Better Mac mini Disk Performance
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."
You mean the MacMini isn't *perfect*?
C ...and...elegance...I got nothing.
But...but...Apple is the greatest designer of computers EVER! It's so elegant, and...industrial design...and...elegance...and...iLife...and...RIS
It seems that to make the mini even worth using is to spend lots of money on upgrades.
he said recent macs can boot from firewire disks
this is true
he never said, however, that older macs can't, nor did he say that only recent macs can. good job reading the post, retardo
With Disk Utility, it's just a matter of dragging the disks into a RAID set, and you're done.
Yeah, the whole mouse being the mouse button you don't have many options
The amount he cares right now is none. Fuck you are a moron.
ah that makes complete sense, cares none. and fuck you biaaatch
The Mac is the original Queer Eye for the Computer Guy. Having been a computer professional for 15 years I can proudly say I can count on one hand the number of the things I've used. The are expensive, slow, and I find the UI to be extremely cumbersome. The only 2 decent macs I ever used were my friend's Mac 512 back in 85 and the IIfx in 91.
If you bought a Mini for any reason, then you're a fucking idiot. Oh wait, that's you! Ha ha, you use a Mac Mini. Loser.
.... came real close to buying a Mac Mini, and didn't due to performance reasons...
Of course the "large/ugly/beige/boring generic PC" will operate much slower if at all, in a relatively short time, after it is infested with a number to malware programs and is zombiefied to send out 10000 spam e-mails every day.
All theory is gray
Did you even follow the MicroNet link? you need to drop your price about $500. Your point three should be: worth it.