[Cube] Re: The Mini is so... small

[Brett Pearce]

For the price of those drives you might be able to get one of these:

http://www.micronet.com/General/prodList.asp?CatID=99&Cat=Product

This leaves you with your original drive in the Mini and extra USB & 
Firewire ports. Of course it adds to the height of the Mini but I know 
I would go this route if it were me.

BP

On Jul 19, 2005, at 3:27 PM, Hal wrote:

> Fair point. In the meantime, they do make 7200rpm, 8MB cache 
> laptop-style drives... ;-)
>
> On Jul 19, 2005, at 2:34 PM, Riba wrote:
>
>>
>> On 2005.07.19, at 18:43, phoeniX wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hal writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Don' forget the slower drive performance ceiling on the Mini, as it 
>>>> uses laptop hard drives.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>   A minor sticking point, perhaps, but not for very long. I expect 
>>> we'll see high-speed (well beyong the current 4800/5400 range) 
>>> notebook drives in the not-too-distant future, with storage size 
>>> rivaling that of most desktops. It's just a matter of time.
>>>
>>
>> I'm hoping that hard drives as we know them will finally die, and get 
>> replaced with solid-state devices. I'm betting that Apple will be the 
>> first one to put such devices in the mass market product, as always. 
>> :)
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BP