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

[Hal]

I just got the NewerTech version of this today, and it works great. I  
dropped in my spare Seagate 120GB drive and hooked it up to my Cube.  
So far, so good.

It's really quiet and the kit was only $99 at OWC. It has 3 Firewire  
and 3 downstream USB ports.

It's almost small enough to fit under the Cube, but it's a little too  
tall. It would hit the cables plugged into it.

-Hal

On Jul 21, 2005, at 5:19 PM, Brett Pearce wrote:

> 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. :)
>>>