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

[Brett Pearce]

I really like the idea adding additional USB/Firewire ports to an 
external drive - surprised nobody had done it till now.

So if I were to make something that raised the Cube up enough that it 
would fit under it? See any problems with the heat from it going up 
into the Cube?

BP

On Jul 21, 2005, at 6:20 PM, Hal wrote:

> 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. :)
>>>>
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BP