FireWire for 75% Better Mac mini Disk Performance 533
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."
Re:And if you want something really cool (Score:5, Funny)
A thoughtful analysis if ever I read one.
About time... (Score:1, Funny)
In addition, during this file transfer, Safari will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even SubEthaEdit is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on my Mac Mini, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac Mini that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Mac Mini's faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Mac Mini is a superior machine.
Mac Mini addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac Mini over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
This just in.. (Score:5, Funny)
Mac user upgrades slow standard hard drive to a faster one and then gets better performance. A PC user was overheard saying "no shit".
Re:And if you want something really cool (Score:5, Funny)
Can you buy two of those and run them in RAID-1?
Re:About time... (Score:2, Funny)
My similar story was rejected (Score:5, Funny)
Funniest part of the the article, dude pulled out something he had pitched in his closet and it is faster then the drive in his brand new machine. Half the Mac diehards rate that as insightful, the other half make excuses and try to justify why the standard Mini drive is so slow.
Re:not surprising (Score:2, Funny)
Think of it as male contraception.
Re:I have nothing to do with that product... (Score:4, Funny)
Don't worry; I'm not so paranoid to think that you're involved in an elaborate conspiracy to sell a hard drive enclosure! Any true conspiracy theorist can tell you that you'd need at least a black helicopter or two for that...
Perhaps, so as to avoid future misunderstandings, the two of us can start a conspiracy to get the W3C to add a <joke> tag to the next draft of HTML...
Why? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:And if you want something really cool (Score:4, Funny)
Lets make it a diagram.
Care scale
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- -- Care a great deal
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- -- Don't care at all
In order for the phrase 'I could not care less' to be true, it must not be possible to move any further down the above scale.
Thus, you must be at the bottom.
Re:And if you want something really cool (Score:3, Funny)
Re:About time... (Score:5, Funny)
Here is a slashdot counterpart:
Re:And if you want something really cool (Score:2, Funny)
If you're not willing to pay extra just for looks, why did you buy a Mac to begin with?
Re:not surprising (Score:3, Funny)
Re:My similar story was rejected (Score:2, Funny)
Maybe if you had put the 9800XT in an external enclosure?
Re:This is news? (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, wait, I guess you can get the Airport card as an option...
Re:And if you want something really cool (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Too bad (Score:3, Funny)
If by "people who soup up cars" you mean "ricers", then yes.
OMG ROFLMAO KIKI I just overclocked my AMD K400 to 12 Parsecs!1!!!! Zerg Rush!