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Anyone know if the 80 gig HD in the mac mini is 5400 rpm ? and does it have 2 meg or 8 meg cache?
shift said:Hey guys!! I am on my Mac Mini as we speak. I did upgrade my original Mini 40 giger to a 80 gig. I am not sure what RPM is, but its a sweet ***** unit!! Very very quite, smaller then my external burner and it does not even get warm. I finally figure out how to get on the web and this was the 1st place I came to.
-I am still trying to get used to the Mac format. Some little things I really have to get use to like no scroll mouse and Safari is windows explorer. lol
Btw,, how to I inlarge my view of this site? I click that green button on the top of the webpage but its only about half the size of my 17" monitor. Can I get a bigger view while on the web?? If so how? I clicked on View and there seems not to be noting to enlage my browserr to full view.
shift said:Really 4200 ewwwwwwwwwwwwww. Now I know why it was slow at ripping. Here is my report:
I feel backing up dvds on a mac is a slow process and can take over 1.3 hours.
This is a 3-step process using: Mac The Ripper, DvD2oneX and Toast (or other burning tool)
Here is the time frame on a 7.22 gig movie:
Mac the Ripper - Rips full movie at 25 minutes into HD folder 7.22 gigs
DvD2OneX - Copies, compress FULL 7.22 movie into another folder in 35 minutes at Consistand MODE.
Toast (Burner) - Depending what speed disk you use, lets just say 4x dvdR about 14 minutes.
Grand total time wasted: 1 hr and 14 minutes.
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While on a PC:
using shrink: about 25 minutes
Nero to Burn: 15 minutes
Total time wasted: 40 minutes.
(My pc is a 1ghz Duron w/ 20 gig hd LAPTOP by Compaq).
Well you choose?
I will do dvd video backup on my PC. As for my mac I will be doing Video editing.
Untill Mac comes out w/ something like Shrink from the PC. PC is my hand of choice to do my dvd backups. Hurry some one make a SHRINK for Mac's
shift said:Really 4200 ewwwwwwwwwwwwww. Now I know why it was slow at ripping. Here is my report:
I feel backing up dvds on a mac is a slow process and can take over 1.3 hours.
This is a 3-step process using: Mac The Ripper, DvD2oneX and Toast (or other burning tool)
Here is the time frame on a 7.22 gig movie:
Mac the Ripper - Rips full movie at 25 minutes into HD folder 7.22 gigs
DvD2OneX - Copies, compress FULL 7.22 movie into another folder in 35 minutes at Consistand MODE.
Toast (Burner) - Depending what speed disk you use, lets just say 4x dvdR about 14 minutes.
Grand total time wasted: 1 hr and 14 minutes.
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While on a PC:
using shrink: about 25 minutes
Nero to Burn: 15 minutes
Total time wasted: 40 minutes.
(My pc is a 1ghz Duron w/ 20 gig hd LAPTOP by Compaq).
Well you choose?
I will do dvd video backup on my PC. As for my mac I will be doing Video editing.
Untill Mac comes out w/ something like Shrink from the PC. PC is my hand of choice to do my dvd backups. Hurry some one make a SHRINK for Mac's
dtravis7 said:DVD Shrink is a very FAST program that is for sure. I think that is part of it. It Flys on my P4 2.53Ghz. I tried Mac The Ripper on my G4 500 and it took maybe 45 minutes but for a 500 G4 that is really not that bad at all. I wish they would do a OSX version of DVD Shrink. It's the best program I have used to backup my DVD's.
shift said:I think what I am going to try to do is install VPC w/ Windows2000 and install Shrink. I wonder how it would do. hummmm..... :spook:
shift said:Also by the looks of that link above, there is not even a 5400 or 4400 rpm HD they sale. Are you guys sure that the Mac Mini only comes w/ the 4400 rpm hard drive (HD)??