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Replacing PC with Mini
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<blockquote data-quote="herbal" data-source="post: 303874" data-attributes="member: 25260"><p>Howdy. I'm after a bit of advice from all you experts out there.</p><p>I have a mini 1.5 core solo/512/60Gb/Combo running Tiger at work and an old P3 900/512/250Gb/DVD-RW running XP at home. I have the chance to buy the mini cheap, and would like to replace the PC with it. The only problem is the small HDD and lack of a DVD burner on the mini, as all i really use it for is downloading and burning.</p><p></p><p>AFAICS, I have the following options:</p><p></p><p>1/ Buy an external HDD and burner for the mini</p><p>or</p><p>2/ Buy an enclosure and use the HDD and/or burner (Sony 16x dual-layer) from the PC with the mini. The HDD is a Western Digital IDE 250Gb, 7200 rpm and it contains around 100Gb of music & video.</p><p></p><p>My questions are </p><p>1) Which is the best budget option?</p><p>2) Can i transplant the HDD without losing the data?</p><p>3) Will using a 7200 rpm drive as my boot drive increase the performance of the mini significantly?</p><p>4) Will the mini be significantly faster at video transcoding than the PC?</p><p></p><p>Cheers</p><p></p><p>H</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="herbal, post: 303874, member: 25260"] Howdy. I'm after a bit of advice from all you experts out there. I have a mini 1.5 core solo/512/60Gb/Combo running Tiger at work and an old P3 900/512/250Gb/DVD-RW running XP at home. I have the chance to buy the mini cheap, and would like to replace the PC with it. The only problem is the small HDD and lack of a DVD burner on the mini, as all i really use it for is downloading and burning. AFAICS, I have the following options: 1/ Buy an external HDD and burner for the mini or 2/ Buy an enclosure and use the HDD and/or burner (Sony 16x dual-layer) from the PC with the mini. The HDD is a Western Digital IDE 250Gb, 7200 rpm and it contains around 100Gb of music & video. My questions are 1) Which is the best budget option? 2) Can i transplant the HDD without losing the data? 3) Will using a 7200 rpm drive as my boot drive increase the performance of the mini significantly? 4) Will the mini be significantly faster at video transcoding than the PC? Cheers H [/QUOTE]
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