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Mini: Is the 4200 RPM hard drive a problem?
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<blockquote data-quote="mcsenerd" data-source="post: 95535" data-attributes="member: 9677"><p>Well...you could use an external firewire drive as your boot drive and "upgrade" it that way. I, myself, have replaced the internal drive with a hitachi 7200 RPM 60 GB model. This is not something I'd suggest for the faint of heart however. If you are not comfortable opening, modifying, or generally messing around with other hardware and electronics...you will not feel comfortable doing this either, and I would suggest you just buy a nice external firewire drive. If you should choose to continue...here's some info:</p><p>You can find a video of how to dissasemble the Mini <a href="http://macminiforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38" target="_blank">here.</a> You can find a description and list of the various Mini parts inside <a href="http://www.macworld.com/2005/03/features/insidemini/index.php" target="_blank">here.</a></p><p>You can find some benchmark comparisons <a href="http://eshop.macsales.com/Reviews/Framework.cfm?page=/Benchmarks/12705/minihd.html" target="_blank"> here.</a></p><p></p><p>To upgrade the internal Hard Drive...you'll need to open the Mini (of course), remove the drive cage which holds both the optical drive and the hard drive (You'll also have to remove some tape and the airport and bluetooth antennas if yours comes so equipped), and then you'll have to remove the optical drive from the cage, and then the old hard drive...replace with new one...wash, rinse, and reverse. If you've got some experience working on small electronics...and have the tools to do so (I think that you'll need a long #0 phillips screwdriver for part of the job)...it can be completely done in under 10 minutes start to finish. You'll then need to reinstall Mac OS X on the new drive of course.</p><p></p><p>In short...if you feel like it's something you'd like to do...do some searching. I'm sure you'll find all the information you ever wanted on how to get it done.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mcsenerd, post: 95535, member: 9677"] Well...you could use an external firewire drive as your boot drive and "upgrade" it that way. I, myself, have replaced the internal drive with a hitachi 7200 RPM 60 GB model. This is not something I'd suggest for the faint of heart however. If you are not comfortable opening, modifying, or generally messing around with other hardware and electronics...you will not feel comfortable doing this either, and I would suggest you just buy a nice external firewire drive. If you should choose to continue...here's some info: You can find a video of how to dissasemble the Mini [URL=http://macminiforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38]here.[/URL] You can find a description and list of the various Mini parts inside [URL=http://www.macworld.com/2005/03/features/insidemini/index.php]here.[/URL] You can find some benchmark comparisons [URL=http://eshop.macsales.com/Reviews/Framework.cfm?page=/Benchmarks/12705/minihd.html] here.[/URL] To upgrade the internal Hard Drive...you'll need to open the Mini (of course), remove the drive cage which holds both the optical drive and the hard drive (You'll also have to remove some tape and the airport and bluetooth antennas if yours comes so equipped), and then you'll have to remove the optical drive from the cage, and then the old hard drive...replace with new one...wash, rinse, and reverse. If you've got some experience working on small electronics...and have the tools to do so (I think that you'll need a long #0 phillips screwdriver for part of the job)...it can be completely done in under 10 minutes start to finish. You'll then need to reinstall Mac OS X on the new drive of course. In short...if you feel like it's something you'd like to do...do some searching. I'm sure you'll find all the information you ever wanted on how to get it done. [/QUOTE]
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