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Mac Mini hard drive options
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Raleigh, NC, USA
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I'm going to order a mini tomorrow. Are any of the available hard drives any faster than the stock 60GB drive? I remember with the original minis, some of the drives were faster than others.
Justin
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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Nope, all Intel Mac Mini's sport 5400rpm HD's. There is absolutely zero chance of a "silent" 7200rpm HD upgrade.
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You might want to look into the miniStack V2 from Newer Technology. By far, it is the nicest solution I have seen for the Mac mini.  I am going to be buying a Mac mini very soon with this product from them.
(Last edited by Macintosh Sauce; Oct 20, 2006 at 12:03 AM.
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I have one of these, I put a 250 GB hraddrive in it, it's GREAT. I put the mini on top and they are like the best buddies, fit like a glove. I also use part of the drive as my backup from my other PCs via network.
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If your not afraid to use a putty knife, you can open up your mini and replace the stock fujitsu 2.5in 5400RPM notebook HDD with a higher quality Hitachi or Seagate (my personal favorite) 7200.1 series 7200RPM HDDs.
Its pretty straight forward, I have personally performed this on two intel minis -- order a OEM Seagate or Hitachi drive from Newegg, sharpen the edges of a new, clean putty knife. Flip the mini over, carefully open it up, then carefully de-route the airport and bluetooth antennas, un-attach the speaker wire plug, un-screw the IR microboard, then un-screw the 6 optical drive screws (2 on each side), slide out the optical drive, un-screw the 4 screws holding down the black tray (lower right screw odd sized, other 3 look the same), then pull the tray straight up, now you have access to the 4 HDD screws. Remove the 4 HDD screws and remove the existing HDD, remove the anti-vibration spongey stuff, place the anti-vibration spungy stuff on the new drive, and re-assemble in reverse order. Importantly though; the Intel Mac Mini uses a SATA HDD and the PowerPC Mac Mini used an ATA/100 HDD.
Oh, and while you have it disassembled to this point, you might want to pop in some more RAM too since you have to take the intel mini this much apart to access the SO-DIMM slots.
The intel mini's are compact inside, but if you take your time and organize the screws, it'll be a breeze! 
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