[bmn]

I think my title just about says it all...but in any event, I have a spare latest gen Mac Mini, can I use it for time machine, perhaps by booting up the machine in drive mode? What cable would I need to have for this to work? Any complications I should know about?

cheers.

bmn,

[ibook_steve]

All you need is a FireWire or USB cable. But that's one expensive, relatively small backup drive that's a waste of a computer! Just get a drive enclosure for $20 to $40 and drop a huge SATA 3.5" drive in there.

Steve

[legacyb4]

Or, you put Leopard on it and have it be a Time Machine share for all the computers on your network (not to mention Bittorrent client!).

[bmn]

Would you mind explaining the premise of a time machine share?

[Big Mac]

He's saying use it as a network drive and use it for Time Machine on multiple computers. I don't know if that makes much sense if you're talking about the mini's internal because it's so small, however.

[iDaver]

If you really don't need the mini, sell it on eBay or somewhere and buy a nice big hard drive for about one quarter what you could get for it.