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PHoynak · Mar 6, 2009, 09:49 AM

I currently use a Mac Mini 1.66 Mhz Core Duo with 2 gigs of ram, I boot from a Mini Stack 500 GB IDE drive. If I upgraded to a newer version of the Mini Stack with the SATA drive would I see a noticeable performance boost?

Jacke · Mar 6, 2009, 10:48 AM

Probably not. The IDE drive is (most likely) already faster than the Firewire interface, so it's the FW that's the bottleneck.

mduell · Mar 6, 2009, 03:48 PM

No, changing the interface from IDE to SATA isn't going to change anything when you've got the Firewire bottleneck.

chichow · Mar 6, 2009, 04:21 PM

If he had a FW400 interface, then with the latest mini using a FW800 interface, he should she a speed bump.

Jacke · Mar 7, 2009, 04:26 AM

Originally Posted by chichow

If he had a FW400 interface, then with the latest mini using a FW800 interface, he should she a speed bump.

And if he made a whole in the chassis and pulled out the HD SATA cable to an eSATA drive he would see a bigger speed bump. But that wasn't the question...