[olePigeon]

If you have the early 2009 or earlier model Mac mini, you can replace the wireless card with a mini PCIe SATA & USB card. If an adapter existed to convert mini PCIe to a desktop PCIe slot, you could presumable connect a really nice video card to the Mac mini.

http://www.123macmini.com/forums/vie...c&start=45

If you have a mid 2009 or later model Mac mini, it still has open SATA ports on the motherboard. People just buy a PCI eSATA cover and take the ports off it, then connect them to the SATA ports on the motherboard.

eSATA is a lot cheaper than FireWire 800 if you want to connect a RAID tower or something similar.

[olePigeon]

Ignore the one below me! It's an impostor!

[l008com]

That's what I did to my mac mini. I don't know the "year" name of it, but its the original style case, 9400m model mac mini. I took out the internal drives and and cut a hole in the back. Then I ran two extension cables out the back which plug into a large pc case that has two 3.5" hard drives. It also has a bunch of drives that are on firewire bridge boards, which also plug into the mini. Unfortunately it's not quite as reliable as I would have hoped. Every few months or so, it locks up solid for no reason. It's too bad there isn't a better solution for me.

But I don't even use my wifi, I'd love to replace it with more sata instead of firewire. Would that work in my mini? a card that supports sata with port multiplication would mean bye bye firewire. Not that firewire is bad but, for this sort of thing, direct "internal" connections are always best.

[olePigeon]

I thought about running it through one of the fan vents instead of cutting a hole.