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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 If I upgraded to a newer version of the Mini Stack with the SATA drive would I see a noticeable performance boost?
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Probably not. The IDE drive is (most likely) already faster than the Firewire interface, so it's the FW that's the bottleneck.
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No, changing the interface from IDE to SATA isn't going to change anything when you've got the Firewire bottleneck.
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If he had a FW400 interface, then with the latest mini using a FW800 interface, he should she a speed bump.
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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...
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