mac mini HD

[daniel.sneed]

Is macMini Hd 2.5 standard HD or else ?

When the times of UB DP will come, I shall take one.
I'm wondering about its slow HD.
Will my Hitachi 60Go/7200rpm sitting now in my 667 Titanium fit in this new box ?

Thankx for advices.

dAn

[giles117]

From all the dissassembly reports the new mini takes a standard 3.5" hard Drive

[daniel.sneed]

Hi Giles117

Are you shure about size ?

Here's what I have red there :
http://www.macintouch.com/macmini/review.html#disp

"The Mac Mini uses a 2.5-inch laptop hard drive, like an iBook or a PowerBook, and these drives are not as fast as the 3.5-inch drives used in Power Macs, iMacs and eMacs. Not surprisingly, the Mini fell behind the desktop systems in our benchmark tests, performing on par with an iBook G4 in disk performance."

This web site says changing HD in Macmini is very picky
What do you think ?

Thanks

[papageno]

From all the dissassembly reports the new mini takes a standard 3.5" hard Drive

Wrong.
Standard 2,5 inch it is.

Can you post link to a disassembly report where it says 3,5 inch?

...actually, dont waste time. It is 2,5 inch. I have first hand experience.

[D_Gordon]

Hi Giles117
http://www.macintouch.com/macmini/review.html#disp

"The Mac Mini uses a 2.5-inch laptop hard drive, like an iBook or a PowerBook, and these drives are not as fast as the 3.5-inch drives used in Power Macs, iMacs and eMacs. Not surprisingly, the Mini fell behind the desktop systems in our benchmark tests, performing on par with an iBook G4 in disk performance."

Right. Lap top HD size.
But just rememeber that review is about the old Mac minis G4.

The Mac mini Intel are much faster (3 or 4 times with Universal apps) and It has the same 2.5" HD but SATA this time, which can bring a better performance also.

Regards,

Gordon