Mac mini upgrade

My Mac mini appears to have survived last night’s hard disk upgrade I performed following this guide. The whole process was quite straightforward and opening the case was relatively easy (using a putty knife). I replaced the sluggish internal Seagate 4200 spin drive with a 5400 and the difference was truly outstanding. I now have a normal, responsive Mac! Recommended for any Mac mini owner with a 4200 drive, as long as you are prepared to void your warranty that is!

chris on February 23rd 2006 in Uncategorized

3 Responses to “Mac mini upgrade”

  1. Bruce Elgort responded on 24 Feb 2006 at 9:31 am #

    Chris,

    Which drive did you wind up putting in your mini? I am considering doing the same. I love the mini except for the sluggsih hard drive. :-)
    How much RAM did you put in yours?

  2. Chris responded on 25 Feb 2006 at 7:03 pm #

    I put in an 80 GB Seagate Momentus 5400.2; the stock drive in my mini was the same model but the 4200 version. I held off putting in some RAM to see what the performance benefit was simply from upgrading the hard disk, probably 40-50% increase I’d say! Having said that, next week I’ll throw in 1GB of RAM to complete the job, should give the mini another little boost.

    BTW, I really enjoy your ‘Taking Notes’ podcasts! Hopefully I can now use GarageBand on the mini to get in to some podcasting myself.

  3. [jc] responded on 01 Mar 2006 at 9:05 pm #

    Well. I was about to go the 5400 drive option and up to 1GB. Today’s announcement of the new intel mac mini has made me pause for a moment.

    Who wants to buy my g4 mac mini so I can buy the new 4x faster/up to 2GB/5400 80GigHD/iLife06/FrontRow/RemoteControl/DL DVD etc..mac mini?