RE: Re: [OT] External Hard Disk

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

YAY!

Glad it's not just me that's tried the Mac Mini and thinks it works
great...

I'd like to try an Intel Mac Mini at some point as that has Gigabit
networking built in instead on just 10/100Mbit...

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> tonytofts
> Sent: 03 September 2007 06:26
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: [OT] External Hard Disk
>
> I went down the mini-mac route (thanks to Phil's advise) mainly as it
> was the only OS that correctly put the firewire drives to sleep and
> woke them up successfully. I tried all versions of Windows and they
all
> failed in someway or another.
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> The mini-mac just works brilliantly. And the wake up time is minimal
on
> the drives (i don't use raid)
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> One thing i did find was that when playing back ripped dvd's at times
> it started to stutter. Tried all sorts of things until i finally
> twigged it was the mini-mac screensaver causing the problem. DOH! Been
> fine ever since
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