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Re: [OT] External Hard Disk


  • Subject: Re: [OT] External Hard Disk
  • From: "noel_pilot" <HA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:15:45 -0000

those enclosures list max trnasfer speed as 50mb/s ....noddy moment
but isn't that very low??
Thanks
Noel

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Phil Harris" <phil@...> wrote:
>
> 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.
> >
> > The mini-mac just works brilliantly. And the wake up time is
minimal on
> > the drives (i don't use raid)
> >
> > 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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