RE: Re: [OT] External Hard Disk

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Depends what you're wanting to achieve but you'll only get about
9Mbytes/sec
over a 100Mbit network connection anyway.

I get about 17Mbytes/sec between any drive and the Mac Mini and that's more
than fast enough to handle about half a dozen simultaneously streamed
movies.

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> noel_pilot
> Sent: 03 September 2007 21:16
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: [OT] External Hard Disk
>
> 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
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> > > 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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