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| Why aren't 3TB drives offered as an option on the Mac Mini like they are on the iMacs? Doesn't make sense. |
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mdgm
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| talltodd wrote: | | Why aren't 3TB drives offered as an option on the Mac Mini like they are on the iMacs? Doesn't make sense. |
On the contrary it makes perfect sense. Mac Minis take 2.5" hard drives whereas the iMac fits a 3.5" hard drive.
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Bandit Bill
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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| talltodd wrote: | | Why aren't 3TB drives offered as an option on the Mac Mini like they are on the iMacs? Doesn't make sense. |
Fair question.
As mdgm mentioned, the iMac uses a 3.5" (desktop) drive, the mini uses a 2.5" (laptop) drive
Currently there are no 3TB 2.5" hard drives. As far as I know 1TB is the largest 2.5" drive currently available and even at that, it runs at 5,400 RPM. You can get 750GB 2.5" 7,200RPM drives.
2.5" drives always lag behind 3.5" drives as far as storage space and speed is concerned. |
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mdgm
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| Bandit Bill wrote: |
2.5" drives always lag behind 3.5" drives as far as storage space and speed is concerned. |
That's true for hard drives. However SSDs (e.g. 2.5" ones) are much faster than 3.5" hard drives but if you need lots of internal storage SSDs are very expensive and again like 2.5" hard drives top out at about 1TB, I think.
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marv777
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| Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 9:45 pm Post subject: Mini |
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| Bandit Bill wrote: | | talltodd wrote: | | Why aren't 3TB drives offered as an option on the Mac Mini like they are on the iMacs? Doesn't make sense. |
Fair question.
As mdgm mentioned, the iMac uses a 3.5" (desktop) drive, the mini uses a 2.5" (laptop) drive
Currently there are no 3TB 2.5" hard drives. As far as I know 1TB is the largest 2.5" drive currently available and even at that, it runs at 5,400 RPM. You can get 750GB 2.5" 7,200RPM drives.
2.5" drives always lag behind 3.5" drives as far as storage space and speed is concerned. |
Is this mac mini really a laptop? |
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Bandit Bill
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| Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 11:52 pm Post subject: Re: Mini |
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| marv777 wrote: | | Bandit Bill wrote: | | talltodd wrote: | | Why aren't 3TB drives offered as an option on the Mac Mini like they are on the iMacs? Doesn't make sense. |
Fair question.
As mdgm mentioned, the iMac uses a 3.5" (desktop) drive, the mini uses a 2.5" (laptop) drive
Currently there are no 3TB 2.5" hard drives. As far as I know 1TB is the largest 2.5" drive currently available and even at that, it runs at 5,400 RPM. You can get 750GB 2.5" 7,200RPM drives.
2.5" drives always lag behind 3.5" drives as far as storage space and speed is concerned. |
Is this mac mini really a laptop? |
It uses a mobile processor,video chipset and hard drive, but its still classified as a desktop. |
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