AcomData mini Pal

admin · Site Admin Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 2047 Location: U.S.A

Product: AcomData mini Pal
Category: Hard Drive Enclosures

Summary:
We know you love your Mac mini. But what if you need more? More storage, for instance. Or more connections for your digital devices. What about backing up your precious digital photos, music and other files that you would hate to lose should something go wrong?

Well, now there's mini Pal, the perfect companion to your Mac mini from AcomData. mini Pal provides your Mac mini with more storage capacity, more device connections, and more data protection with PushButton Backup. [List Price: NA]

homerjatmoes · Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 4:20 pm Post subject:

CompUSA Carries the 160GB model for $199.99
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1.42Ghz
1GB RAM
200GB FW HDD (Boot drive)
80GB HDD
External DVD burner
45.23 Xbench 1.2 average
FireWire Boot Guide

billabong · Member Joined: 26 Jan 2005 Posts: 147 Location: Texas

Any idea where you can get the other models?

homerjatmoes · Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 11:46 pm Post subject:

billabong · Member Joined: 26 Jan 2005 Posts: 147 Location: Texas

Thanks Homer! Very Happy

Mac · New Member Joined: 10 Dec 2005 Posts: 1

I just talked to Tech Support at Acomdata yesterday about booting from the Mini Pal. If you look through the user's guide on the acomdata web site, it sounds like it isn't bootalbe and can't be used as a startup disk. However, in a review at Amazon, someone claims to use it as a startup drive.
So, the tech says it is bootable, but you need a firware upgrade and emailed me the files. I pointed out that it doesn't sound that way from the website and suggested they fix up their marketing so it would be clear, since many of us want to boot from it to speed things up.
I oredered mine this morning from thenerds.net.

fourmuses · New Member Joined: 05 Jun 2006 Posts: 1

Hi all, I'm new to this forum, but want to share the love.

I just received my NIB 250 gig Acomdata Mini Pal today for the price of $170.00 US. Unbelievable! I got it at the following address:

www.spacecentersystems.com

Also, you may want to check the following links from pricegrabber:

<a href="http://www.pricegrabber.com/p__AcomData_250GB_Mini_Pal_HDD_MAC_Mini,__10581452/search=minipal/skd=1">250 Gig Mini Pal</a>

<a href="http://www.pricegrabber.com/p__AcomData_320GB_Mini_Pal_Combo_HDD,__16392851/search=minipal/skd=1">320 gig Mini Pal</a>

Happy hunting!!

newmac1 · New Member Joined: 07 Feb 2006 Posts: 8

I can boot from my 250GB Acomdata firewire ($100 post rebate/sale) drives (not the MiniPal series), even though Acomdata website says you can't. They are cloned from the MacMini drive using the restore function in OSX.

My drives are Western Digital, what drives are coming in the MiniPal?

grawk · New Member Joined: 21 Aug 2007 Posts: 2

Something to be aware of: the acomdata mini pal has usb slots, but isn't a usb drive. It's firewire only. I was having noise issues with my firewire sound card and tried to move the drives to usb. No go. Then I read the specs, and basically, it's just a usb hub in the case.

jdryyz · Junior Member Joined: 01 Sep 2005 Posts: 46

Please see my latest post here:

http://www.123macmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=561&start=30

Are there any owners of the Mini Pal here that can check to see if their drive spins down when the Mac Mini goes to sleep?

Thanks.


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