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Bandit Bill
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| statik13 wrote: | | Are any of these drives actually aluminum or are they all "aluminum coloured plastic". yuck. |
I personally have a aluminum LaCie mini. I think it is fantastic. I bought the 1st gen model without the fan. No heat issues.
It doesn't look like LaCie sells them any longer.
http://www.lacie.com/us/products/clearance/products/?id=10007
there are 3 @ $110ea with 320GB drives in clearance |
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barnz
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Bandit Bill wrote: |
I personally have a aluminum LaCie mini.
there are 3 @ $110ea with 320GB drives in clearance |
Do you know what's inside for a HD? Could it be swapped for a bigger one?
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| barnz wrote: | | Do you know what's inside for a HD? Could it be swapped for a bigger one? |
Looking at the photos in the 123MM review, opening one up seems perfectly possible...
http://www.123macmini.com/accessories/reviews/121.html
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Bandit Bill
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They are very simple to open. Just 4 screws located under the rubber feet on the bottom.
I think mine came with a Seagate. It's very quiet. Whatever drives they use are good ones.
BTW, I believe the clearance drives are the passive models (no fan) yet they have a built in firewire/USB hub. |
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I have a mini-stack V2 that I installed my own drive into. I'll probably replace the HD with a bigger and faster one eventually. I've had this mini-stack replaced under warranty already because something happened with the power connector. It would no longer power on. The same thing happened to my V1 but I thought that was caused by a spike because it stopped working after a power failure. once the 2nd one failed, I called them and had it replaced. I don't think I'd buy another mini-stack, but I'd look at other brands.
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