G4 Mini — #9 | MacTrove

Post #9 by waynestewart

Source Forum	G4 Mini — #9
Category	Hardware
Post Date	Fri, 7 Feb 2014 - 06:24
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/g4-mini.29828/

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I haven’t really thought about what I want to do with the mini. The price was cheap and buying it gave me a reason to play hooky from work. Once I find a purpose for it then I guess I’ll decide what to do storage wise. If nothing else, I have a number of small external drives I’ve retired in the 300gb – 1tb range. Nothing wrong with the drives except they’re too small.

I don’t have any 2.5” ATA hard drives larger than 40gb.

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Yes, the large capacity 2.5" ATA drives got expensive pretty much the moment they were discontinued. The Western Digital 320 GB 2.5" PATA is still available, or was not too long ago: WD3200BEVE

Price is north of $100 these days though. I don't think it ever got below $80. Kind of a tough sale for a Mini that cost you $20.

At this point in time the best solution for 2.5" ATA and 1.8" ZIF/ATA, if one wants largish capacity, is to get the proper mSATA adapter and install a 240 GB mSATA SSD. It's generally cheaper than buying the old stock hard drives with 240 GB or larger capacity.