so ....... i got my new drive in and server set up, got the port forwarding done on the router and no go. then i find out cablevison has blocked port 80. so i go back in and change…

I just don't like the idea of taking something designed to be small and elegant and make it bigger by adding onto it. I'd much rather have an external HD separate and a UBS and Fir…

Unfortunately, the Mini is not designed to be stackable. It would have been so easy for Apple to have done this, but they didn't. So no matter what the pictures look like, you will…

Don't worry I still can't get mine to work. Its almost like the Linksys isn't forwarding or something, but I don't know. I have no real knowledge of how to test it.

I don't like them at all. That's all I have to say about them.

Has anyone had any experiences with the drive enclosure/FW USB hub mini form-factor add-ons? They certainly looked very good, and you get your 7200 RPM drive while increasing the n…

Quote: Originally Posted by Jasoco OS installs and upgrades. I'm tired of having to copy my Home to another drive to do an install of the latest Mac OS. People have been putting…

Quote: Originally Posted by hudson1 The general consensus has been that an external FW400 7200 RPM drive won't create a faster Mac mini. where?

Quote: Originally Posted by turtle777 Why are upgrades easier with the Home folder being on an external disk ? What upgrades anyways ? -t OS installs and upgrades. I'm tir…

I have to ask how using another spindle isn't going to help with speed under certain situations ? Precaching will help but for long reads and writes, a second disk might help if…

i fried the hard drive. seriously. it blows. i was in the middle of unplugging the drive from the tower and, i have no idea how, but the wires came out of the power plug. while…

Quote: Originally Posted by hhlee this is entirely true. just thought i'd point it out - i guess if you decide to buy a rackmount server, you should choose something other than …

Quote: Originally Posted by Jasoco Don't do what? Move the User to another partition or don't get a FW drive to run the computer on? Duh, the former. I do the later myself.…

Quote: Originally Posted by Jasoco Oh, I know I wasn't gonna gain speed. I wanted to move the Home folder to make upgrades easier. Sorry, I shouldn't have added that in this thr…

Oh, I know I wasn't gonna gain speed. I wanted to move the Home folder to make upgrades easier. Sorry, I shouldn't have added that in this thread.

Don't move the Home folder to another location. There's no speed gain, and OS X isn't the same as most other *NIXs in that regard.

Quote: Originally Posted by Chuckit Oh, please. That test is very questionable (is it testing OS X or the G5 chip or something else entirely?), and the Mac is still fast enough …

Don't do what? Move the User to another partition or don't get a FW drive to run the computer on?

Quote: Originally Posted by hhlee not to rain on your parade but if it were up to me, i wouldn't use the mac as a server: http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2436&p…

Quote: Originally Posted by hhlee not to rain on your parade but if it were up to me, i wouldn't use the mac as a server: http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2436&p…

not to rain on your parade but if it were up to me, i wouldn't use the mac as a server: http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2436&p=8 the mac is quite slow in mysql an…

This page seems to have the info on how to set up the port forwarding on the D-Link router. The issue I see is the fact that each ISP caches DNS information. This means that when…

Quote: Originally Posted by Jasoco I figured it'd be easier to backup and do reinstalls with Home separate. In this case, I'd have OS X on one partition and Home on another, bot…

I figured it'd be easier to backup and do reinstalls with Home separate. In this case, I'd have OS X on one partition and Home on another, both on a separate FW HD with a faster sp…

wikipedia, good suggestion.