Henner Malchert decided that the measly hard drive inside his new Core Duo Mac Mini wasn’t enough, so he fitted an external SATA drive. He took it apart and removed the 2.5″ HDD and fitted a SATA cable which he ran through one of the small venting holes on the bottom of the mini. He then ran that SATA cable into his NewerTech MiniStack v2 which has a 300GB Samsung drive. However he doesn’t recommend the MiniStack because the hard drive gets quite hot and the fan makes a lot of noise. Overall though, it is a very cool mod, and a good option if you want to keep your computer small, yet benefit a large hard drive.
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Ha! Great idea…. it reminds me of the time I took my original Bondi Blue imac and made an external IDE drive for it using a Master/Slave configuration, an extra long IDE cable, and an external SCSI drive case (for power). The 4GB drive just wasn’t enough for me.