Finding out Mac Mini harddrive speed?

[mrmunkily]

Hi, I had heard accounts of minis haing 5400 RPM hard drives from time to time. I would like to find out if mine does - Is there any way to do it without taking out the drive and loking at it?

I tried system profiler and it tells me nothing... Maybe I could do a benchmark? anyone with a known 4200 or 5400 hd willing to give me a benchmark in kB/sec transfer rate?

 

[simie]

The way to find out the speed of your hard drive is to get the drives details from the system profiler.

It may be displayed like this

Bus Type (Serial-ATA Bus in my G5)
Maxtor 6Y160M0 (manufacturer and then model number)

When you have these details go to the manufacturers website and find the specifications for the drive.