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MacMini Hard drive question

Habitus

Habitus

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Hey all!

I've been considering purchasing a MacMini in the future and I have a few questions... Has anyone replaced the internal drive? What sizes are available? Also, has anyone used their MacMini as a media center with cable? Thanks!

Habitus
 
Officially, the largest one you can get is a 2.5" SATA 500GB drive. There is a 1TB drive available but it is unknown if it will fit with/without some sort of modification.
 
Thanks for the quick replies. Has anyone used their MacMini as a media center? I have a windows media center, but its instability is killing me. Is their a Mac equivalent to windows media center software? Also, has anyone used windows via virtual machine on their MacMini? How is the performance?

Habitus
 
Habitus said:
Thanks for the quick replies. Has anyone used their MacMini as a media center? I have a windows media center, but its instability is killing me. Is their a Mac equivalent to windows media center software? Also, has anyone used windows via virtual machine on their MacMini? How is the performance?

Habitus
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Front Row, Plex, Hulu Desktop, others I forgot.
 
This is all great stuff! Next question... With the hard drive upgrade and RAM upgrade, could I use the MacMini as a server? Forgive my ignorance, but I didn't know where else to turn. could I stream media from my MacMini with my MacBook Pro or iPhone? Thanks!
 
Get one of the new 2nd Generation Intel SSD drives and use an external for primary data storage for things like music and video editiing. Hopefully these will be Mac Compatible because the speed is amazing.
 
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