Newer shaped mac mini external hard drive?

[byke]

Lacie and a few other brands used to make external additional hard drives for the old mac mini which were boxed in similar shapes to the mini and allowed them to be stacked.

Any idea if any company is doing anything similar now the shape has changed?

cheers

 

[philipma1957]

No there are none. The new machine shows apple's intent to sell streaming data from "the cloud" . Thus it is not suited for stacking. The top and the bottom are not flat as part of a stand alone no stack concept. Since the design is selling well any stacking pieces are very unlikely to show up.

two of these side by side look okay under a mini.

http://www.sansdigital.com/towerstor/ts1ct.html

 

[Huubster]

No there are none. The new machine shows apple's intent to sell streaming data from "the cloud" . Thus it is not suited for stacking. The top and the bottom are not flat as part of a stand alone no stack concept. Since the design is selling well any stacking pieces are very unlikely to show up.

I strongly disagree with this analysis. Apple's strategy is not a law. If a third party thinks they can make some bucks by releasing something stackable they will. Apart from that, the Mini is still very often used in a server setup and there is a market for stackable peripherals there. It's only a matter of time because there is certainly demand for it.

It's true that stacking is not straight forward with this form factor, but with some cleverly designed "feet" it's certainly possible. Feet which had also been designed by 3d parties to make the previous generation better stackable btw...

An informative thread here:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1024699/

 

[frankencat]

I highly recommend the Seagate FreeAgent external drives. Very cool looking and they stack on top of the mini very nicely. I have 2 of the 1.5TB drives.

 

[philipma1957]

I strongly disagree with this analysis. Apple's strategy is not a law. If a third party thinks they can make some bucks by releasing something stackable they will. Apart from that, the Mini is still very often used in a server setup and there is a market for stackable peripherals there. It's only a matter of time because there is certainly demand for it.

It's true that stacking is not straight forward with this form factor, but with some cleverly designed "feet" it's certainly possible. Feet which had also been designed by 3d parties to make the previous generation better stackable btw...

An informative thread here:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1024699/

while you may disagree with me right now it is over 6 months since the 2010 (june 2010) mini came out and nothing exists for direct stacking.


http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Macessity/STANDBYMI2/


this will work the mini can go above or below with many assorted externals
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http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer Technology/NUSTALYMINI/

this is interesting but not exactly right you could use two of these flanking it.

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/external/freeagent/freeagent_desk_mac/



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http://www.buy.com/prod/macsense-st...metal-desk-mountable/q/loc/101/214398401.html


put a new mini on top with two of these under it


http://www.sansdigital.com/towerstor/ts1ct.html

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we need the 2011 mini to have an esata port. use it with this


http://www.sansdigital.com/towerstor/ts25ct.html or this



http://www.sansdigital.com/towerstor/ts5ct.html your mini will do estata speed raid5 huge boot drive of up to 8tb(maybe 12tb) with close to ssd speed.