06-05-2014, 03:14 PM
I'm a fan of the mini, don't get me wrong.
I just wish Apple would sell one with an eSATA port. I know intrepid individuals have hacked the internal port to an external connector. I had one such mini set up for a while with the case top removed, running inside of a beige G3 case, using the G3's power supply and housings for 4 x 1.5TB drives and a SATA port multiplier. I could boot off a partition on the port multiplier's RAID 10 setup and used the optical cable for a 3.5" SATA DVD-ROM drive.
Eventually I put this little beastie back together as a regular machine connected to my TV. No doubt this is why its optical drive no longer reads DVDs out of spite.
I just wish Apple would sell one with an eSATA port. I know intrepid individuals have hacked the internal port to an external connector. I had one such mini set up for a while with the case top removed, running inside of a beige G3 case, using the G3's power supply and housings for 4 x 1.5TB drives and a SATA port multiplier. I could boot off a partition on the port multiplier's RAID 10 setup and used the optical cable for a 3.5" SATA DVD-ROM drive.
Eventually I put this little beastie back together as a regular machine connected to my TV. No doubt this is why its optical drive no longer reads DVDs out of spite.