Hey Guys
Is this a foolish idea?
I've been looking into swapping my old pentium-M file server for a 2010 mac mini which will become a HTPC and file server in one. lower power, more powerful hardware (dual core and more ram!) for transcoding etc and generally looks nicer!
Currently my Pentium-M system uses an old silicon image PCI SATA/Raid card with 2x1TB WD Green drives (the old 8meg ones) in a raid 1 array. This raid set is the only storage the file server has and as a result has Windows installed on it as well as files to be shared.
Now, the Mac Mini obviously has a flaw here in that I can't just connect these 2x1TB drives up to it via SATA or similar. So I was thinking of using a small SSD as the boot drive in the Mac Mini but chucking my 2x1TB drives in a Firewire 800 caddy raided up again for storage. I know the performance of Firewire 800 doesn't usually compare with SATA but how close will it be?
Whats making me wonder if it could be useable is the fact I'm currently using a PCI SATA card which surely has got to be dog slow compared to a native SATA conenction from being limited by the PCI bandwidth??
Ideas or thoughts?
Is this a foolish idea?
I've been looking into swapping my old pentium-M file server for a 2010 mac mini which will become a HTPC and file server in one. lower power, more powerful hardware (dual core and more ram!) for transcoding etc and generally looks nicer!
Currently my Pentium-M system uses an old silicon image PCI SATA/Raid card with 2x1TB WD Green drives (the old 8meg ones) in a raid 1 array. This raid set is the only storage the file server has and as a result has Windows installed on it as well as files to be shared.
Now, the Mac Mini obviously has a flaw here in that I can't just connect these 2x1TB drives up to it via SATA or similar. So I was thinking of using a small SSD as the boot drive in the Mac Mini but chucking my 2x1TB drives in a Firewire 800 caddy raided up again for storage. I know the performance of Firewire 800 doesn't usually compare with SATA but how close will it be?
Whats making me wonder if it could be useable is the fact I'm currently using a PCI SATA card which surely has got to be dog slow compared to a native SATA conenction from being limited by the PCI bandwidth??
Ideas or thoughts?
Last edited:
does anyone have any ideas or thoughts on this?