#Esata mac mini 2011 how to

Then we tested two OWC Mercury EXTREME 6G SSD in a RAID 0 configuration (on the server model of Mac mini вЂ“ again weвЂ™re looking into how to get a second hard drive into the consumer model, but that will be another blog post down the road after we figure it all out) we got Thunderbolt-saturating speeds averaging 995MB/sВ and 994MB/s for read and write speeds respectively. The speeds are well over twice as fast boasting 506MB/s read speeds and 432MB/s write speeds from a single drive! Pretty good for speeding up a lot of data intensive activities like importing music and video.Д«ut if youвЂ™re into audio editing, video editing, or doing anything else that reads and writes large amounts (or several small amounts) of data вЂ“ thereвЂ™s just no substitute for a SATA Revision 3.0 capable SSD such as the OWC Mercury EXTREME 6G SSD. Now, Apple does offer their own 256GB SSD option (a $600 add-on which isnвЂ™t available on the 2.3GHz base model) which boosts the average speed to an impressive 210MB/s read and 182MB/s write. Plenty of speed for your average email / web-surfing / social media computer. With the factory stock 5400RPM hard drive, which is what most people are used to computing with, the Mac mini goes pretty fast achieving read/write speeds around 86MB/s вЂ“ consistently above the maximum rated 80MB/s of an external FireWire 800 connection. The chart above shows the average read/write speeds as reported by QuickBench in four increasingly beneficial drive configurations in our 2.5GHz Intel Core i5 Mac mini (RAID 0 configuration results obtained from a 2.0GHz Intel Core i7В Mac mini Server as that is the only machine that comes factory stock with two available drive ports.) So, how fast are they? In our excitement on discovering the functionality of the drives, we posted screenshots of a few of our test results, but we wanted to put what that means for you into perspective.

We teased a bit with our post from last Friday exclaiming that the OWC 6G SSDs work with the new 2011 Mac mini. Our benchmarking has been completed on the latest round of Mac mini machines from Apple.