Intel MacMini hard disk speed

Sun, 5 March 2006

There’s been a little confusion about whether the hard drive in the latest Mac Mini is 5400 or 7200 rpm.

Even though Apple’s website states it is 4500 some people pushed hard to prove it was 7200 as pointed somewhere on the web, apparently Apple website as well, that this disk is indeed 7200 rpm. I must admit that I have seen this as well, but can’t remember where.

So is it all just a wishfull thinking. I’m afraid it is. I just ran the system report on my MacMini (1.66 Core Duo) and it shows the drive to be Seagate ST98823AS.

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A quick look up on Seagate website confirms this:

Model Number:ST98823AS
Capacity:80 GB
Speed:5400 rpm
Seek time:12.5 ms avg
Interface:SATA 1.5Gb/s

Case closed !

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4 Responses to “Intel MacMini hard disk speed”

  1. Paul Stamatiou said: Sun, 5 March 2006 at 16:53

    The deal was that on launch day, the site said 7200rpm and the next day it said 5400rpm. How’s the new mini holding up? I’m going to sell off my old mini and order on this weekend. However, I’ll be putting a 1.83GHz Core Duo in mine as the CPU is socketed.

  2. Trippy said: Mon, 6 March 2006 at 00:45

    Actually the confusion on launch day was from the difference between the specs on the hardware page which said 5400 RPM and the hard drive popup info box in the store which said 7200 RPM.

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  4. msbob said: Sat, 24 February 2007 at 17:35

    “Even though Apple’s website states it is 4500….”

    at least it’s not 4500rpm ;-)

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