So, I enquired by the Apple Store employees… who had to ask their tech guru… who said that the 7200 rm drives are 3 Gbps also and that the SSD drives are 3 Gbps also. OWC / Other World Computing 16GB 260-Pin SO-DIMM DDR4 (PC4-21300) 2666MHz Memory Upgrade Kit for iMac with Retina 5K Display, Mac mini, PC Laptops. The Apple Store had no 7200 rpm or SSD Mac Mini on display. However, why still not a 6 Gbps drive? Because the drives are not fast enough to saturate a 3 Gbps link? My bet is that 6 Gbps would definitely make sense with SSD. That is definitely not an improvement over last year’s model. Experience the Solid State Drive speed advantage or reuse an existing notebook hard drive in your 3. ![]() As a followup to my Mac Mini 2010 Hard Drive Speed rant, I went to the Apple Store today to check what’s up with the Mac Mini 2011…Īpparently, the Nvidia chipset has been replaced with an Intel chipset that is now capable of 6 Gigabit/second link speeds… and the entry level drive is now capable of 3 Gbps link speeds…
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