SSD standard in new Mini?

[englishman]

Anyone have any predictions about storage in the new Mini re storage - will it still be the 5400 rpm or do you think SSD eg 256 will be the new base?

 

[barkmonster]

I'm hoping they compromise and use 7200rpm HDDs and offer PCIe SSDs/Fusion as a BTO option. I don't think it would be that difficult if they're coming out with a new motherboard for Haswell anyway if they managed to fit a PCIe connector on the motherboard and use some kind of break-out lead/mounting system where the bottom HDD currently goes. That way they can still offer a HDD to keep costs down, still offer dual HDDs for a server model and yet offer PCIe SSDs like the rest of the Mac range can have either natively or as a BTO option.

I also hope they start using some of the more recent 1.5 or even 2Tb 2.5" 9.5mm HDDs. If they offered either a 2 x 2Tb server version or a 2Tb Fusion with PCIe SSDs instead of the existing 6Gb/s SSDs it would be an excellent upgrade even if the rest of the system remains the same accept for updating to Iris GPUs, Haswell CPUs and Thunderbolt2. I wouldn't be surprised if it drops Firewire 800 and has 2 x Thunderbolt2 ports.

 

[Meister]

It should come with standard ssd pcie and a slot for ssd or hdd to expand.

 

[dudedude]

It should come with standard ssd pcie and a slot for ssd or hdd to expand.

Yeah that would work for me. I didn't realize it but the newer brix computers with the iris pro graphics have both an msata slot and room for a 2.5" hard drive. Good setup. I hope apple does something comparable.