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Apple's lowliest computer - the Mac Mini - benefits tremendously from a solid-state internal disk drive upgrade. Relieve the performance bottle-neck with a super-fast flash memory based drive storage

Although you can have one big fat hard drive as single partition, you should Partition as well, if you have a big hard drive. Partitioning is the method of dividing an area on a disk into minor portions of smaller capacities that can be recognized by the operating system. Picture this: your hard drive is a cake. It is easier to eat a cake divided into pieces than to eat it whole.

Review SSD flash memory disk drive options for Apple Macintosh computers. Find the best SSD prices and deals on high-speed SLC MLC storage for your iMac, Mac mini, MacBook, Pro tower

About a year ago, we bought an Intel-based Xserve with a pair of 80 GB SATA drives to act as our primary Web server. When the boot drive went flaky on us in October 2008, we were able to recover from the backup on the second drive and off-site backups, if a little shakily (see "TidBITS Outage Causes Editors Outrage", 2008-10-07). But although we were able to bring the machine back online, we didn't trust the drive that had failed. Since the Xserve has three drive bays, the obvious solution was to purchase another drive. Sounds simple, doesn't it? Not so much.

A whole lot has been happening in iPhone-land lately. The 3G iPhone is now available unlocked…in China. If you want to write a nasty note about an iPhone Application, you're going to have to pay for it first. Lastly, Apple has lowered the number of iPhones it will manufacture this year, but has raised the number it thinks it will sell.

Oosah, a photosharing site that launched back in April, has unveiled a cool new site for iPhone users. But the most interesting part of the site doesn't have anything to do photos - Oosah will allow users to access up to 1 terabyte of any media for free, including music. That means Oosah site turns your iPhone into a 1 terabyte music player.