Two 24" LED Cinema Displays from 2009 Mac Mini?

I have been using two 24 inch Samsung's with a Mac mini for about 6 months and it's been great until one of the monitors failed me last week. After some research I purchased a new 24" LED ACD and it's a beautiful monitor that blows away my other 24" Samsung. I'm thinking about getting another 24" LED ACD and my question is: Has anyone connected 2 24" LED ACD's to a Mac mini using: http://www.atlona.com/Atlona-DVI-to-Mini-DisplayPort-Converter-p-17859.html
My plan is to use the mini display port to connect one ACD and use the Atlona Converter to connect the other ACD through the mini DVI port on the Mac Mini. I have the Atlona converter ordered and it will be here early next week and I'll report back on the results unless someone else has already done this and knows it works.

Jim Stewart1 wrote:
Just one further question, though - doesn't that mean I lose out on other uses for the Mini's only Thunderbolt port?
No, because Thunderbolt can be daisy chained. Just make sure that whatever Thunderbold Drive Enclosure you get, has dual Thunderbolt ports so that you can chain your second monitor to it.
see > Displays: Mini DisplayPort display must be last in a Thunderbolt chain
Also, can I ask why you suggest putting the 20" on HDMI? If it came to running a single monitor + Thunderbolt RAID setup, I'd like to have the 23" on the HDMI.
Mostly because the Thunderbolt/Mini DisplayPort supports higher resolutions than the HDMI port.
HDMI to DVI only supports 1920x1200
Thunderbolt port supports 2560x1600
Would that be problematic?
Not as long as the 23" monitors native resolution is 1920x1200 or less.

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