Has anyone tried running their Mini from a 3.5" drive?

Actually what I'm asking is if anyone has tried installing an internal 3.5" HD in an enclosure using an IDE adapter? I was hoping to improve the HD speed of my mini by running it off of the 3.5" HD but wanted to make sure someone else has actually done it successfully and that I'm not going to damage the HD I have in there now.
Thanks,
John
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Just going with an external firewire drive might be less of a headache and get the results you are after. For example:
"FireWire for 75% Better Mac mini Disk Performance":
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/17/0040220
and here:
http://www.budget-ha.com/apple/mac-mini-firewire/
Macintouch.com tried something like what you are proposing with the new Intel Mini:
http://www.macintouch.com/specialreports/minimonster/phase2.html

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