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Haha like most of the population then! Ok so a fair amount of data then. If you've got a few hours to play with then its doable and you'll tend to be advised to go with firewire over USB because it has better sustained data transfer rates. (Generally speaking without wanting to get into FW800 vs USB3 chat).
You need to look at your mac mini, check the ports and see if you have FW800 or FW400 on it. The ports on the mac mini's have changed over time, for example, the newest ones have Thunderbolt, FW800 & USB3!
Then do the same for the PC and you'll get the lay of the land. For example if you by a external hard drive that has FW800 & USB2. You might find that you can plug your drive into the mac mini using FW800 and copy the files pretty fast. Lets say 6hrs. Then you go to the PC and it only has USB2. You would then be able to copy the files off of the drive but it will take longer than 6hrs because USB2 has a lower sustained datarate than FW800 (& FW400 for that matter).
If your Mac & PC had a thunderbolt drive you could get it all done crazy fast but it would cost you more. As always with this computer lark there are millions of ways to skin a cat but its best not to chat networking and other crazy stuff like that and just keep it simple(ish).
If you are sure no files are over 4GB then use FAT32 if you're nervous about the speed hit, exFAT otherwise.
Get a drive which can plug into both computers. Copy the files off of one computer to the drive. Then copy them off of the drive to the other computer. The cost and time will but the variables you'll have to consider. I tend to use G-Tech for external drives but its sounds like they'd be overkill for this.