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		theatrus2 on Dec 9, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 160 Mac Minis, One Rack You're not going to beat the two-nodes price. If you're fine with a single-NIC single-disk server, Minis are not a bad deal. However, you're not going to get dual-NICs, ECC memory, or multiple "spindles" in a Mini formfactor.

taligent on Dec 9, 2012 [–]

Actually you can get dual SSDs. But sure. The Mac Mini are not real servers and if you treat them like they are then I am sure you will have problems.

But for use cases where you just have dumb nodes they are perfect.

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