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All servers fail randomly and so do hard drives so not sure why Mac Mini would be any different. Also they rack mount very easily: http://www.sonnettech.com/pr

• rdtsc 14y ago
  They do but we found that mac minis do so more often. I have a sample of about 15 out of say 100+ other regular 1U rack mountable machines. Mac minis failed at a much higher rate. The worst part is that some failures were not a 'stop dead failure' where it was easy to detect and replace. Some would just freeze intermittently, some just got really slow. One could tell that there is a practical difference between server grade and consumer grade components. In retrospect time spent debugging and messing with this was probably not worth the gain in density and the cost.
  • adrianpike 14y ago
    I for one would love it if you'd have the chance to dig a little bit and share what you find. I've only got a sample size of two recently purchased (2012) Mini's, and they've both had memory issues.
    • rdtsc 14y ago
      These were 2009-2011 mac minis (the previous generation). Hard drive failures and complete freezes were the major problems we saw. Freezes were random but clustered on the same set of machines. Over time they got worse. We never found what it was exactly (except the hard drives), and of course, replacing components is not a quick easy job when it comes to Apple.
      • Synaesthesia 14y ago
        It is tough to replace the drives. Furthermore the good CPUs in the Mini are hamper by the slow 2.5" HDD's. But with SSD's they're great.