Howdy JG, Stu, and WeatherCat fans,
Anyone have first hand experience using a MacMini as a server versus a 2008 MacPro with 2 1 gig drives with Apple's RAID card. The room I have this in gets quite warm . . .
And what's wrong with that? It doubles as a space heater!! Yep, my station here . . . on an Intel Mac Mini with 1GB of RAM - it uses typically 30 watts of power, versus my Mac Pro which can peak at over 500 and 'idles' at 200 watts. If you can get one second hand at a good price, it makes a fine weather box.
Not quite the same scenario but close. For almost a decade, I had a beefy PC tower running LINUX as the home network server. It had a big power-supply as I had delusions of stuffing it with hard drives for network backups and stuff.
Ya' know this room would all get quite warm!! This was before we installed central air conditioning and it would get so warm in the summer - that I fried a hard drive once on a hot summer's day!
I've switched to a Mac Mini as the house network server and not only using about 1/10 the power, but the room is noticeably cooler!!
So, unless you really
need a space heater
, yeah try to get your paws on a Mac Mini instead!!
Cheers, Edouard
P.S. Oh,
ya' know, the mini is so much quieter than that monster PC tower with all those fans!!