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Colocate Your Mac mini
Pfhreak writes "Pure Static is already offering a service to colocate your Mac mini into a rack for those who want to set up a server on the cheap. Unfortunately, according to their FAQ, they're not planning on creating a Mini supercomputer. Which could be good news for those of you that are working towards being the first to set up such a cluster who have purchased a couple pallets of Minis, but haven't had time to finish setting up the cluster."
This machine is built to stand free so that the internal vent can work. The problem I see with it in a rack is heat issues. Sure you can use the Mac as a home server within a home, a homeserver hosts some services (fileservices sometimes movies and mp3s) and stands free, it is just there 90% of the time and 10% of the time it has real work to do. The problems start if you put that stuff into a rack that once it has work to do it needs a good ventilation where air is sucked in from the bottom like most notebooks do, so it works in a home environemt but easily might burn out in a rack....