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Mac Mini w/server app 2012 or 2014

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dschultz

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Oct 24, 2008
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I am going to purchase a mini to use as a server at home.

I am planning on using it for TM backups for 4 Macs, af possible Minecraft server for the kids, and a home automation server for Homeseer or Indigo.
Maybe some distributed computing project with the extra CPU cycles...

External storage will be the OWC Thunderbay 4 RAID with Soft Raid.

Thought on the following:

2012 i7 Quad core
OR
2014 i5 2.6 (or i7 3.0) + 256M flash + 16 GB ram

Speced out this way they are about the same price.

Thanks for the advice.
 
Ice Dragon

Ice Dragon

macrumors 6502a
Jun 16, 2009
989
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It really depends on your needs but if you can get the 2012 with an SSD and 16 GB RAM, go that route. The 2014 has better onboard graphics though.
 
chrfr

chrfr

macrumors G5
Jul 11, 2009
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dschultz said:
External storage will be the OWC Thunderbay 4 RAID with Soft Raid.
Click to expand...

It probably won't matter much in your application but the 2014 mini has Thunderbolt 2 which is theoretically 100% faster than the Thunderbolt (1) in the 2012 mini.
 
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