But as an emergency backup or to reinstall the OS on the Mac mini server, an SD card will work rather nicely. Apple was clear that you don’t want to use an SD card as the normal boot device on these servers-they’re not designed for that. One handy feature of the Mac mini server: since it supports large-capacity SD cards, you can install an OS on one and boot from it. Apple says both the optical drive and ethernet adapter for the Air are supported by the Mac mini server, although you’re obviously not going to get the same speed from a USB ethernet adapter as you are from gigabit ethernet.
If you simply must have dual ethernet ports, you can again, borrow from the MacBook Air, and use theĪpple USB Ethernet Adapter ($29). NetBoot, that’s no longer as necessary as it once was. If you must have an optical drive, you can get theĪpple MacBook Air SuperDrive ($99), although with technology like Those things aren’t as off-putting as they may seem. There’s no optical drive, no redundant power supplies, and no extra ethernet ports.
What you don’t get are some things considered requirements for a server. What you do get is a small form factor that ships with a 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, 4GB of RAM, (upgradeable to 8GB), dual 500GB 7200-rpm hard drives, one gigabit ethernet port, a FireWire 800 port, HDMI out, Mini DisplayPort, four USB 2.0 ports, an SD card slot with SDXC card support, and a nVidia GeForce 320M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM.
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