[Cube] The Mini is so... small

[Christian Leue]

Just to add another facet to the "Mini vs. Cube" debate:  instead of  
going for another round of Cube upgrades, I finally decided to get a  
Mini as a companion. I moved the external disks, DVD burner, printer,  
scanner and all services I could (DHCP, DNS, SMTP, IMAP, Web, Print,  
iTunes) onto the Mini, which sits hidden away behind the desk as a  
server now. The Cube remains the main machine on the desk, of course,  
but now that all the tasks that were bogging it down are offloaded to  
the Mini, I feel like I just prolonged the Cube's useful life by a  
few years. Plus, now the Cube sleeps again, even with the Gigadesigns  
1.4 CPU card.

Cheers,
Christian

ps: my external disks have FW400 as well as USB2 interfaces. Since  
the Mini has both too, I was wondering whether anybody here has done  
speed comparisons.