Apple Mac Mini And Raspberry Pi Rack EmptyĪll of the base units can take up to two Mac Mini’s. On the left one can see the holes for the Mac Mini but the faceplate has two spots sized for Raspberry Pi I/O. On the right, we have the holes for the bottom of the Mac Mini. Below, you can see the basic unit with a small customization. The base rack is a 1U shelf that has a number of features custom-designed for the Apple Mac Mini. Just a quick note on this, due to the nature of the solution where much of it is in-rack and installation, the video may be more informative than the written article. sent us the two versions of the rack so we could give them a try. Video Versionįor this one, we are doing a video just to give a better sense of what the solution entails:Īs always, feel free to open that in a new window so you can see what is going on. As a result, we ended up with a 5-node Arm cluster neatly packed in 2U of rack space. The folks at are both STH readers, and also a company with a solution to rackmount both the Mac Mini and Raspberry Pi in the same 1U chassis. Still, adding the Mac Mini to our racks seemed like a challenge given its form factor. A new Arm-based Mac with solid performance and low power consumption in a form factor that aligned with Project TinyMiniMicro nodes seemed like a winning proposition. When the Apple Mac Mini M1 was released, we were intrigued to say the least.
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