I recently just joined in on the this Minecraft adventure, and man I'm glad! Ive had a 2010 Mac Mini for a while as home server and I decided to add a Minecraft server to it! Before I had a 320 HDD in there and it would skip tickets every now and then the fps would hover around 30-45 fps on my macbook pro 15 and other peoples pc's. But sense I put in the SSD its a night and day difference! This evening we had some fun with the TNT and needless to say we couldn't crash the server! That SSD and CPU kept up! I know for sure with the HDD I would of had to kill the server.
My advise to anyone looking to build a server for Minecraft, put a SSD in it and have a good internet upload. With most of the area covered in lava with 3 people connected fps where still around 30! With the (Minecraft server 1.8) it works with multi-threaded processors!
specs: currently
Mac Mini (2010)
2.4 Core2duo
4GB ddr3 ram upgrading to 8GB next week
256 ocz vertex sata III
intergraded Nvidia 320m. (shared from ram)
time machine backups every hour for the Minecraft world
My advise to anyone looking to build a server for Minecraft, put a SSD in it and have a good internet upload. With most of the area covered in lava with 3 people connected fps where still around 30! With the (Minecraft server 1.8) it works with multi-threaded processors!
specs: currently
Mac Mini (2010)
2.4 Core2duo
4GB ddr3 ram upgrading to 8GB next week
256 ocz vertex sata III
intergraded Nvidia 320m. (shared from ram)
time machine backups every hour for the Minecraft world
[server] Mac Mini (Mid 2010) 2.66 Core 2 Duo - 8GB ddr3 @1333 - Nvidia 320m 256MB shared
[old] Alienware M17x R1 2.0 Core 2 Quad - 4GB ddr3 @1333 - Nvidia GTX 280m SLi