You're not going to beat the two-nodes price. If you're fine with a single-NIC single-disk server, Minis are not a bad deal.
However, you're not going to get dual-NICs, ECC memory, or multiple "spindles" in a Mini formfactor.
However, you're not going to get dual-NICs, ECC memory, or multiple "spindles" in a Mini formfactor.
But for use cases where you just have dumb nodes they are perfect.