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Can speak for someone who managed a racked [1] Mac Mini racked as a server in 2015~2018:

* Profile Manager / MDM * Caching server for OS updates * Thunderbolt connection to a PCIe RAID HBA for a JBOD for NAS file sharing

All these things/use cases now are depreciated, MDM via JAMF in the cloud, internet is fast enough that caching OS updates isn't necessary, and NAS's are much better suited.

[1] https://www.sonnettech.com/product/legacyproducts/xmacminise...