We decided to see if we could stuff a full terabyte worth of storage into our new Mac mini. Why would anyone possibly want this much storage?

Bragging rights. Mac minis come with either 120, 250, or 320 GB standard. Yours has 1 TERABYTE.

Built-in Time Machine. Sure, you can hook up an external drive, but it's sure nice not to have cables everywhere.

RAID -- mirroring, striping, concatenating -- take your pick.

And seriously, with that much space, who needs an optical drive?