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Minisforum MS-01 announced. 2x10g sfp+, 2x2.5gbe, pci slot, 3xm2 slots. 2xUSB4 40g. What do we think? (store.minisforum.com)
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This looks like an amazing little box that can do almost anything. I'm wondering how people feel about the pricepoint

$679 early bird

$839 msrp

I'd love to grab one to use as a router/firewall, plus run any homelabbing containers I have on my NAS.

How's the value proposition stack up? Price looks great to me considering the cpu and connectivity it offers.

Edit: Additional info

serve the home sponsored video sponsored but still really really informative. There's a section near the end going through a tons of ideas of how to utilize the pci slot, including epanding nvme storage, external sas, extra networking etc. seems you can get over 40gb extra throughput from that port.

Forum thread for pci slot compatibility

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[–] cybersandwich 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It says 2tb limit for SSDs which is odd? Maybe I am misunderstanding that.

I'm interested in hearing what folks who are interested had planned for this. It seems like it would be an overkill pfsense box. Could be a proxmox host for high IO vms but at rh same time kinda limited in terms of storage.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I would guess that's not a hard limit. Maybe they decided to undersell it because many 4TB+ nvme drives are physically larger and/or require heat sinks, so they might not fit. I don't see any details on their web site though.

Given two drives with the same size, same heat output, and same interface, it shouldn't make a difference.

It's pretty common to see fake limits like that on spec sheets. I can definitely put more RAM in my motherboard than is officially supported since higher-capacity DIMMs are out in the same form factor now compared to when the mobo was released.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That is strange that they would have size limit for the SSD. Maybe it only supports single sided M.2 drives, but if that's the case, they should have just said it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Single-sided drives can be up to 4TB though, no?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The Samsung pro I got is 4TB and single sided.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

the pci slot would be able to be used for external storage, like connecting to a nas or das. serve the home found you can add one of these though I don't think they tested that it can hit the max theoretical throughput of 96gbps.