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Low profile, no external power and single slot would be awesome for a Minisforum ms-01 or ms-a2, but I guess we're stuck with Frankenstein cards if we really want that.

And I thought I was paranoid, when I replaced the external PSUs of 4 Minisforum MS-01 with something better the moment I got them. (this also means I have the original PSUs as spares if one dies).

Minisforum MS-01 Why this over the MS-A2? This has intel iGPU great for plex emby etc. Also you can use SR-IOV and slice the iGPU up and pass a slices to different VMs. You can do this with the AMD iGPU. I this box you get 3xNVMe 2xSFP+ Low profile PCIe slot (great for small gpu or HBA and run a who

Eu de ex am pus un minisforum ms-01 cu proxmox/opnsense, ca router, si un minisforum ms-a2 cu 128gb ddr5/12tb nvme tot cu proxmox pt gazduit diverse servicii. Am ales modelele astea pt ca au 2x2.5 + 2x10g sfp, consuma putin, stocare buna, poti pune si un intel arc pt encode in jellyfin etc.

My minisforum ms-01 can do all that. And more powerful. If you get a MINISFORUM N5 Pro AI NAS you can replace your PC and NAS all in one.

I use the NAS for storage - that's what it's good at. Use other hardware for compute. My setup includes a DS-1520+ for storage combined with a proxmox cluster using a Minisforum MS-01 and a Intel NUC 13 Pro. It's night and day faster performance than deploying containers on the NAS. And it's easier/

Keep an eye on r/homelabsales and r/hardwareswapuk if you’re not already, they usually go cheap. Or, if you fancy treating yourself for Christmas, I got a minisforum MS-01 a while back and it’s been great.

Not sure how the thermal and noise but spoiler -> some harsh words below~ Looks to me It's cheaper Minisforum MS-01 copy but lacking all those criteria that makes MS-01 an MS-01. Too many I/Os has been skimmed off to the point that it has no advantage over an cube size Mini PC. You can easily find a

I have a cluster of three Synology servers. It's a very easy and intuitive UI and really reliable too. Been using them since 2019. That said, if I didn't want storage on it and just want to host some containers, I would never put that on Synology. The CPUs are painfully slow compute. I have a proxmo

SD Card does after two months, bought a minisforum ms-01 and don’t want to go back