MS-02 Ultra

Minisforum MS-A2 has 2xSFP+ & the MS-02 Ultra has 2xSFP28 SFP+! They also have a single slot half height PCI slot. The MS-02 Ultra definitely fits your bill as it has 4 or 5 nvme slots? 2 are built into the SFP28 adapter.

I just got the MINISFORUM MS-02 Ultra Workstation Mini PC w Intel Core Ultra 5 235HX barebones. It's a 1 Liter form factor and you can add the MSI Gaming RTX 3050 LP 6G to it or Intel ARC Low Profile GPU. I like this larger than usual MiniPC for its cooling, relative silence, connectivity, and expan

If the Arc B50 Pro has to live inside the box, the MINISFORUM MS 02 Ultra Workstation Mini PC makes sense. It has the PCIe and 350W PSU shape, but I would still verify SR IOV before buying.

It depends what size and cost you are happy with. I have a Minisforum MS-02 Ultra which is sold as barebone and is quite expandable. But some would say that this is no MiniPC anymore. With less than 5 l ivolume only it is quite small.

sure, given the extension opportunities via pcie as well as the 4x sodimm DDR5 slots, this is very cool, i.e. you could load it with 128GB++ ram and an sff/low-profile gpu (some RTX Ada and Blackwell gpus have a 4w idle). So you can have there a very powerful (though almost) desktop equivalent for <

How has it been going with the MS-02 Ultra? Between picking up the 235hx version or getting a 1L form factor with 15-14500t. Would be about $150-$200 extra for the minisforum, but seems to have a lot of growing room if needed. Currently run jellyfin with 2-3 active users for media, arr stack, next c

Did you look at the MS-02 hardware diagram and the detailed processor/chipset specification? There are not enough pcie lanes on neither the processor nor chipset available. Neither for an x8 nor for a full x16 slot. The first 4 lanes come from the processor and the following two x4 groups from the c

Mac if you also want to include LLM else you could either look at building one or MinisForum MS-02 ultra and slapping in a single slot Nvidia GPU. If you consider building one then you could look at building an intel based system for your use case using intel core ultra series. You could look at itx

You’re absolutely right about the RAM situation. I’ve been following the prices closely because I’m also considering the MS-02, and the spike this month has been brutal. I’m using the same Crucial 96GB kit in my MS-01, and seeing it literally double in price just as Minisforum announced their own pr