Is This The PERFECT Home Lab Mini PC?

Checking out one of my top picks for mini pc to home server, the mini forums MS-01 Mini PC. equipped with a i9-13900H and 10GbE networking. it is definitely a top contender

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[JeffGeerling]

Neat little box, it seems like there are a couple tiny compromises that make it not the perfect machine but "good enough" for some uses. It seems like if they could cut the price down (or when these are on the used market in a couple years), it would be a great "do it all" machine.

[Mr.Leeroy]

5:46 indeed, "it is insane" how "so much much you can do with this" is limited with SFF form-factor for otherwise capable specs hardware.
It does make a potentially interesting low-power 4x SPF+ with 2x Aux interfaces router, but then again at that price point its a premium for SFF constraints while any Supermicro mobo with two x8 slots will do the same (for fraction of cost used).

[bitpickersplace]

I got mine last week. It kicks butt and the networking choices are great. It’s running a Windows 11 vm and five Linux vm’s (one with a desktop) much better than my Dell R730 ever did.

[microlinux]

Very cool pc Don. Intel VPUs stands out with qsync and the amount of codecs supported.

[MarkConstable]

Please test iGPU Xe passthrough to a LINUX based Proxmox VM.

[FTLN]

Only one of the ethernet ports can be managed by vPRO, the one closest to the SFP+ port.

[jonbern]

It would be great if you could show us a compatible PCIE multi-NVME card that has its own RAID controller. This would be very useful to avoid data loss.

[KptnKMan]

Purchased one of these last night.

Cant wait for it to arrive.

[neutrino]

I can't say anything about the hardware itself because I am still waiting for my order, but If I knew about the long shipping times I would never order the MS-01!
At first there were some delays because of chinese new year hollidays, now it seems there are some problems with the power supply at the factory.
I'm not sure if to believe anything Minisforum says at this moment

Be aware, since they charge you the full amount on day one of your order and you wait MONTHS for the order to arrive.

[tirsojrp]

6:27 plenty of mini pcs from HP, Dell, Lenovo have vPRO with full KVM enabled.

[shephusted]

10mm would have made a lot of difference here but still pretty good kit - the zen5 variants should be even more fire - maybe 128gb ram capacities

[watermonkey]

Is there a way to create a SAN for ESXi with this machine? I mean with sfp+ it would be very nice to connect it to a little storage(most NAS Systems support iSCSI) for a bigger Datapool and you can use a faster raid option than the internal RAID 1 of the ms 01 which is managed by the cpu so u lose performamce.

[Oheng]

And how do you get spare parts? With HP, Dell, Lenovo mini PC's I can easily afford having spares around, and each year they're getting cheaper.

[ktube]

Minisforum MS01 is nice, I found with Minisforum AMD Ryzen™ 9 7945HX-BD790i ITX motherboard you get 16c/32 threads cpu good for ProxMox. Otherwise I'm waiting on MINISFORUM HX200G release which has similar CPU and better graphics.

[JbVest]

waht about the intel micro code debacle ? will it affect the i9 13900H? should i not use it until we get the update?

[fwiler]

Does it support sleep states with nvme and u.2. installed? Or even just nvme. And is no bifurcation confirmed or is it just the particular card you tested? Thanks.

[TheChadXperience]

Is it just me, or does it seem like most of the problems with this unit is that they ran out of space? I mean, just design it a little bit bigger, next generation. Yeah, people gonna be OK with that. We'd MUCH rather have the functionality and room to work with. It would still be small enough. Why does it need to be so little, to begin with? It's not like it needs to be portable! It doesn't run on batteries. You'd still need to plug it in.

Also, I'd want more gen 4 or 5 NVMe slots, so I can use larger capacity drives. Gen 3 is pretty llmited in size. I don't care about the speed so much as the capacity in a system like this, since we don't have the space for adding more drives.

[Darkk]

Not bad little machine. Although a little pricey. Also, I am curious about the 4 port 2.5 gig NIC add on card, what is the model number for it? Thinking might use it for pfsense.

[jonathanbutler]

There is a Radeon RX 6400 that is low profile single slot if you want to use a slightly better gpu in it.

[variable_]

Is it just me or did you say MiniForum? (without the S in between).

Damn, this looks awesome and powerful for its size