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.
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.
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.
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.
I’m wondering what all the Ethernet ports are good for in a home server setting? I have my box hooked up to the router but that’s it. Seems like overkill to me.
“Being a router” is what they are good for! Even needed.
Edit to be more specific: two switches in each of the 10gbit and redundant uplink would be a setup I can see, depending on your line.
No overkill there :)
I want one. The only thing stopping me is current server has ecc
Note that the 2x10G is SFP+ not SFP. I was briefly confused. I have tons of SFP+ stuff but no SFP gear whatsoever
I think $700-800 for a server with SFP ports sounds like good value in terms of price relative to capability, but the absolute price and capability are probably overkill for a residential use-case (even a homelab one). It’s a no-brainer if you’re the Other Linus (the Tech Tips one) and have unlimited budget for all the latest electro-bling in your house, but if you’re any sort of normal person you don’t need 10 gig networking yet.
Does Minisforum make anything with 4 ethernet ports and a <100W TDP in the <$300 range? If so, get that instead.
If I hadn’t just recently bought a Minisforum B550 Pro I would probably jump on this.
Looks like it would eat power in a 24/7 setup but might be useful as an alternative to multiple systems.