Minisforum MS-01 announced. 2x10g sfp+, 2x2.5gbe, pci slot, 3xm2 slots. 2xUSB4 40g. What do we think? - eviltoast

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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    10 months ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    Plex Brand of media server package
    SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage
    SSD Solid State Drive mass storage

    4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 8 acronyms.

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