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Any minisforum users here?
Been looking at the store and planning on buying one for a storage server + replacing my existing home server soon
https://store.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-ms-01-workstation
https://store.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-ms-a2-workstation
https://store.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-ms-r1-workstation
https://store.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-bd895i-se-motherboard
been eyeing on the ms 01 and ms a2 for a while since it's small and im going to use it as a home server. Not a NAS since NAS OS is gay
Iamfumo
- What kind of server/pc do you use?4 votes
- MINISFORUM MS-01 Workstation75.00%
- MINISFORUM MS-A225.00%
- MINISFORUM MS-R10.00%
- MINISFORUM MS-S1 MAX 128GB Max AI Compute Edition0.00%
- MINISFORUM MS-S1 MAX 64GB Local AI Pilot Edition0.00%
- MINISFORUM MS-02 Ultra0.00%
- Mini PC series (MINISFORUM M2, UM9XX)0.00%
- NAS series (MINISFORUM N5)0.00%
- MINISFORUM BD895i SE / BD775i SE Motherboard0.00%
- Are you using it as a home pc or server?4 votes
- Home PC0.00%
- Server75.00%
- Both (home pc & server)0.00%
- Both (1 as home n another as server)25.00%
- What OS4 votes
- Proxmox VE50.00%
- Debian 1325.00%
- Winblows 11/ 1025.00%
Comments
7$
@beanman109
Fumo
Fumo
I am running this one MINISFORUM UN100P. They are generally great machines but this particular one has got very basic cpu - N100 [I think].
Shit is Shit
I use a BD775i SE as my main PC. Think I've had it for about a year now maybe. Works great.
veepeesss on sale
fumo
Optiplex'ing 15+ years. Have few really nasty thin clients. Fans spinning and beg for quick death - ignored. Paste on CPU - rock solid. But it still moves around those bytes. Dirty bytes. No, there is no money for some fancy bs.
Correct, but nice things can grow in shit.
Sometimes all you need to do is...
I have two MS-01s in my homelab, both with 96GB of Crucual RAM (pre-shortage buy). One has 2x4TB Crucial NVMe and one has 2x2TB FanXiang NVMe.
No regrets, unlike the HPE ML110 Gen11 which is a massive space heater and not much faster than the MS-01s, although I lose ECC RAM.
I use Rocky Linux 10 on mine, previously Rocky 9, but it wasn't an option in the poll. Debian is popular, but not everyone uses Debian or Proxmox. I prefer Red Hat-based distros myself.
ADDITION: If you can wait, maybe get the MS-03. Or the MS-01 at a discount.