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Love my Minisforum MS-01. 3x m.2 slots, supports 96gb ram, 2x 10g ports, 2x 2.5g ports, and has a pcie slot for things like external hba or small gpu. A lot of
by internet101010 2y ago
Love my Minisforum MS-01. 3x m.2 slots, supports 96gb ram, 2x 10g ports, 2x 2.5g ports, and has a pcie slot for things like external hba or small gpu.
A lot of people buying mini pcs would rather go with AMD but are stuck with Intel due to the need for Quick Sync in order to transcode Plex.
- windexh8er 2y agoExactly this. I'm stuck on Intel QuickSync for home media and local NVR. The N200 is also packaged up nice for home firewall / edge compute. I'm running Proxmox on one with hardware passthru of NICs for OpnSense firewalling. Supports 32GB of RAM and allows for a ton of containers or LXC on the edge.
- metadat 2y agoDoes AMD really not have anything comparable? This is the first I've heard of Quick Sync (and admittedly I could always be clueless, I'm surprised to only encounter it now).
- newdee 2y agoDon’t forget the dual Thunderbolt/USB 4.0 ports which can also do point-to-point networking at about 40Gbps. Planning on building a 3 node Proxmox cluster using TB as the fabric for Ceph and cluster traffic. Truly fantastic machines.
- aynyc 2y agoMight be nitpicking, but that's a $600 piece of equipment. Most people think of mini-pcs as low cost system. Yes, beelink makes very good product. They actually listen to consumers. They iterate fast and release product lines very fast. I just worry about long term support.