MS-01

Low profile, no external power and single slot would be awesome for a Minisforum ms-01 or ms-a2, but I guess we're stuck with Frankenstein cards if we really want that.

Minisforum MS-01 Why this over the MS-A2? This has intel iGPU great for plex emby etc. Also you can use SR-IOV and slice the iGPU up and pass a slices to different VMs. You can do this with the AMD iGPU. I this box you get 3xNVMe 2xSFP+ Low profile PCIe slot (great for small gpu or HBA and run a who

Eu de ex am pus un minisforum ms-01 cu proxmox/opnsense, ca router, si un minisforum ms-a2 cu 128gb ddr5/12tb nvme tot cu proxmox pt gazduit diverse servicii. Am ales modelele astea pt ca au 2x2.5 + 2x10g sfp, consuma putin, stocare buna, poti pune si un intel arc pt encode in jellyfin etc.

My minisforum ms-01 can do all that. And more powerful. If you get a MINISFORUM N5 Pro AI NAS you can replace your PC and NAS all in one.

Get a minisforum MS-01/02 it has 2 x 10gb (X710)sftp ports, and 2x 2.5 gbit utp. You can get with intel(01) or AMD (02) cpu's. It's small and performs perfectly. Only the battery fails after some time, so when it does not boot anymore. Just replace the battery, 3 min work. I use opnsense on proxmox.

My 2 cents: I have 11TB of music files, all FLAC, all at least CD-Quality (some high res purchases too). Roon helps me find the music I want to listen to but don’t know it yet. The music discovery is awesome. The detail in the metadata (artist info, album info) is exceptional - it’s almost like read

running an llm in a 10-inch rack is a fun challenge. you're gonna want as much vram as you can fit. for that size, something like a Minisforum MS-01 with a decent gpu could work, though fitting a full-size card is tough. i've seen people have good luck with qwen 2.5 7b or 14b models - they run decen

for hyper-v with a handful of DCs and light VMs, three tiers that all stay quiet: top pick: Minisforum MS-01. i13900H or i9-13900H, dual 10GbE + dual 2.5GbE, dual m.2 NVMe + one u.2 slot, takes 96GB DDR5 SO-DIMM. idles around 15W, ramps to 40W under actual load. ~$700 barebones or $1100 with 32GB/1T

Wow I had almost the same thing - from 2019 to about 2024 I had an Nvidia Shield Pro with 2 external drives (4tb each), one for movies one for tv shows. I really didn’t end up using it all that much because it just didn’t work great, I’d kept having to reinstall the PMS app because things were buggy

If other equipment is possible, you’ll be much happier running Immich on a minipc and let the NAS just be storage. I run Immich on a minisforum MS-01 and storage is a SMB mount on my Synology DS1521+.