MS-01

Forget local LLMs for the time being unless you want to experiment with a Strix Halo mini pc and that’s gonna cost you a lot more (minimum 2K). If you want to do LLMs with an Nvidia GPU, you need to spend far more than that just to match the VRAM (albeit faster than Strix Halo, which is still faster

Keep an eye on r/homelabsales and r/hardwareswapuk if you’re not already, they usually go cheap. Or, if you fancy treating yourself for Christmas, I got a minisforum MS-01 a while back and it’s been great.

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

The MINISFORUM MS-01 Mini Workstation Core i9-12900H is $470 on Amazon and it has two ports for 10gb and two 2.5gb nics. The processor is a bit overkill. They also have a MINISFORUM MS-01 Mini Workstation Core i5-12600H for $400.

Insane. Even buying last gen refurbished is starting to go through the roof. I'm starting to wonder if buying a cluster of 6 smallish small form factor computers for $1200 each rather than one expensive server isn't the way to go. With a bunch of NanoKVMs you even get remote console and power cycle.

Si tu n'es pas expert et tu n'as pas le temps ou la volonté d'en apprendre plus, prends une solution clé en main comme Synology, Qnap, Asustor ou Terramaster. Si tu as le temps à passer sur du software et pas hardware: Minisforum MS-01 (3 disques NVMe 4TB, attention au coût en ce moment, ça pique) o

also, u/twobarb, i assume you are getting machines with vpro? dunno what the tarrifs are doing to current prices--and i would be scared to completely switch off onlogic cause they are reliable, but the features and prices for fitlet and minisforum's ms-01... jesus christ on a bike.

It will obviously depend on cost. Valve cannot sell the thing at a loss like other console manufactures. Sony learned this when they allowed Linux to be installed on the PS3. People were buying it without ever buying a game, which made the whole "sell console at loss, recover costs from game sales"

if you are looking for cheap hardware to run 25gbps - Minisforum MS-01 is one of the best options https://www.microcenter.com/product/689618/minisforum-ms-01-s1390-mff-vpro-workstation-mini-pc Intel Core i9 13900H (1.9GHz) Processor 32GB DDR5-5200 RAM Intel Iris Xe Integrated Graphics 1TB SSD Dual 2