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Beelink SEi12 Core i7 Review as a Home Server
Beelink SEi12 Core i7 Review as a Home Server
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A full review of the Beelink SEi12 mini PC as a home server running enterprise hypervisors. Can this little mini PC with the P cores and E cores be used for a home server in your home lab? We take a look at this and see which hypervisor is best to run with this unit.
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Biggest problem with a lot of these mini's as home servers is networking, Minisforum MS-01 and Qotom Q20332G9-S10 both have SFP+ so it looks like some of the mini pc vendors are taking notice of homelabbers who have been asking for this. I'm sure there are a lot of use cases where 1gb lan would be fine or you can band aid the issue with USB but I wouldn't personally bother with less than 10gb for a server at this point and I'm guessing most people would want at least 2.5.
I like those little Mini PCs, they're power efficient and can run a decent size of VMs. The only issue I found with those machines is sometimes they support only 1Gbe Ethernet port, and from a home server perspective is very slow, specially if you want to connect the server to a NAS server, or run some services like Plex. I think these days 2.5Gbe should be the minimum requirement for a home PC.
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I was looking buying 2 or 3 of the Ryzen based models to run a small cluster, they have notably better power efficiency but i dont know how Proxmox copes on AMD. I would love a review of one of those. Also i have USBC 2.5gb adapters in my current (old desktop pcs cluster) and that works extremely well.
My man, you have to check out the new minisforum Ms-01. 13900h or 12900h, with pci expansion. 10gbe x 2, 2.5gbe x 2, it's like mini PCs are actually listening to their customers.
The proxmox kernel deals with efficiency cores really well. It will avoid using them until the first faster hyperthreaded cores are utilized fully. It’s best to leave them on and leave it alone. The scheduler will use them appropriately. Pinning workloads on efficiency cores and only those cores will not make your system more efficient over all. There is a great YouTube video about how proxmox deals with the cores. I don’t know about other hypervisors though.
For the price, this is a powerhouse. Yes, for a few hundred dollars more you enter the realm of server-esque tech, but a few of these in a cluster and you get power minus the draw.
Have you seen the specs of the minisforum ms-01?
I have SER 5 Pro with 64GB RAM and Ryzen 7 and all is ok except not enough RAM. Oh, and I had to add usb NIC 2.5Gbps. It is getting a git hot but not too much.