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Minisforum MS-01 Review: Almost Perfect Home Lab Server
Minisforum MS-01 Review: Almost Perfect Home Lab Server
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The new Minisforum MS-01 is a great new mini PC from Minisforum that bridges the gap between typical mini PCs and an actual mini workstation that can be used for home lab environments to run server workloads. We take a look at the Minisforum MS-01, VMware ESXi, running VMs, processor…
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I recently purchased a mini from venus series with an i7 gen 12 and it comes with 2 Intel nics. It is venus series. Installed esxi 8.02 on nvme. The bios on the venus is much more basic but does support virtualization. I am not sure I would recommend as a reliable home lab setup eventhough I got it to work. My super micro custom build is still going strong since 2019. I do like the idea of a smaller and quiter system. Running and installing VMs on nvme is amazing fast.
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I currently have a SuperMicro SYS-5028D-TN4T with a Xeon D-1541 that I am using as a VMware home lab server that I keep running most of the time with various VMs running. I really wonder if this could be an upgrade to that. I’d like something newer that is quiet, small but beefy, reliable and won’t break the bank. Have you done some good VMware testing with this? Any suggestions? I do have a couple NUCs that I’ve tried but they have tended to crash or freeze up. Would be interested in seeing some testing of this box you have with VMware workload.
While from technical standpoint MS-01 has no competitors, I think Chinese IT products are unsafe to use on a secure server network (even for homelabbers).
Would be happy to see some feature parity from someone like Asus.
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vendor lockin and lack of due diligence is what i saw here
Rather than a Xeon, I was thinking more like the C3000 series of Atom processors for lower TDP, QuickAssist and ECC memory support. That fits the home lab market better than a Xeon, IMO.
I've got 3 coming that will be my new VM compute cluster, replacing some old HP EliteDesk 800 G2 machines. Waiting patiently to ship at the end of March, and happy to see all the tips/tricks with these as possible before they arrive!
Absolutely great video, I think this would be a great home lab environment, that isn't a space hog or if you don't have the room for a rack
Nice review!
But man, what a price even for a barebone!
Better buy yourself components or a second hand server. for that price
I bought one a few days ago. Unfortunately, delivery has not been scheduled until March. I'm probably a completely atypical user, because I've ordered an Oculink card for the internal PCIE port and hope to be able to cover my gaming needs as well as my server applications.
This looks really cool.
Thanks for the video. I just ordered mine today (13900H barebone). Intel's site says 96gb memory but Minisforum says 64gb. Does anyone know which is correct? I ordered 96gb before noticing Minisforum's says 64! Haha. I hope I got it correct! LoL.
I got a 990 Pro for the boot drive but haven't decided on the other drives and if I'll need a different graffics card.
I've been having trouble finding graffics cards that are available and what sizes fit if anyone has advice on that too. Thanks for the fun video!! Jason
I appreciate your videos, but honestly what would set you apart is actually showing the difference of runnning the hypervisors with the efficiency cores on and off.
Even something as simple as a single VM using all the cores for some blender test.
Proxmox can handle P+E cores together just fine, as long as you don't max out the system, then it has a stroke. Hyper-V supposedly handles them fine as well (I have not tested). With the broadcom acquisition, I could really care less about labbing Vmware at this point. However, I would not want this if it were a Xeon, and there is absolutely no workload I'd want to run that needs more than 12 logical cores and 96 GB of RAM, which the MS-01 can support. A lot of homelabbers also want to use quicksync with Plex, as it does great. I have an MS-01 on order, but it hasn't shipped yet, and I'm going to replace my entire cluster with one MS-01.
Thanks a lot, the best review about ms01) i would like ms02 with 7945hx)) 16 cores 32 threads. So, looking for new mini server for esxi 8.0 and cant decide between beelink gtr7, hx99g hx100g or build one with bd790i and pdu inside… def not ms01, bye bye intel with crappy eff cores
how many watts does it consume when idle?
Does proxmox really come along with P and E Cores? Heard that it will crash under load?!
the most important is more and more memory – I have Ryzen 7 5800H in my Beelink with 64GB RAM and CPU is at 5% in average while memory is at 80% with the VMs and CTs I have. ECC is not that crucial like the amount of RAM
Does it come with any RAID controller?
Nice video. Did ESXi recognize the NICs out of the box ?
Hey, do you have that server rack inside your office? How loud are those?
Good video, i want one of these but they are pretty pricy..
A Xeon would be great but when you consider the wattage difference between these processors and most Xeons I'm guessing the cooling in this box makes that conversation a non-starter.
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