MINISFORUMMS-01 Workstation Core i9-13900H Mini PC Barebone Version Without RAM, SSD and OS, 2xUSB4 1xHDMI Display, 2x2.5G LAN Port, 3X SSD Slot, 2x10G SFP+ Port, Support Discrete Graphics Cards

The MS-01 is a great, full features solution for running Proxmox. It small, quiet, has plenty of CPU power and connectivity. The PCIe slot is a little awkward to deal with, but that is really nit-picking. Super happy with the purchase.

Bought this to run Proxmox, replaced a 3 node Intel i5 nuc cluster with it. I have 8 VM running on it and doesn't even make dent in the CPU usage, it says 64Gb of Ram but will run 96GB with not problem, added a SFP+ RJ45 for the back haul to my NAS, it has 2 SFP+ slots but using it with RJ45 they run pretty hot I don't think I'd run more than one RJ45 SFP+, very impressed it's reasonably quite and doesn't run too hot.

I have two of these in a proxmox cluster. I added 64 GB of RAM and a 4TB NVME and smaller NVME for the boot drive. Both SFP+ ports are being used one for VMs and one for NFS storage. Connectivity and stability have been rock solid. VMs are very snappy most Linux based and the system has been up 24x7 since I got them and no issues. Run cool with current workload. They are running a nine node K8S cluster. I plan to add a third unit for full high availability and then the K8S cluster will be evenly distributed across the machines. I also have a few other VMs that are running on them too. Highly recommend for anyone wanting to setup a home lab and minimize their power bill.

I purchased one of these direct back in January- was noted they would not ship till mid feb. Mid feb comes and goes- tried to contact them at the end of Feb to ask what was going on with shipping. Sat waiting for any response in their chat cue for over an hour and never reached anyone. Emailed them several times to cancel this mess and finally they did so. DO NOT recommend you ever try to get support as it seems very difficult to do so. As I needed this unit for critical backups I ordered directly from Amazon as it would ship immediately while their direct buy was cheaper at least Amazon had them in stock and it was worth the extra cost to get it in less than a week.Overall the unit is exactly what I needed and works as specified. Users note that the heat compound needs to be changed as it is not good on the cpu- and overall the build quality is decent. As for longevity? no idea but it is great for fast data transvers between M.2 drives and is excellent for my backup consolidation needs. Will to transfer test real world tests with it when I am done and will keep it even though any kind of warranty will be like pulling teeth ass it probably would be through China - you ship it back and hope kind of garbage. YMMV but it works and does what it is supposed to for now. Support is terrible don't expect any.

The build quality of this mini-pc is great. It is very powerful to support 96G DDR5 memory and 4 M.2 SSD in addition to 2x 2.5G port and 2x 10G ports. This could be used as a proxmox node to host RKE2. The only issue might be heating but vendor confirmed that it is not to be worries about.

Only downside is they don’t mention your U.2 drive can only be a maximum thickness of 7mm. If you buy a 14mm drive (most drives over 2tb), it won’t fit. But it went together great, esxi has no issues running on it (with efficiency cores disabled), and setting up vPro was fairly easy after watching a YouTube video on it. Can’t wait for the Ryzen version, going to snatch up 2 of them.

Coming from a Dell R710, this has been a good upgrade. Main benefits are the obvious ones - much lower power usage, significantly quieter, less heat and takes up a fraction of the space. Installed 96GB of RAM, one SSD for VMs and another one for data.Had a minor fan issue out of the box but the seller was responsive and got me a replacement part quickly. Good option if you're looking to retire an old power-hungry server.I've been running Proxmox on it with various VMs / containers and have been tinkering with connecting this thing to my GCP environment over VPN. Would love to get another for a cluster configuration.

Good so far very quick