If this can handle routing 10g this is a great choice to use as a router. It's actually quite difficult to find a gateway that's around this price and ISPs (at least here in Canada, or my part of Canada) are offering internet over 1Gbps at the same price as gigabit, but their routers are awful.

I use 10g between my main pc and my nas. It's amazing. I use nvmes for triple a, intensive type games, and almost everything else gets installed on the nas. There's great use cases for 10g.

I would guess that's not a hard limit. Maybe they decided to undersell it because many 4TB+ nvme drives are physically larger and/or require heat sinks, so they might not fit. I don't see any details on their web site though.

Given two drives with the same size, same heat output, and same interface, it shouldn't make a difference.

It's pretty common to see fake limits like that on spec sheets. I can definitely put more RAM in my motherboard than is officially supported since higher-capacity DIMMs are out in the same form factor now compared to when the mobo was released.

That is strange that they would have size limit for the SSD. Maybe it only supports single sided M.2 drives, but if that's the case, they should have just said it.

the pci slot would be able to be used for external storage, like connecting to a nas or das. serve the home found you can add one of these though I don't think they tested that it can hit the max theoretical throughput of 96gbps.

Hmm that's a good point. Though I think it shouldn't be too bad unless under heavy load all the time. I think the CPU is made for laptops. That said it'd definitely have to be doing more than just working as an opnsense box

Someone installed chimera os already! Should be in YouTube search results

I do think they’ll release an amd version

"Being a router" is what they are good for! Even needed.

Edit to be more specific: two switches in each of the 10gbit and redundant uplink would be a setup I can see, depending on your line.

No overkill there :)

It could also be your router/firewall/server combo.

WAN, LAN, management And one to grow on!

I updated it.

Got optic to SFP bridge from my ISP (only because I insisted on using my own router) , that was fed into SFP to RJ45 adapter that I have bought (via Amazon - apparantly the ISP's have lobbied to not import it here) and then connected my router.
That went somehow ok untill I switched ISPs , now the optic cable is fed into an ISP provided decryption module , paired specifically to the mac address of my router.

It's like the ISPs went onboard with upgrading to optic because they could excert more control over their customers.

Great info thanks. Definitely agree, it'd be worth it for the lower power draw and lower heat output.

I'm a beginner homelabber with just a NAS and a repurposed alienware laptop. I'd be able to offload all containers I'm running onto the ms-01. Also 4k video can be really hard on the CPU so even if it's overkill for just 4k video, that headroom is of course helpful, especially if you're running multiple containers, or even if you have two or more people in the household streaming simultaneously

SFP: Small Factor Pluggable (I had to look it up)

I love Minisforum, I own 2 of them and I'm looking to buy a 3rd one. But damn their website is atrocious