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       Minsiforum mini server - Intel 13th Gen Raptor Lake, 2.5GbE and
       10GbE
        
       Author : transpute
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2023-12-30 20:32 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | Firerouge wrote:
       | It looks like a nice small form factor server.
       | 
       | The biggest bummer about it is that all 3 M.2 slots have
       | different speeds, PCIe 4.0x4, PCIe 3.0x4, and PCIe 3.0x2. If
       | you're going to do raid across them, you're going to end up with
       | the performance of the slowest of them.
        
         | Saris wrote:
         | With 10GbE networking would it even matter much? You'll be
         | capped at 1,250MB/s by the network, so PCIe 3.0 x2 will still
         | be enough for that.
        
           | Firerouge wrote:
           | Minisforum is actually advertising it as being a 65Gbit
           | capable machine. Using link aggregation, presumably, you
           | could do a lot better than just 10Gbit as a NAS.
           | 
           | > The MS-01 is capable of building a high-speed network
           | experience with two 10Gbps SFP+ LAN ports, two 2.5Gbps RJ45
           | LAN ports, and two USB4 ports, providing a total maximum
           | Ethernet throughput of 65Gbps.
           | 
           | Network throughput isn't necessarily the bottleneck though,
           | if you're running a database that needs to do a lot of
           | lookups and concatenation for each query, you could still be
           | bottleneck by the 3.0 x2 while still having headroom on the
           | 10GbE
        
             | Saris wrote:
             | Fair, although I feel like if you're doing that level of IO
             | you probably want actual enterprise hardware or something.
        
       | amluto wrote:
       | I wish they would release an ECC version.
       | 
       | Also, those listed NVMe capacity limits are ridiculous. The era
       | of motherboards that limit disk capacity should have ended 20
       | years ago or so. I assume there aren't actually any practical
       | limits.
        
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