Hi,
Looking for recommendations for barebone like NUCs with WLAN, dual NIC 2.5gbps, Bluetooth, some good “oomph” and small formfaktor for proxmox + opnsense + Homeassistant…any ideas welcome thx
Check out Serve The Home - (the youtube channel might be easier)
Thwy reviewed a load of these a while back
Wow, thanks found immediately this… https://www.ikoolcore.com/collections/ikoolcore
All I am looking for
Minisforum or beelink make what you’re looking for. If you are considering setting up a 10gb Network, I would recommend an MS-01 . I’ve been using it for the past year and love it https://a.co/d/iwNATJb
My beelink has been great, I installed proxmox on it. I don’t think I’d trust the windows install from any of these vendors lol
Thanks. I am really excited about this one now when I looked a bit around at minisforum: EliteMini AI370. But maybe a bit overdone for mini homelab
Yes! All motherboards should come with SFP+ ports now!
Consider using a desktop.
Sure, small is cool, but you’ll soon want to add drives for a RAIDZ. Then you’ll want a faster CPU with more cores for more containers. Then how about a video card for AI or rendering. Honelabs grow, and you will want space for that growth. Plus, it’s probably cheaper.
I have one from Morefine. It works, but I hate the way these Chinese sellers put firmware on Google Drive as it feels super sketchy & lacks the source code (luckily this one doesn’t require exclusively Microsoft Windows executables unlike some other products I own).
I went with actual NUCs since they have 3 year manufscturers warannty. I had to replace one if the first 3 months already. Mine are NUC 11s but they appear out of stock on amazon now, for the varebones $400. Next time I am thinking NUC 13 pro tall since it also has another slot for storage as well.
Edit for additional Ethernet would have to use thunderbolt port which itself supports something like 30-40 GB/s. That or there are lid / exansions depending on the model.
