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 > Not Another NUC Movie
 
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 Normally I'm a fan of big, beefy servers.  I really like my custom built AMD EPYC towers - watercooled 64C/128T with 512GB DDR4, handles pretty much anything I throw at them.
 
 However, I got kinda tired of having one running for some basic stuff  like DNS, FreeIPA/RH IDM, an OpenVPN server, etc services that glue my networks together.  *Plus I wanted to repurpose that big server to run OpenShift bare metal.*
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 I won't be getting into the unboxing or in-depth spec list, there are plenty of videos on YouTube about that - I'll mostly be going over how I'm using these SFF systems for a more efficient and resilient homelab.
 
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 ## BeeLink SER5 MAX and Kubernetes
 
 So my first task was to use Kubernetes to offload things like my DNS, StepCA, Vault, etc containers that I was already running with Podman on that big physical host.  For this I needed at least 3 hosts with a couple storage interfaces, and a decent count of cores and GBs of RAM.
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 Anywho, I'd highly recommend them for similar workloads - could even handle a few simple VMs really, but I wanted them dedicated to K8s without having to manage pets on specific nodes.
 
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 ## OnLogic CL250
 
 Next I needed something to run a couple things that don't work well on Kubernetes.  For this I tried another SFF system I had laying around - an OnLogic CL250.
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 So I ended up throwing it back into the bin from whence it lurked - pretty sad considering it's in the same 600-700 base price range of these other systems.  OnLogic of course has beefier systems but the price of those is a non-starter and I'd be skeptical of their quality and supply chain.
 
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 ## Minisforum MS-01
 
 So I still had the problem of running a few workloads on a tiny system.  Of course I could have gave in a gotten some sort of NUC but since Intel got rid of their NUC division I decided to stay away from that option.
 
-Another recommendation from the *#homelab homies* was a Minisforum MS-01 - a new box, slightly larger than the others, but with a list of dream-like specs.  2x10G SFP+ ports, bunch of cores, and up to 96GB of DDR5?!?!  After reading the [ServeTheHome article](https://www.servethehome.com/minisforum-ms-01-review-the-10gbe-with-pcie-slot-mini-pc-intel/) on the MS-01, I smashed that Order button like a cicada.
+Another recommendation from the *#homelab homies* was a Minisforum MS-01 - a new box, slightly larger than the others, but with a list of dream-like specs.  2x10G SFP+ ports, bunch of cores, and up to 96GB of DDR5?!?!  After reading the [ServeTheHome article](https://www.servethehome.com/minisforum-ms-01-review-the-10gbe-with-pcie-slot-mini-pc-intel/) on the MS-01, I smashed that Order button like a cicada going at my windshield.
 
 Supply chain sadness struck again - I ordered it in January and finally got it at the end of April...right when they started to become available on Amazon with week-out shipping :upside_down_face: