Work station

MS-01

The MS-01 is the first mini workstation PC introduced by Minisforum. Unlike the ordinary mini PC on the market, it has a total of two 2.5G ports and two 10G ports. The maximum data transfer speed of 25G can be achieved via these four interfaces. What other uses does the MS-01 have with multiple ports for everyday use?

1. SMB mode

2. Link aggregation

3. Standalone mode

4. Bridge mode

5. PON stick

PCI-E 4.0 x8 ports

The MS-01 also has a PCIE 4.0 x8 connector. The most common use of this connector is to install a discrete graphics card, but besides discrete graphics cards, there are many other devices that can be expanded, such as network cards, SSD array cards, etc. Connecting a network card can be done directly through a PCIE card. If you connect the SSD array card, you can group all-flash array NAS.

To connect the SSD array card, choose the adapter card with PLX, so that four M.2 PCIE4 can be connected. In this way, the original three M.2 ports can be converted into a combination of 7-bay NAS. If this is not enough, you can also connect the original left side of the M.2 port to connect a larger U.2 hard disk. A dual 10GbE NAS host with 7 hard disk slots and 4 network ports provides both storage capacity and transmission speed.