Generally speaking providing the media converter says it supports SFP+ and its not something like HP or Cisco you can use DACs from most brands
Thanks.Generally speaking providing the media converter says it supports SFP+ and its not something like HP or Cisco you can use DACs from most brands
There are manufacturers out there that also code the DACs for specific modules e.g. Cisco or HP if needed. Theres loads on certain online marketplaces
If you want to use fibre you can get SFP modules for that as well but the X710 can be a bit finnicky depending on the model of X710
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Theres nothing glaring at me to say they won't work, I've not used any from AliEx before but if they ate the same quality as those from 10GTek or H!Fibre you should be fine
Yeah, the converter would be the biggest query, especially ensuring that it doesn't run super hot either.
Cracking work, that looks like a pretty clean mod!!Yer tis lol...
Had some free time this afternoon so thought why not have a go...
10gtek dual 10gb rj45 nic fitted, had to cut off some of the half size bracket but no other fitting issues. Manufacture said fan not required but I've done it anyway given the compact build. Used my dremmel with some cutting discs to mod the cover. Had plenty of small nuts and bolts from RC modelling days so they came in handy.
£9, 3 x speed fan from amazon running off a usb port using 1.5w on maximum speed.. I have found the low setting seems fine at the moment extracting from the card so will see how that goes. My watt meter says the ms01 is using between 25 and 30w depending on what it's doing on the test bench including the fan on low. I'll be swapping it with my n100 mini pfsensev live firewall tomorrow hopefully. Good box but no 10gb interfaces so the ms01 will fully integrate with my 10gb lan &wan now...
Some pics. I'm no dremmel king so excuse any roughness haha
My friend printed my this free plan vertical stand I found. Looks good I think.
Thanks for your help and advice along the way. I'm sure I'll be back with questions in time haha..
Just need to get minisforum to refund the duty which is proving difficult even after they said they would....
Thanks. I just wish I knew how I could check the temps if even possible under pfsense. Under unbuntu I could use sensors for some info but I'm not sure how or if you can do this with pfsense. I have disabled the x710 for now in the bios as its not needed.Cracking work, that looks like a pretty clean mod!!
No worries on the questions, any help I can give I'm happy to, likewise keep us updated on the unit and its temps as it may end up being a fairly popular modification if it stays cool, especially with RJ45 10G installed as well
If its like OPNsense I think you can get extensions that'll let you measure the temperature
Marvellous stuff, glad to hear that progres is being made
thanks for the info. I assume you have to get under that rubber block to re-paste it? any tips on that? thanks - I think I would probably leave it for now unless the temps rocket but useful to know how to do it. I finally got my payment back - was not straight forward and took way over a week of chasing but got there in the end thankfully.Marvellous stuff, glad to hear that progres is being made
Regarding the 2.5Gbit ports on the MS-01. I haven't had any stability issues with them however they do seem to be a bit painful to work with as in Server 2022 the drivers for them have to be bodged to work on one of the units since Intel doesn't have any official drivers to use for "Server" grade operating systems and the other for love nor money can I get the AMT function to work for OOB management. It seems that the better option is to go the route you have and to use PCI-e add in cards for anything that needs a truly stable network connection on the units
26-30w is great and is the real push with these sort of units, don't get me wrong they are by no means enterprise grade but the amount of power you get in these considering the form factor and power consumption is amazing
I've added a third unit into my setup to use as a backup hypervisor and to host my Veeam VM and like my other two hosts it's loaded with an additional X710-DA2 card for 4x 10Gbit connectivity and it works just as good as the first two.
One discovery I did make is that it appears to have made it back to Minisforum HQ that the thermal paste being shipped with the units was poor as out of the box it had a noticeable thermal improvement so it appears that is consistently fixed going forward. I've still re-pasted the unit as whilst it was improved with the X710-DA2, 2x 32GB DIMMs and 2x 1TB NVMe SSDs it was still pushing 55c when under small loads (Admittedly with regular spikes to 55c but between 30 and 40) however after the MX4 was applied it now tops at 47 as a peak.
It's becoming a bit of an addictive habbit getting a hold of them
Glad to hear you got your money back from them
Excellent stuff, your setup looks very polished with the vertical mount
I don't have the exact measurements to hand however on the ServeTheHome forums link on one of the earlier posts there is a user who has the measurements photographed on there
