Lets hope for a video about it in the tinyminimicro project.
Eh, I got a feeling
@Patrick would do a video on it, but it probably won't be under the TinyMiniMicro banner. It's bigger than than a t730 thin client so it's not a TinyMiniMicro machine. It's more like an SFF that has aspirations to be a server.
I personally think the EC200a is far superior to any of the tinyminimicro's, but it isn't sustainable. Once this current supply runs out, it might be hard to find replacements. Also the upgrades for it are few and pretty hard to find at a reasonable cost. But it does have its own niche - having iLO in such a small footprint is pretty damn good.
I would not call this machine "far superior" to the TinyMiniMicros. The TinyMiniMicros have wide availability, multiple vendors, cheap laptop parts, VPro/AMT/AMD DASH remote management, low power consumption and ships ready out of the box with pre-baked OS licenses, which gives them longevity as both a mini server and an HTPC. Some of the TinyMiniMicros have better CPUs than the D1518, most (anything past Intel Broadwell or AMD Steamroller) will have 64GB RAM ceilings via a pair of 32GB DDR4 SODIMMs. Some (the Lenovo m720q and etc) have PCIe slots. This machine is a bit bigger than most of the TinyMiniMicros (it's 254mm x 254mm x 47mm, which makes it ~3L - most of the TinyMiiniMicros are 1.5L or less). It beats out the SFF cousins of the TinyMiniMicros, but just barely. In order for it to be "far superior" to the TinyMiniMicros it'll need to be something like a Lenovo ThinkSystem SE350 - Xeon-D 2000 series, quad DIMM slots supporting up to 256GB of RAM, XClarity controller, PCIe slot, either 3 or 5 M2 storage slots and dual power supplies, all in a server the size of 4 TinyMiniMicro machines stacked 2 deep, front-to-back. At least
@Patrick massively geeked out on it (as did I...until I saw one ramp up its 3 fans on a video...nope, that would not go into my home)...
It's basically an HPe Microserver Gen10 plus that had a soldered 3 year old Xeon D 1500, had its quad drive bay cut in half (unlike the Gen10+ this thing has an M2 SATA, which makes it more useful), no PCIe slot, went through the 3 year amortized cycle under someone else and it's dumped on the secondary market. If you have spare RAM, 3.5" drives and don't mind jury rigging drive mounts, sure, go for it. It might make for an interesting pfsense box for GigE connections, but what else would it be good for? Not enough RAM slots to be a better virt machine than the TinyMiniMicros (and if it’s a home lab why would you need ECC/RDIMM? It’s not like they are cheaper than laptop SODIMM), too power hungry to make for a good 2-bay home NAS, no 10GbE, and no way to mount it later on as it has no PCIe.