Pretty happy with it so far. Idling at 16w with a Radeon W6800 GPU that I'm planning to use, if necessary, to augment transcoding using Proxmox 9.0. The fact that the CPU/Mobo tray slides in and out is so cool, and it uses a standard edge connector for that. The expandability with two USB4, Occulink, and the x4 PCIe slot are sellers -- while, yes, pretty expensive, I'm long from completely tapped out on expand-ability just getting to where I'd like to be now.
For those in Microcenter territory, it was not out on the shelf, and I had to ask about it. They had 2 pros and 3 non-pros in stock. The outer box was slightly damaged, and also the inner box, but no damage to the unit itself. Mine came with a Crucial 16GB non-ECC sodimm. Wish they'd saved the $50 and sold it "barebones," but I can see the business logic. I never even tried the native SW. Proxmox installed via Ventoy on the first power-up.
The chassis is metal, and it does have a nice heft to it. The nearly 300W power supply has an ETL listing, although I haven't checked yet to see it its legit.
I've hear people reporting build quality issues. I went over this pretty thoroughly. The PCB looks good, no wonky components. All the hardware was installed where I'd expect it. Lock-tite type compound is used liberally. My only real salty-ness so far is that two of the M.2's are x1 only, but PCIE4 ... and several of my "extra" M.2 drives are PCIe3 -- not Minisforum's issue, other than the usage of the PCI lanes "to the max" ...
I may pull on of them and put a Google Coral in one of them at some point once I move Frigate over.
