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Most powerful mini-pc/NUC for proxmox? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by NiceReaction8618@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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Looking to get 1 mini-pc or NUC-like to run proxmox. I’m aware that there are cheaper or better alternatives in different form factors, however I really need something as small as a NUC since I am working with a very small amount of space.

Ideally I could get something barebones so I could squeeze in 64gb of RAM and at least 2 tb of ssd storage. I’ve seen a few options on the market:

minisforum UM790 Pro (seeing some questionable reviews about reliability/longevity)
minisforum npb7 (doesn’t seem to support 64gb ram)
Intel NUC 13 Pro kit (no glaring issues, but I’m aware these are now discontinued)
GEEKOM IT13 (seems like a no-name brand)

Are there potentially better options that I may have missed?

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[–] dhaninugraha@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I currently run Proxmox 8.0.4 on an i5 NUC11 with 32GB of RAM and 1.5TB of SSD storage. There’s a single MySQL VM, and everything else runs as LXC containers — a couple of K3s nodes, Minecraft, Project Zomboid, dnsmasq, Tailscale, Prometheus, Grafana…

The thing runs cool and quiet, and it’s sitting atop my Synology DS420j, next to an APC BVX700LUI-MS.

I’m looking to experiment with Ceph and HA Proxmox, so I might add another NUC and/or a HPE Microserver G10 to my fleet. Keeps the whole setup compact and neat, and I can still run them all off of my existing UPS.