- It has transformed my home lab experience
- Excellent purchase. Highly recommend for anyone starting a home lab
- They are the best
- 5 stars: 6 (75%)
- 4 stars: 2 (25%)
- 3 stars: 0 (0%)
- 2 stars: 0 (0%)
- 1 star: 0 (0%)
Possibly the Perfect OPNsense Appliance
I purchased a refurbished MS-01 with the Intel Core i5-12600H specifically to replace a much larger dedicated OPNsense firewall.
For this application, the MS-01 may be just about perfect.
Two native 10Gb SFP+ ports, two 2.5Gb Ethernet ports, expandable DDR5 memory, and multiple NVMe storage options provide remarkable flexibility in such a compact system.
I'm running OPNsense on a dedicated Samsung NVMe with ZFS. The combination of physical network interfaces and VLAN support allows me to separate my internal network, public-facing infrastructure, and IoT devices without adding network cards or relying entirely on VLANs.
The i5 provides more than enough processing capability for my current requirements, with considerable room for expansion.
Coming from a full-size Acer system, the difference in physical footprint is extraordinary.
BIOS configuration could be more straightforward, but the overall hardware platform is exceptionally well suited to this application.
At the refurbished price, the value is difficult to beat.
If you're building a serious OPNsense firewall, the MS-01 deserves a very close look.
Only had it online for about a week, but it has transformed my home lab experience. I was able to combine my container server, NAS, and build servers into one amazing platform.
Shipping was fast.
Received the item, everything looks good for a refurbished unit. However several of the screws are stripped. Couldn’t get one out for the nvme but was able to slide the bracket far enough to mount one nvme.
Installed memory and os. Everything is working as expected.
I have three ms-01 in my homelab, I've been using these products for a while now.. they are the best
Excellent purchase. I bought three and highly recommend them for anyone starting a home lab. I’m already looking forward to my next purchase.
Five stars all day.
I had to replace the WIFI card it was a generic card but it did not work. I had installed all drivers so I ordered one $12 not a big deal I put 32gb ram in it and now it runs great overall a great product
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I bought the barebones model. It's wonderful. I use a egpu 3060 12gb with oculink adapter pcie slot . It plays games fine using win 10 ltsc . It was fun setting it up

















