@cowboy Ouch, hopefully it get solved quickly with the financial impact and you next supplier works better.

@ChristianL added another ASrock-build with i5. With a BR-disc burner. Passed though the SATA adapter to a Debian VM to burn archive of data. Worked smooth in a way that the drive got identified and I can open/close the tray. Now I just need to solve my network issue and then can use k3b to burn backup on M-Disc/BR

And I really liked to move VM from the first little MS-01 just over to the new system.

@cowboy Hi, nice to meet you. I really like the formfactor of the MS-01. Sweet little box. Installation was smooth. No issues at all. USB in, boot, done. Then of course I had my own learning curve in getting VMs up and running and XOA Community installed. But thanks to trial version of XOA and the YT stuff from Tom Lawrence it got much easier.
My only painpoint still open with the performance of my VLAN routing desire. Not sure if OPNsense or xcp-ng or the combination is the issue. Would be nice to have a second (or third) MS-01 to test further. And I fear that will actually soon happen

Hi community,

small home lab user here; used ESXi in the past but as most of us I had to find a new home. And happy to have found one with xcp-ng.

My home network is based on Ubiquiti equipment. One UDM SE, one 24 Port L3 switch (the X-mas version with Etherlightning) and a 8 port 10Gb aggregation switch. Three AP serving the wifi part. And an AMD-based storage server running unRAID; also with a dual SFP+ NIC.

On the WAN side of the UDM SE I have a 10Gb fiber line (don't need; but wanted and rather cheap here in Japan). Overkill but fun.

xcp-ng I started two month ago on a small Minisforum MS-01. That box has a i12900H CPU with right now 32GB RAM; the main reason why I got that is it has 2 SFP+ Intel ports, 2x2.5Gbits RJ45 and 2 Thunderbolts 4. Connectivity in every way.

I like Linux in all flavors; since the death of CentOS I'm back to Debian. Graphical user interfaces are served well with my Macs. No Windows (except the one laptop I have to use for my day job).

I run right now an OPNsense 24.1.7-4 on it for testing VLAN setup. VLAN are rather new to my but with the easy setup in the UI stuff I have quite a number of those to separate my son's network from mine, segregate IoT stuff etc.
Overkill ? Oh yes. But fun too.

I really like what I see with xcp-ng. Don't miss ESXi anymore.