First off, thanks for all of your mini PC reviews. I found them super-informative! After going back and forth between the Beelink SER6 MAX 7735HS and the SER7 7740HS, I decided that, at $439 on Amazon, the SER6 MAX was the way to go. I was in the middle of setting it up, when the SER7 went on sale for $533. I just couldn't pass up that deal, and bought a 4TB SSD to put into it, since they're so cheap now. While the SER7 isn't the 21.4% premium atop the SER6 MAX, I'm still going to keep that one and return the SER6 MAX. I really love Beelink's products 😊
Is the TRIGKEY S5 Pro Max Ryzen 7 5800H with 32GB RAM and a 1TB storage capacity a suitable choice for a home server or home lab? I can get it for $270, and my usage won't involve gaming. As I'm new to the concept of a home server, I'm curious about your thoughts on the price. Additionally, do you have any alternative mini PCs you might recommend over this one?
What exactly are you trying to do with your homelab? It’s certainly a fantastic choice but it might end up being overkill for what you want to do. If you’re not 100% sure what you want to do with your homelab, I’d get the TRIGKEY at that price. You get a fantastic price to perform ratio that will more than likely not end up being a limiting factor unless you’re gonna need big storage or pcie expansion.
As of right now, i dont have anything in particular in mind, i wont be doing any form of Plex etc. i want to tinker with dockers vms, etc. also i wont be doing gaming on it. but i dont want to be limited either later on@@EVOTech1
I ordered a Ser6 Max a few days ago, dont have it in my hands yet, it says up to 2tb storage, has anyone stuck a 4tb in theirs yet to see what happens?
it will work with 4TB no problem. I tried a 990 PRO a friend bought for his desktop on the SER6 MAX expansion slot and it worked perfectly. there should theoretically be no real limitation on how large of a drive it can have. as long as it's compliant with NVMe, it shouldnt matter the size. only real limit would be the gen speed. but if 16TB drives were released tomorrow, they should work. same with sata drives. there should be no real restrictions on either unless they do some fuckery in the bios for whatever unholy reason.
@@EVOTech1Thankyou, I thought this should be the case but I didn't want to order one and find out that it didn't work. I guess I'll get one on the way.
@@AusKipper1 yeah I completely understand. I wish they would stop marketing stuff like that as if there’s actually a limit. Part of the reason they would always say 2TB is because in terms of HDD, the largest size at 2.5in is 2TB. No manufacturer is pushing for denser HDDs at that size so they’ve been at 2TB for a good while now. Because these systems are usually also sold in more developing markets, there is more use of 2.5in HDDs, so they specify that it goes to 2TB for marketing on HDD expansion, but SSDs can go much denser than that at the size and there is no real limit they can place without doing so much more work than would ever be worthwhile for them.
I have the Trigkey 5560U, so bit faster CPU but weaker GPU. Got it for 210 Euro, the 7735HS from Beelink is here far over 500 Euro. Easy decision ;) edit: could not find a 16/500 for the SER6, only 32GB/1TB, but it's 700 Euro. You have a really good price for the SER6.
Euro pricing is so painful to see sometimes. you went with the right choice there. unless you really needed that gaming performance, the 5560U is still rock solid and I love how quiet the system is. sometimes I forget I left it on for days just because it never makes a noise.
@@EVOTech1 I'm very happy with the 5560U and the Trigkey is fine so far as well. And 210 incl. VAT/Salestaxes was probably the best deal I've could get. For gaming I have a Steamdeck😆
