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"Based on publicly available information of workstation competitors as of October 3, 2016 with volume of at least 1 million units annually as of October 3, 2016 having This fine print, particularly the words "Xeon" and "ECC", let them conveniently ignore the 6th gen i7 NUC: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/nuc-kit-nuc6i7kyk...
See also the Intel NUC thing: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/nuc-kit-nuc6i7kyk... What really astonishes me though is how you can have these really nice machines and Apple doesn't bother to update the Mac mini. Seriously, an Apple version of this would be a nice desktop.
I have the Skullcanyon NUC, and this is not comparable. I've been waiting for someone to offer me ECC in a small form factor. This is the first time I've ever seen it.
What's a turbo Z drive? Can I swap it for a Samsung 860 Pro M.2? Can I have two M.2 devices to raid it? I don't want to lose my work. Edit: Liliputing says "There’s a 2.5 inch drive bay for a hard drive or SSD and an M.2 SATA SSD slot." ( https://liliputing.com/2016/11/msi-trident-compact-vr-ready-... )
Support for six displays out of the box is pretty cool. I'm glad manufacturers are finally supporting more than just one or two displays by default.
If you have 6 displays on your desk, why does it matter that your computer is tiny? Maybe this is a nice portable gaming box...
What's a turbo Z drive? Can I swap it for a Samsung 860 Pro M.2? Can I have two M.2 devices to raid it? I don't want to lose my work. Edit: Liliputing says "There’s a 2.5 inch drive bay for a hard drive or SSD and an M.2 SATA SSD slot." ( https://liliputing.com/2016/11/msi-trident-compact-vr-ready-... )
You can remove the included SSDs and populate it with up to 4 960 Pro SSDs for what I imagine would be 14/8 GB/s sequential read/write performance.
Unfortunately there's no way to buy it without the included SSDs, so you're better off with the unpopulated M.2/mini-SAS NVMe raid cards from Dell, HighPoint, or SuperMicro.
Does it sound like a jet engine? I was disappointed how noisy even the small Lenovo Thinkcentre desktops were.
It has to. 135W power supply for a device which is 8.5x8.5x2.3" There's no way that much heat is going to be quietly removed by those tiny fans. I'd love some high res photos of the inside so I could look up the data sheet of the fans in use. Considering HP servers ship with cooling ducts to direct airflow and this thing doesn't even seem to have them. I mean look at the CPU exhaust! From the photos it looks like the…