Question Do you have experience with BeeLink as MiniPC for Linux?

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I've owned a couple Beelinks and they are both still in service (daughter has one and friend's kids have the other). They are excellent systems in terms of quality and reliability. Never experienced heat or noise issues with either and should perform well for your stated uses, in general.

What kind of server are you planning for and with how much storage? How many actual users?
 
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USAFRet

Rock solid build, and quiet.
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Thanks for that point

It also serves as the 24/7 interface to my house security cams, and playing video/music from my NAS.
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Do you have any kind of issue about heat? it in general and mostly for the SSD

I see no reason why one would not serve your purposes.
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Ok, thank you

COLGeek

I've owned a couple Beelinks and they are both still in service (daughter has one and friend's kids have the other). They are excellent systems in terms of quality and reliability.
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Pls, could you share each model? Thank You

Never experienced heat or noise issues with either and should perform well for your stated uses, in general.
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Thanks for that point

What kind of server are you planning for and with how much storage? How many actual users?
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Sure, Spring Boot Web app ... the storage to start with 4TB and users would be 15/20

To you both;

  1. Pls, could you take photo of your mini pc with an iron, bottle/box of milk, cereal box? I want have a perfect reference about the size. Thanks in advance
  2. What is the weight of the Mini Pc?
  3. Would be BeeLink again your best option? Or Do you have perhaps other preference? and Why?
  4. What is the consumption of energy? I mean it increase your bills?

Thanks in advance to you both
 
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Pictures? Sorry, but that isn't possible. Both are 1000+ miles away from me, in opposite directions.

The GTR Pro is in California and the Beelink Mini PC SER5 MAX is in Virgina.

I also had one of these: ASRock Industrial AMD Barebone 4X4 BOX-4800U

All three were tiny. Quiet. Ran cool.

This is an old picture of the GTR Pro (first one I had and now with daughter in CA) comparing size to a mouse.

https://imgur.com/kBw9G3r
View: https://imgur.com/kBw9G3r
 
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What you are looking at (in terms of current models) are more capable than the ones I had. I don't see any computational issues in terms of being able to support multiple users. I would suggest you have plenty of memory and 4TB will fill up fast, depending on local vs. server storage of files (for 15-20 users).
 
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I use a very similar mini-pc brand (Trigkey) as a web server with Rocky Linux 8 and it runs fine. Temp around 45c. However, we had some CPU temperature issues with a Dell mini-pc running with the same OS, but the exact same model running with Rocky 9 had no problems. Our hypothesis is that Rocky 8 was unable to manage the Intel CPU clock properly so it was always at max boost.

So you need to be careful with Linux on mini-PCs since they are generally not built with very efficient cooling systems. But if you use Ubuntu you might not get this kind of issues though (I have a hard time to believe that Ubuntu 25.04 can't manage desktop CPU clock speeds).
 
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