You have to ask yourself what exactly you are trying to accomplish. For example, if you need more than 32GB RAM, then you can eliminate NUC and the majority of laptops as an option or even the smaller Xeon D systems like the e200/e300 if bulk storage is a requirement. The answer to this question may assist in eliminating the form factors that may not fit. There are so many types of "Servers" you can choose today, but like anything, you need to figure out your requirements, ie # of VMs which will lead to how much CPU/RAM/Storage you need or want to grow into. Now if there was a sturdy workstation-replacement/gaming laptop sized box with a Ryzen or Xeon-D in it, with 10G network, room for multiple NVMe and/or SSD then we would be talking! Could stick it in a big laptop bag and take that on the road along with a skinny laptop for interacting with it. Much more comfortable to sit in my car seats and listen to decent audio than stand in a colo and go deaf with server whine while all the moisture is sucked out of your body from the hot air moving around
I have run the whole setup on a bog standard 12V->120V power inverter along with wifi and switches in the past for testing out sites. I wouldn't recommend actually using the 10TB or any spinning drives while driving around in a car, but SSDs would be fine. I would rather pay for a decent compute power and SSDs vs putting that $ into extra laptop parts that are not needed.
If I just needed CPU/Network and not disk I would go with the smaller E200 / E300 style boxes ( Supermicro | Products | SuperServers | Mini 1U | SYS-E200-8D and SCE300 | 1U | Chassis | Products | Super Micro Computer, Inc. If you are going to do a NAS anyway, just make that NAS beefy enough for VMs and then use whatever laptop you want to access it.įor work stuff I have a supermicro "cube" ( SC721TQ-250B | Mini-tower | Chassis | Products | Super Micro Computer, Inc.) with xeon-d and 4x 10T drives in it so I can sneakernet 20-30T of data in a trip. have it "run while on the road" I would go with a small mini-itx board in a compact case + a laptop for your interaction with it vs multiple beefy laptops.
If you are going for more "ease of picking it up and bringing it elsewhere" vs.
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