Very cool!
People on this forum may be tired of me trotting out the same old thing, but these parts are interesting:
The M.2 2230 to gigabit and 2.5 GbE Ethernet cards look really intriguing and would be essential for a server, a great way to use the high-capacity M.2 2230 communication slot with a tiny card and save USB capacity. The M.2 2280 to 5 SATA port card seemed interesting at first, but users report the PCB is very flimsy.
My TrueNAS is on aging hardware, it would be great to migrate it to much newer hardware and the Framework mainboard would not only be faster, it would consume less power. That’s the interesting part about using these laptop CPUs in a server - good performance but power savings too. It would be much more powerful than my 4th generation Xeon yet consume far less power at idle or even at peak turbo. If only you could use ECC RAM!
I’ve positioned my server in a place where I could easily use rackmount equipment with no concern about fan noise or appearance. I might be tempted to switch to rackmount…that would be cool to explore.