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The MS-02 Ultra is a mini workstation built around Intel Core Ultra HX-series processors, up to the 24-core Core Ultra 9 285HX. Its edge over most mini PCs is expansion: four DDR5 SO-DIMM slots up to 256GB with ECC on the 285HX, three PCIe slots including a PCIe 5.0 x16 that takes a dual-slot graphics card, and two 25 Gigabit SFP+ ports on the 285HX. All of it sits in a 4.8-litre aluminium chassis with a slide-out design and an integrated 350W supply. It suits people who want near-server capability in a small box rather than a tower or rack unit.
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Owners rate it highly, with 25 ratings averaging 5 out of 5. Praise centers on the expansion for its size and on running virtualization and storage workloads quietly.
The MINISFORUM MS-02 Ultra is a mini workstation built around an Intel Core Ultra HX processor. It comes in a 4.8-litre aluminium chassis with a slide-out design and an integrated 350W power supply, and ships with Windows 11 Pro. Its focus is expansion: four DDR5 SO-DIMM slots, three PCIe slots and multiple high-speed network ports.
Memory supports up to 256GB, with ECC on the Core Ultra 9 285HX configuration. The PCIe 5.0 x16 slot accepts a dual-slot graphics card with bifurcation. A PCIe 4.0 x16 slot can be configured as x4 plus x4 plus x4, and a third PCIe 4.0 x4 slot is also available. This lets a discrete GPU, a storage controller and an additional network card fit in one chassis.
Storage slots differ by processor option. The 285HX configuration has four M.2 2280 slots at PCIe 4.0 x4, each supporting up to 8TB, for 32TB in total. The 275HX, 235HX and 285HX-NS configurations have two such slots for 16TB. Graphics are integrated Intel Graphics. The NPU is rated at up to 13 TOPS, below the 40 TOPS Copilot+ threshold, so the system is built around CPU, memory and expansion rather than on-device AI inference.
