About & methodology

TinyLab Finder exists because the same questions come up every day in home-server communities: which used office mini PC has two NVMe slots, which one takes a PCIe card, which generation transcodes 4K, and whether a listing is a fair price. The answers are scattered across manuals, reviews and forum threads, and listing titles are often wrong.

Where the data comes from

• Chassis specifications (slots, bays, RAM limits, chipset, NIC) follow the manufacturer's published specifications and hardware maintenance manuals.
• Video-engine capabilities are stored once per CPU generation and applied to every model that uses it, so they stay consistent.
• Unofficial-but-common facts (such as 64 GB working where 32 GB is the official limit) are written as owner notes and never mixed into the official figures.
• Measured values such as idle power are shown only when actually measured. Until then the page says "not measured yet". We do not estimate them.

Confidence labels

Specs widely confirmed means the key figures (RAM limit, drive slots, PCIe, network chip) were checked against the manufacturer's spec sheet or service manual, linked on each model page. Verify specs means at least one key figure could not be confirmed from an official document we could access. 16 of 23 models are currently in the first group. Found an error? Tell us; corrections are the fastest way this site improves.

How the site is funded

Through display advertising and, where enabled, marketplace affiliate links. Neither changes which models are listed, how they are described, or their order. Ads are always labelled "Advertisement" and kept apart from the content.