Quick note - unfortunately there is some pricing confusion with this NAS, the different configurations available and their prices kept changing several times throughout our time making the video... for reference, as of the time of making this video, the base model with 8GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD is available for $299 USD on Amazon with no extra coupons at the moment.
Something to consider with the N100 devices, in the BIOS, enable C-states, which allows the chip to go into a low power state when it is idle. Thank you for the video!
Take a look at the Aoostar R1 N100 PC. They also have an R7 in the same form factor that has an AMD 5700U. The Aoostar WTR pro is a 4-bay version, in a slightly different form factor that the R1.
I have an n5095 motherboard with 12x SATA ports which I installed in a Jonsbo N3 motherboard. 16GB DDR4 RAM and a 500W PSU - it draws average 40 Watts power from the wall with 3x 7300 rpm SATA HDDs in it and under load (transferring files). I still need to look in the BIOS settings to see if I can drop the power consumption safely. It's about the same size and form factor of my HP n36l microservers, but has double the HDD storage bays - and it uses less power, but is a LOT more CPU powerful than the HP's AMD dual core CPU. The intel CPUs can also be used for hardware transcoding (you should enable it and give it a test with the little NAS you reviewed).
I know this isn’t necessarily the video for this question, but is there a way to use a system like this without internet? Would be nice to have the option of either a wireless connection or a hard connection if I ever find myself without internet
good question, cuase most of the time it will be "no" with low end devices, but is this really low end at $400? Definitely should have hot swap at that price point. lolz then again its only two drives, so...
I just bought the 4 bay version of this and am conflicted about the purchase. The build quality seems quite good but the layout leave a lot to be desired. As mentioned in the video, having to remove the glued on rubber strips to remove the screws was a bad design choice. Getting at the ram and M.2 drive is also poorly laid out. Getting the motherboard out to get at those is not good. Basically have to disassemble the whole unit to swap out the ram. The outside design is much better. All the I/O is on the back and it is compact for a 4 bay unit. As others have mentioned, I wiped the factory installed OS as I don't trust it. So far I've installed and tinkered with CasaOS and my own installation of OMV. I'm also going to install a Linux desktop distro and create a raid array in that and maybe use this as a backup desktop PC while it stores my media. I wanted to try Truenas but I was unable to get it to install from the USB drive I created with Rufus. Time will tell if the pros outweigh those odd internal design cons.
Flash your true Nas install onto your USB stick with Balena etcher instead of Rufus , Rufus isn't as great an option for software flashing as it used to be anymore also make sure your bios is boot options are unlocked
@@nickconnor8667 Balana etcher did the trick, thanks for that! Now I've got to deal with the learning curve on Truenas and Next cloud. Office365 isn't looking so bad to me now😬
Quick note - unfortunately there is some pricing confusion with this NAS, the different configurations available and their prices kept changing several times throughout our time making the video... for reference, as of the time of making this video, the base model with 8GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD is available for $299 USD on Amazon with no extra coupons at the moment.
Do you think we'd be better off spending a little extra and going with UGreen if this is at $300?
Something to consider with the N100 devices, in the BIOS, enable C-states, which allows the chip to go into a low power state when it is idle. Thank you for the video!
5:18 - dude, that's a crime.
Take a look at the Aoostar R1 N100 PC. They also have an R7 in the same form factor that has an AMD 5700U. The Aoostar WTR pro is a 4-bay version, in a slightly different form factor that the R1.
I have an n5095 motherboard with 12x SATA ports which I installed in a Jonsbo N3 motherboard. 16GB DDR4 RAM and a 500W PSU - it draws average 40 Watts power from the wall with 3x 7300 rpm SATA HDDs in it and under load (transferring files). I still need to look in the BIOS settings to see if I can drop the power consumption safely. It's about the same size and form factor of my HP n36l microservers, but has double the HDD storage bays - and it uses less power, but is a LOT more CPU powerful than the HP's AMD dual core CPU. The intel CPUs can also be used for hardware transcoding (you should enable it and give it a test with the little NAS you reviewed).
Nice one bro, love your video,,thanks for the tips..
Might use for offsite backup nas.
I know this isn’t necessarily the video for this question, but is there a way to use a system like this without internet? Would be nice to have the option of either a wireless connection or a hard connection if I ever find myself without internet
Does the BIOS support setting up a RAID array or does it have to be done by software?
Howdy from your footage can you tell me what motherboard that is?
TDP 37W (normal) 42W (3000MHz) 🙃. Test Asus N100 + 1x module RAM 16GB SODIMM 1,2V . TDP procesor + board min. 25W max. 35W + HDD consumption 7W.
How much RAM can I install on those PCs? I mean max.
does the uefi allow to activate hotswap for the sata ports?
good question, cuase most of the time it will be "no" with low end devices, but is this really low end at $400? Definitely should have hot swap at that price point. lolz then again its only two drives, so...
good review. Good pricing.
I just bought the 4 bay version of this and am conflicted about the purchase. The build quality seems quite good but the layout leave a lot to be desired.
As mentioned in the video, having to remove the glued on rubber strips to remove the screws was a bad design choice. Getting at the ram and M.2 drive is also poorly laid out. Getting the motherboard out to get at those is not good. Basically have to disassemble the whole unit to swap out the ram.
The outside design is much better. All the I/O is on the back and it is compact for a 4 bay unit. As others have mentioned, I wiped the factory installed OS as I don't trust it. So far I've installed and tinkered with CasaOS and my own installation of OMV. I'm also going to install a Linux desktop distro and create a raid array in that and maybe use this as a backup desktop PC while it stores my media. I wanted to try Truenas but I was unable to get it to install from the USB drive I created with Rufus.
Time will tell if the pros outweigh those odd internal design cons.
Flash your true Nas install onto your USB stick with Balena etcher instead of Rufus , Rufus isn't as great an option for software flashing as it used to be anymore also make sure your bios is boot options are unlocked
@@nickconnor8667 Balana etcher did the trick, thanks for that! Now I've got to deal with the learning curve on Truenas and Next cloud. Office365 isn't looking so bad to me now😬
$300 is expensive for that.
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