It’s an Aoostar R1. A mini PC with an Intel N100 and two HDD drive bays. It’s going to be my new NAS.
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With two Ironwolf drives, it’s more like “Awoostar”!
… I’ll see myself out.
Godspeed
Good luck!
Good luck!!
Just remember that “Linux is not Windows” and to “go in” like It’s your very first time using a PC and you’ll be fine.
What’s a Windows?
What kind of goofy lil doodad is that?
It’s a mini PC when HDD drive bays. I bought the bare bones version and fitted the RAM and drives. I’ll install openmediavault on it but I probably won’t get around to it today.
I’m interested to hear what you think of the n100.
I’ll report back when I’ve run it for a while.
I’ve been running my home server on an N100 for like 10 months or so.
I love it. It’s a little workhorse that just sips power.
What kind of workload?
Home Assistant, Zigbee2Mqtt, MQTT, AdGuard, Synching, Caddy, WireGuard, and maybe a few other lightweight containers.
The biggest load I run on it is Frigate NVR. With all of that, it stays around 25% CPU usage.
Didn’t you read? It’s a workhorse. It pulls wagons
Same here.
Set up a mini PC with one some months ago as a home media box (with Kodi on Lubuntu) in my living room, which also works as a NAS and Torrent client over always on VPN.
CPU usage tends to be below 10% and you almost never hear the fan on the box turn on.
All this on a machine with a TDP of 15W.
I’d say the N100 is massivelly overpowered to be used just as a NAS.
I’ll run some other stuff on it too, like Jellyfin.
Well, you definitelly have “room for growth” with it, especially if you don’t care about the fan running (i.e. sustained loads above 20% or so) which in my case and since the thing is in my living room I would rather not have (especially since Mini-Pcs tend to have smaller fans which have to rotate faster hence are more noisy).
So this is like, for running your own little private Netflix?
Yes, I’ll put Jellyfin on it.
It feeds her her HRT
This is the kind of product I want to see. Inexpensive NAS hardware and chassis which lets the user install their own OS. I wouldn’t be complaining this much if we could do that with Synology’s entry-level DS line but we can’t and it’s annoying because they and QNAP are some of the few who price the entry-level well (in my opinion, that is). It’s really hard to build an entry-level NAS under $200 unless you’re going used and have a chassis handy.
Good luck and let us know how it goes. I should bookmark these guys
I’ve been thinking of replacing my Synology with one of these!
Neat.
i thought this was a tonibox from wish.
Why do you want to put harddisks into an air purifyier?
I like the smell.
fair.
Best of luck with your new air freshener
Nice are you gonna go with a Raid 1 setup?
Yes.
Nice, what’s the price for the PC?
I’m looking for an enclosure or something to chuck my old hard drives into but either they cost super lots for say 4 drives, or you buy a 40€ junk PC and pile up the drives in the case I feel. No middle ground at all, even old used 2014 NAS for 1 or 2 drives are overpriced IMO where I live.
fractal node 804 fit my bill. I only have 4 3.5" drives plus 2 nvme, but can squeeze 4 more 3.5" drives if needed.
That is some dope stuff!
I remember another fractal box, small but with lots of hard drive space (4?) it was a bit smaller than yours but hey, can’t have too many drives :-)
€ 200 for the barebones version. Plus about 80 for the RAM and SSD.
That model seems to be around $250-$300
Edit, it is $200
I wish you luck with your new Bluetooth speaker.
TBH, the sound quality isn’t that great.
