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01:07 - Storage and Design
01:55 - What is NOT Included?
02:16 - PSU / Power Supplier?
02:59 - How the x86 P5 Manages SATA Storage?
03:40 - Power Consumption
03:56 - How Hot Does It Get?
05:10 - BIOS
05:25 - PCI Lanes
05:44 - Read and Write Benchmarks
06:51 - How the M.2 are Mounted
07:42 - WiFi?
08:01 - Ports and Connections
08:52 - Revirew Conclusion
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@StenIsaksson 29 дней назад

Why does the seagulls fly over the sea? Because if they fly over the bay they would be bagels.

@picasso566 29 дней назад

I'd rather have this bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy

@yensteel 29 дней назад

@nascompares 29 дней назад

I mean, fair play @picasso566, that's solid wordplay. Respect.

@itsnahombereket 29 дней назад

i hate that i love this

@pconnor462 29 дней назад

I could easily see someone designing a 3D printable case for this that puts a couple SATA drives on top of it, and then a 120mm fan along the back that would actively cool all of the components. Would love to see that come to fruition.

@Dreadylock9170 27 дней назад

i started work on one but ran into problems problem 1 the fan headers are 1.25mm pin pitch looking for adapters haven't found any except for in china what they (cwwk) recommend is USB fans so now looking for USB headers (2.0 pin pitch) for USB 2.0 found some on another web site , next comes the propriety SSD/HDD header you could break these no replacements,they don't sell them ( could have use a plug like in a laptop, ask them for a cad model they pointed my to some weird can format .x_t looked at at it using e drawings and realized nothing looks professional so i had to measure each port to get locations and rebuild cad model. so i believe this is a waste of money to even get vs a raspberry 5 with a hat for 4nvme drives yeah sure it has more memory and probably more power.

@krin-san 24 дня назад

Please prepare more videos like this one, about mini pcs turned into a NAS. The options are numerous but they all come with their downsides and finding something good enough ain’t easy.

@franktothemax 29 дней назад

The I hate seagulls bit gets me every time.

@RobertoAnile 29 дней назад

i have the i3-n305 variant with the board and 5 (FIVE) nvme attached and running.. 4 nvme on the expansion board (pcie4x4 downgraded to 3x1 each) and the 5th drive in a custom a+e to m-key adapter i built myself. everything works perfectly fine, running proxmox on the 5th drive and with mdadm raid5 array with lvm on top on the other 4 drives.. lan ports are lacp'd so i get full 2.5gb transfer speed, quite happy and sold my old DS920+.

@cl-be2zs 29 дней назад

Can you make a video/post on how you did this?

@RobertoAnile 28 дней назад

@@cl-be2zs uhm yeah i guess i could post something about, you mean the 5th drive adapter? or the whole setup?

@AdamPrtn 28 дней назад

Great review of a very good device, may look at grabbing one of these for homelab use. Also the Seagulls! God I wish I lived near the seaside!

@nascompares 28 дней назад

I mean..If you saw the work that goes into the audio gating to remove ALL of the seagulls audio in these vids...you would never consider a seaside residency in a million years!!!! I swear, one day I will publish a 20min vid of an empty studio and just the gulls...it's like a David Attenborough blooper real of bird noises....

@HelloHelloXD 29 дней назад

Yes for more tests. Maybe raid z2 on Truenas?

@miriamramstudio3982 16 дней назад

Great video. Thanks

@alfblack2 27 дней назад

very nice board!

@That_Stealth_Guy 29 дней назад

Quite an interesting little board. What has me more interested is the break out board from PCIe 3x4 to four 3x1 slots. Could that be added to a board that is more robust. I have a Asrock Deskmini B760 that has some interesting features. Intel 12-14th Gen 65W processors 1 PCIe 5.0 X4 slot 1 PCie 4.0 X4 slot 2 Sata ports (via similar break out cables) 20 GB/s USB Type C, See where my mind is going with this. It might just be worth the $150ish to get this board and do some tinkering

@Trains-With-Shane 29 дней назад

I ordered the i3-n305 version yesterday. Going to stand up a NAS and run my home network services off of it. I went ahead and spent the extra money for the 32gb/1tb kit as it was only $2 cost difference than ordering the SODIMM and the NVME drive separately, lol. My usage case for this isn't going to require blistering file transfer speeds. Was hoping you'd have some software testing in this video as I plan to run a ZFS pool for the storage and some proxmox/docker stuff.

@ivanmalinovski7807 28 дней назад

Just fyi, I've got the Terra Master F4-424 Pro, which also has N305, and is semi-passively cooled. it has a cooling block, but it only has one fan on the side for the whole system, and if it's not super well ventilated, it'll get pretty warm under pretty light loads, unless I ramp up the fan.

@marconwps 26 дней назад

Mmm terramaster try to install xigmanas ?

@Trains-With-Shane 25 дней назад

@@ivanmalinovski7807 I think i'll be ok given the fan that comes with it, the open form factor and the fact that there is ambient air movement where this thing is going to live. Hopefully i'll have it in a few days and can tell for sure. The usage case was to find something that pumped out less heat than my 14c/28t xeon with 6x 3.5" drives.

@Trains-With-Shane 21 день назад

@@ivanmalinovski7807 I've got it up and running. the little included fan seems to work pretty well. Now I just need to find some screws to actually attach it. The system came pre-assembled but lacks hardware to attach the fan, grill, and filter. I'll come up with something. Also in my testing just using four 256gb NVME drives in a RAIDZ it's able to sustain writes when copying to the device at 1gbt. I haven't tested 2.5 yet since I don't have that part of my infrastructure upgraded yet. It's in the works, though and I have most of the stuff I need. Also forgot to mention that i'm just running Proxmox with Cockpit in an LXC container as the NAS. And just finished standing up an Ubuntu server 22.04 VM and everything is working out just fine. Proxmox is installed on a 2.5" SSD using one of the included adapters so I could utilize all four NVME slots for the storage pool. It'll later be upgraded to either 2tb of 4tb drives. Just picked up the 256gb ones as a cheap proof of concept test set.

@Trains-With-Shane 18 дней назад

So it looks like this thing is going to be plenty powerful for what i'm going to use it for. Should make for an excellent low power and/or travel server. Just need to come up with some kind of enclosure for it. Or some feet to stand it on, etc.

@paulwoodward8265 29 дней назад

please do more, can it do raid5, or is that daughterboard not up to it?

@Spreadie 29 дней назад

I already have the exact same mini PC without the NVME adapter and 4 way daughterboard. I wonder if you can buy them separately...

@Airbag888 29 дней назад

Maybe get 20 will have 10gb NIC and proper lanes to saturate the link in read and writes :) I'm guessing the SATA connectors are for 2.5" drives and don't provide 12V to 3.5" drives?

@PubgPeaks 27 дней назад

You can remove the seagull sound using spectral editing. Not as simple but can be done or just improve sound isolation in your studio. Btw nice video

@nascompares 27 дней назад

At this point, as annoying as it is, if I removed the sound of gulls, a small % of subscribers would lynch me.... It's catch 22... So.. I'll settle for leaving them in, but also getting increasingly annoyed by them...that's healthy, right?

@THEG12EG 3 дня назад

Your best putting a OS disk in the WiFi slot imo

@tommybronze3451 29 дней назад

Hi, actually I’ve got an idea for testing system like this one: populate it with nvme drives and boot from ubuntu usb or something similar. Make a zfs array (raid5) and copy some large video file to it. Then just copy from one folder to another within that zfs array! That should tell people how goot the cpu is in terms of calculating checksums and parity data. You could setup a ram disk and copy data from the array to ram disk and the from ram disk back total the array - that way we would know the read and write performance for at least sequential data.

@QuincyNtuli 29 дней назад

Very fair review

@Andy-fd5fg 28 дней назад

I'm confused.... intel says the n100 and n305 only support gen 3 pcie. The products own specification sheet says the onboard M.2 slot is only gen 3 x2..... where did you get gen4 x4 from? Is that a PCIe switch chip on that daughtercard? If so, all of this would explain the poor performance when writing the the storage.

@roblatour3511 29 дней назад

Thanks for the review. Been looking for a solution to more simply support two 3.5" external hard drives; I assume this will do the trick - is that right? Also, of note, at 8:11 you mentioned it has 2 x 10 G ethernet ports but the link to the device on AliExpress says 2 x 2.5 G.

@roblatour3511 28 дней назад

@@ymeshulin your right - he said two USB 10 Gig ports - don't know how I missed that - I was assuming he was talking about the ethernet ports

@theroboticscodedepot7736 29 дней назад

How much memory did you have in it when you did your tests?

@AndrewFrink 29 дней назад

Hmm, dual nvme for l2arc, dual sata ssd for os, and one of those asm1166 sata m.2 cards for 6 hdds for bulk storage. Can i get this a itx form factor with a atx psu input. No jmb55 sata because they don't support aspm.

@scottbrooke4896 29 дней назад

I'm running this system with Proxmox without the 4xNVME. E-Key 64gb boot drive at 3x1 speeds and a 2TB regular NVME at 3x4 speed for CEPH only. Putting the fan on the heat sink was required. 32gb RAM works perfectly fine. It's ok as a Proxmox node as long as you don't expect too much out of it. The 4 E-Cores are obvious at times, but normal operation is great. 3 node Proxmox cluster running CEPH for the only storage and about 3-4 VMs on this node at any time.

@THEG12EG 27 дней назад

What's a e-key?

@scottbrooke4896 27 дней назад

@@THEG12EG m.2 slots are keyed for different functions. The “WiFi slot” is an E-Key slot. The cool thing about it is it usually has a x1 pcie lane and regular storage will work. Slowly. Regular storage m.2 slots are M-Key.

@THEG12EG 27 дней назад

@@scottbrooke4896 oh I've always wondered what that slot was called 😂

@poucha6542 26 дней назад

Hi. This might be a stupid question but, does anyone know if the 2 sata ports inside the board are able to power 3.5 hdd, or only 2.5 ones? Thanks.

@SambitBiswas 29 дней назад

What’s the closest thing to DSM that we can install on this one?

@frankwong9486 29 дней назад

I have purchased one also but it looks slightly different The nvme carrier board has an extra brown soft cable And the header on the main PCB is slightly changed on placement The model I ordered is a n305

@klyxk 21 день назад

I think that brown cable it possibly a power cable - on the v3 in the video you can see a red/black cable going to the daughterboard instead of the wide brown cable that comes with the earlier models

@bankruptsee 29 дней назад

A HUNDRED AND FIFTY WHAT?!

@gbjbaanb 29 дней назад

TBH I'm not convinced the big heatsink is the bottom. That thing looks like it should be mounted on its side. Then you'd get a bit more heat dissipation from both cpu and nvme.

@lifefromscratch2818 29 дней назад

I'm glad to hear the seagulls are still healthy!

@Aloha_XERO 27 дней назад

I’d like to see something like that asus nas concept but when i saw the thumbnail I was like thats ive been looking for but a controller that slots into a motherboard like a usb external to a evo 850 sata ssd to raid-0 to the mb direct slotusing 1 lane

@KS-wr8ub 29 дней назад

Been eying that board nog for a coupe of weeks. Would be potential candidate to become a NAS in my RV. But is it a 12 V or 19 V PSU?

@dktol56 27 дней назад

12V, 3A. He briefly displays the power brick at 2:25.

@darthkielbasa 28 дней назад

4:17 - heat was my immediate concern. Perhaps the standoffs can be added to the nvme side so that the device can be flipped and maintain silent operation. As you said, for $150 knicker and TWO 2.5 gbe, this is a fantastic deal.

@JamesTenniswood 29 дней назад

I was tempted but that m.2 adaptor is so crippled, I think an older optiplex sff would be a better bet

@cl-be2zs 29 дней назад

Would you buy this over the Asustor Flashtor 6 - I know the Asustor is more than double the price?

@stanislavtrifan96 20 дней назад

This is only board with cpu(you need package and other stuff), asustor is full package

@felentus 29 дней назад

ok, so the thing about ECC. It is literally a firmware feature, it costs them nothing to enable it. That series of CPUs support in band ecc, that is uses normal dram moduls. You just lose some capacity and bandwidth.

@denvera1g1 28 дней назад

I'd love to see someone make a compulab airtop 3 style heatsink grid chimney cooler for this for both the CPU and the SSDs. I'd throw an actual i3 under a small version of that airtop3 cooler, or 2 or 3 of those atom N300s pretending to be an i3.

@denvera1g1 28 дней назад

On the subject of ECC...... wasnt ECC supposed to be standard for DDR5? Wasnt that the big selling point during the run up to release? Been quite upset with ECC uDIMM support in so many DDR5 platforms. Did anyone catch that it took Epyc coming to AM5 for most motherboards to put any work into enabling ECC? AM4 has had far better ECC support than AM5 up until now.

@hspank 26 дней назад

put this prompt in your favorite GEN_AI (such as perplexity pro): please describe a concrete setup including alternatives with maximum price performance for a DIY NAS setup based on the following settings: The best bang for the buck setup right now is to get a used mini PC (SFF) with enough PCI adapters and USB 3.2, plenty of RAM, and carefully tweak it for a cold/hot storage setup (& cloud backup), Add an usb-C-5Gbe for the sweet spot of NAS performance, then configure the storage pool tiers to your liking with truenas, unraid, openmv, primocache. 64GB RAM - 4 x 1GB NVME SSD - 4 x 18TB (8 x 8TB with refurbished Exos 2x18) 1 x NVME x 4 adapter 1 x SAS adapter 3GB/sec constant bitrate - generous caching wherever possible, assuming home use with few concurrent users, lots of large files, low db activity and random access.

@werecow68 25 дней назад

@nascompares Embrace the seagulls. They are voicing their approval of your videos.

@axescar 29 дней назад

Interesting, but I decide to go another way. Ryzen 7600 with 4xnvme with x16 bifurcation and +2nvme on board. Will try to minimize power consumption. As a bonus - I can upgrade to ECC memory with this build

@nascompares 29 дней назад

Sounds great...but it might melt though the desk!

@axescar 29 дней назад

@@nascompares hope not, will see. Will start with regular PSU 500w platinum, but its overkill - thinking of picopsu. Will measure power consumption from the wall and then decide. Main idea is RaidZ1 array of 5 nvme, 1 bootable nvme for proxmox and one CMR 5400 HDD for backups. Hope to fit in 30w idle and 50w load with CPU limitations in BIOS.

@wojtek-33 29 дней назад

ECC isn't guaranteed to work just because it's am5 and says it in the specs.

@axescar 29 дней назад

@@wojtek-33 there is nice video from level1tech about it. So I did some research :)

@stephens3153 15 дней назад

On Ali Express it is available with 32GB of RAM, this really bothers me that vendors will do this. The N100 will only support one channel with up to 16GB per memory module. Yes, the bios may recognize larger memory modules but the CPU will not address it, the memory registries have to be designed to address the memory, it will simply ignore anything larger than what it was designed for. If anyone has one of these with more than 16GB of Ram. please find a python script that will test memory by grading a defined amount at a time and see where it tops out at.

@denvera1g1 28 дней назад

I dont think those are ZIF(dont look like it but could be) i like this style of connector more than ZIF as i tend to damage ZIF.

@CrazyDriverSwed 19 дней назад

If you can afford 4 NVMe SSDs I think you can afford a better NAS solution than this. With an inexpensive PCIe card you can fit all the SSDs into you main computer skip the NAS.

@BoraHorzaGobuchul 29 дней назад

A couple hundred more iterations, and they'll get it right. Otoh, even Synology might also get it right by that time...

@GriffonWalker 27 дней назад

Maybe as a pf box, but come on that drive performance is terrible. I bet Ethernet are limited too. Doesn’t matter how cheap something is if it can’t meet minimum io standards for nas performance then it shouldn’t be one.

@Gonzie6 29 дней назад

until you mentioned it I thought the seagulls were around me. yes I also hate the evil things

@marconwps 26 дней назад

Ugreen psu easy to buy but Nas in my Town it's a mission impossibile 😢

@tommybronze3451 29 дней назад

I see ceph node :) Edit: can the wifi m.2 be used for boot ?

@scottbrooke4896 29 дней назад

Yes, that's how I'm using it. E-key to M-key adapters work fine, but are too tall if you use an NVME in the M-Key slot. There's one place, Cervos, that makes an E-Key NVME stick.

@tommybronze3451 28 дней назад

@@scottbrooke4896 thanks for the into mate. Yes I'm aware of those exotic A&E key nvme, but those are too exotic for my liking and when things go wrong - it's harder to find a replacement ... and are also expensive and have low write performance.

@tommybronze3451 27 дней назад

@@scottbrooke4896 BTW, I forgot to let you know, if some thread I've seen guy dishing out a link to an amazon item which was A&E to M-key with a ribbon cable allowing to place M-key socket with mounting PCB relatively easy anywhere in the unit !

@scottbrooke4896 27 дней назад

Yep, I looked at that. You’d have to rig up something to support the adapter though.

@tommybronze3451 27 дней назад

@@scottbrooke4896 gaffer tape 😜 you know every bodge that works is permanent 🤣

@boedilllard5952 28 дней назад

I am pretty sure I'll be dead before we see a graphite battery or an affordable 16tb SSD even though they've been talking about graphite/cabon nanotube batteries for 30 years now (with a new breakthrough every 6 months) or an affordable 16tb SSD - promised about a decade ago. And to be clear while there are 16TB SSDs they are 10 plus times the price per TB than a spindle drive. Waiting for someone to say the average user doesn't need it so it is a niche market. The average person doesn't need at 75" TV, the average person doesn't need a Lexus or Mercedes or BMW, the average person doesn't need a house, the average person doesn't need a park, the average person doesn't need liquor store - doesn't mean there isn't a market for them. OH but they are too expensive - yes - that is the point. Plasma TVs were $18,000 for a 40" 720i TV when they came out - somehow they managed to figure out despite people saying there was no demand that they could sell tons of them when they got the price down.

@THEG12EG 27 дней назад

Do ypu tbink ypu could run truenas off usb drive??

@BoraHorzaGobuchul 4 дня назад

It's not unRAID so the drive is liable to die fast

@THEG12EG 4 дня назад

@@BoraHorzaGobuchul maybe a solid state usb. Thing is you need a drive for os!!

@BoraHorzaGobuchul 4 дня назад

@@THEG12EG you do, of course. Since truenas, unlike unRAID, writes a lot to it's drive, a flash drive is very undesirable. A usb-ssd will most likely work, but again, depends on the quality of the SSD - usb-ssds are often low-quality stuff.

@MrtrenchTrucker 25 дней назад

WTF is a quid in freedom money? 💵🇺🇲 also, what's a "Knicker"???

@JamesTenniswood 29 дней назад

Odds are those m.2 ssd's would be faster sitting in sata adaptors 😂

@jblack3761 29 дней назад

At pcie 3.0x1 they should be about twice the speed of sata, not blazing fast, but plenty for the 2x2.5gb nics

@zzaretube 29 дней назад

I like the pink wrist watch much more.

@nascompares 29 дней назад

Funny thing is, it's easier to buy the bloody NAS! Look for the pink Casio with pink facia

@0xKruzr 29 дней назад

whyyyyy do these manufacturers have an allergy to 10G networking

@TimHunold 29 дней назад

Can I grill fish on that toasty beast?

@nascompares 29 дней назад

Eventually....probably *sets AJA to do an infinity test of a 16GB 5K file, and prepares the salmon*

@ItsNITREX 29 дней назад

I built Raspberry Pi NAS with a mix of SATA SSD’s and 2.5 in HDD’s while I wait on more SSD deals. So far so good, you can get 1Gbps stock speeds and 2.5Gbps with a USB C dongle, if your network allows it. Jeff Geerling had a video recently about it. As for the price it’s within $150-$200 for the system.

@ItsNITREX 29 дней назад

Oh and also installed an e-Ink display with system stats like DateTime, IP address, CPU % and temp, Mem & Disk %

@fcasinhas 29 дней назад

Please can someone explain me the "I hate seagulls" 😅

@nascompares 29 дней назад

No...and you can't make me

@DanielBethke 29 дней назад

Reminds me of "Seagulls! (Stop it now)" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-U9t-slLl30E.html

@GroundDwellerStudioS 29 дней назад

If you listen carefully, and somerimes not so carefully, you can hear seagulls outside the studio interrupting his videos one or more times in many videos.

@Arachnoid_of_the_underverse 29 дней назад

They keep stealing the chips

@john_in_phoenix 29 дней назад

He has a seagull fetish! 😅 Seriously, they are quite loud and frequently interrupt his videos, thus the animosity.

@joaomiguelxs 29 дней назад

its a NANO NAS, of course it is.

@darthkielbasa 28 дней назад

We should normalize “knicker” in place of “bucks” or “shekels” in the USA.

@nascompares 28 дней назад

I mean, fair play, 'shekels' is EXCELLENT. Haven't heard that in YEARS...might add this and 'bob' into future videos...I'm positive I won't immediately get flamed for that....

@life-on-earth 29 дней назад

Ooo first view lol

@gmsipe 29 дней назад

The whole point of NAS is to protect data from a drive failure - which is critical, of course - and data availability. However what happens when this device fails in a couple of years? The company will probably be gone or this hardware no longer offered. Something else *may* work, but may need significant time and effort to recover. This is a big issue when choosing a NAS. FWIW, I use Synology for a variety of reasons, including my belief that they will be around down the road and that I can move my drives to newer (or even used) Synology hardware quickly. This serious issue never seems to be addressed. It also applies to all new entrants into the NAS space and established companies without significant market share.

@GOVAUS1 29 дней назад

No. This is about uptime, not protection. A proper backup strategy is needed to offer protection. RAID(s) have never been.

@john_in_phoenix 29 дней назад

For $150, I would order a spare. Admittedly this comes with no memory or storage, but it is in the same ballpark as a current Raspberry Pi. The I/O capabilities are light years ahead of a Pi. Use heatsinks for the m.2 drives and stick a Noctua 80mm or 120mm to blow across it, and you have a very capable device. Splitting the 4 lanes across 4 drives means that the drives will just max out the (admittedly slow) interface with little to no throttling. Just as an FYI, I also own 3 Synology NAS, and I am going to set up a 6 bay UGreen as soon as I spot a good deal on drives.

@marcogenovesi8570 29 дней назад

it's a mini PC so you can just get any other (mini) PC, install the same TrueNAS or unRAID or whatever NAS OS you were using (he was using UnRAID), and import the array. The issue you raise is relevant only for NAS appliances, that come with their own OS/firmware and interface, which are often proprietary and limit array compatibility.

@nicklozon 29 дней назад

NAS stands for "network attached storage", nothing to do with high availability. You can have a NAS without any redundancy if you wish, it's still a NAS. This is a compact mini-PC with a custom nvm-e expansion card, it's niche but it has plenty of use cases and is extremely affordable, even if it only lasted a couple years. Your narrow vision of what a NAS can be used for is pretty naive.

@frankwong9486 29 дней назад

Nas is not to protect data from a drive failure , it is to provide storage which is attached to network 😂 If this device failed what happen to the drive and data ? Well that depends on what you are running, something like truenas / unraid / windows you can move the array disk and import them