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.

  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.worldOP
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    21 days ago

    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.

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        21 days ago

        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.

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          20 days ago

          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.

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              20 days ago

              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).

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            20 days ago

            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.