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.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    9·
    4 hours ago

    I just wish some of those things had a reputable name, rather than another “seizure at the keyboard” Amazon brand.

    I was thinking of getting one to use as a Jellyfin server.

    • Diplomjodler@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      True. But I’ve watched a couple of reviews about this particular model and it seems to be quite solid. Putting it together was pretty easy. While this is certainly not a piece of hardware you want to move around a lot, I’m sure it’ll be fine just sitting in its little closet, chugging away.

  • elucubra@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    2·
    3 hours ago

    I have a Gen 8 HP microserver. Works great. Mine has a Celeron with 4Gb, running Xpenology, but you can plop in a Xeon and 16Gb, for containers and stuff if you want. Runs great, 4 Proliant caddies, cold plug, an extra SATA connector for a CD that can be repurposed for an SSD, a power draw of 25-45w. Very small form factor, Proliant quality and build. Fairly silent, and very small.

    Super happy with it, and it can probaly be found on ebay cheap.

  • Dust0741@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    10 hours ago

    awesome! i got the same one. still waiting to buy drives, as 2x 16tb drives is a tad expensive. soon ill swap my old $40 to my fancy new one. im using plain ol debian with docker. barebones but simple and secure. youll have to update us on using OMV

  • GustavoM@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    17 hours ago

    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.

    • Diplomjodler@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      6·
      17 hours 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.

      • bloodfartEnglish
        2·
        17 hours ago

        I’m interested to hear what you think of the n100.

        • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          9 hours 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.

          • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            5 hours 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.

              • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                3 hours 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).

            • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              1·
              54 minutes 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.

  • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    15 hours ago

    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.