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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Why do you want to put harddisks into an air purifyier?
I like the smell.
fair.
Best of luck with your new air freshener
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 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.
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.
With two Ironwolf drives, it’s more like “Awoostar”!
… I’ll see myself out.
I wish you luck with your new Bluetooth speaker.
TBH, the sound quality isn’t that great.
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.
Well, I have this now. If it works out OK, I won’t need anything else for a while.
What is that white enclosure with the vent on top?
Air purifier
Obviously. Every air purifier should have at least 16 GB RAM.
I’m guessing some sort of NAS but I’m eager to know the truth
Reverse image search says it’s an AOOSTAR mini PC. Not sure how much I’d trust something like that with my data.
Why not? The data is on the drives, not on the PC.
I think their concern is not data retention, but data collection/exfiltration.
How’s that going to work?
Nice are you gonna go with a Raid 1 setup?
Yes.
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’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.
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.
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.
€ 200 for the barebones version. Plus about 80 for the RAM and SSD.
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?
