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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I wish you luck with your new Bluetooth speaker.
TBH, the sound quality isn’t that great.
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.
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.
With two Ironwolf drives, it’s more like “Awoostar”!
… I’ll see myself out.
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
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.
I’m guessing your comment is based on using an OS already installed on it? Doubtful a self hosted user would ever do that.
Certainly not me. The point of buying something like this is that you get to set it up yourself.
Yep, that was my point directed @catloaf@lemm.ee .
Why not? The data is on the drives, not on the PC.
Yeah it’s not really so much about data loss as it is about it randomly dying one day. Or worse, slowly dying and being annoyingly inconsistent about operating properly. These devices have very low QC standards.
I don’t think it’ll actually cause data loss (although that’s a possibility if there’s any corruption introduced through invisible failures), but I usually find these devices present headaches that outweigh their low price.
I think their concern is not data retention, but data collection/exfiltration.
How’s that going to work?
assuming you install your own operating system it wouldn’t. I guess gigabyte did that thing where it would install their software with no user input but that was windows only and a disable-able bios option. I think the world also forgot about intel me but while I stub that out in any computer that I can, I don’t think that is a potential vector for this either.
I want to put openmediavault on it. No Windows in this house. Actually, I live in a house with windows, though.
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?
I was looking at this the other day on a slick deals post. Let us know how it is!
Good luck!
Nice are you gonna go with a Raid 1 setup?
Yes.
Neat.
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.
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).
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
I’ll report back when I’ve run it for a while.
It feeds her her HRT
Godspeed
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 :-)
That model seems to be around $250-$300
Edit, it is $200
€ 200 for the barebones version. Plus about 80 for the RAM and SSD.
Good luck!!
