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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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[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'll run some other stuff on it too, like Jellyfin.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month 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).

[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What kind of workload?

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Didn’t you read? It’s a workhorse. It pulls wagons

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month 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.