I'm going in, guys. Wish me luck.

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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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'll report back when I've run it for a while.
  
  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?
  
  Didn’t you read? It’s a workhorse. It pulls wagons
  
  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.
  
  So this is like, for running your own little private Netflix?
  
  Yes, I'll put Jellyfin on it.
- It feeds her her HRT

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