Just in case the only thing you’re looking for is the price, I’ll save you a click.
Beelink hasn’t announced how much the ME mini will cost or when it will be available for purcahse yet.
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No prob. My comment was from two week ago.
There is an update on the site:
Update: The Beelink ME mini is priced at 1295 CNY in China, which is about $177 at the current exchange rate. It’s likely to cost a bit more outside of China. A number of performance testing, unboxing & teardown, and other articles are also available at Chinese shopping & product recommendation site smzdm.
But Beelink released the product with the same specs except this one has a N150 instead of a N200.
Beelink ME mini 6-Slot Home Storage NAS Mini PC Intel® Twin Lake N150
Price Currently:
12GB LPDDR5+64EMMC+2TB Crucial SSD - $329
$40012GB LPDDR5+64EMMC+4TB (2TB*2) Crucial SSD - $429
$529Currently not available.I don’t think this is a new productvso maybe they are just getting rid of their N150 stock. The one in China has an N200.
Are people really doing NAS with SSD? Not just for cache?
Yes, for purposes of noise, size, speed and power efficiency
If you live in a small place and dont have massive storage needs, it can make sense for the sake of the quietness.
More reliable, less power draw than HDDs, faster and far more space efficient.
Unless you are data hoarding random torrents, 6 to 12 TB is plenty.
More reliable
Heavily depends. If you want to use it as long-term cold storage you absolutely should not use SSDs, they’re losing data when left unpowered for too long. While HDDs are also not perfect in retaining data forever, they won’t fail as quickly when left on a shelf.
The ME mini features 12GB of LPDDR5-4800 memory, which means the RAM will be soldered to the mainboard and not user upgradeable.
Aaaaand I’m out.
Edit: Hijacking my own comment to update the update
Update: The Beelink ME mini is priced at 1295 CNY in China, which is about $177 at the current exchange rate. It’s likely to cost a bit more outside of China.
I was just thinking “bah ssd, that’ll be expensive” but a quick search on Amazon suggests prices have dropped quite a bit.
12Gb soldered on memory though. That’s a shame.
That’s quite the RAM for a NAS, no? I think mine has 512MB.
With a SOC like that, that no way will only serve as a NAS, i can see my self easily hosting a dozen container on it and a couple VMs. That said, 12Gb is quite sufficient for my need.
Sure, but then you’re looking not for a NAS but more for a minilab right? Personally I just split it in 2, one ol’ trustworthy NAS and then some thinkcentre tiny to mess with.
Hmm. Let’s say I add 6 SSDs, 2TB each, for a total of 600€. In a RAID6 configuration, that gives me 8TB of storage. Compare that to a classical NAS with 2×8 TB HDDs for a total of 350€.
The HDDs will draw around 4W idle each, 8W in total. Assuming 0.3€/kWh, over a span of 5 years, that is approximately 100€. The power consumption of the SSDs will be negligible.
So, just in terms of storage, the SSD solution is around 33% more expensive over 5 years. If you include the cost of the NAS itself, the price increment is even less noticeable.
You didn’t count the cost of size and environmental damage.
But that is neglecting the performance aspect.
Something like this can be very good for offloading large amounts of data onto a parity backed array either to be moved to a proper long term storage solution later or to be actively worked.
High resolution / bitrate footage comes to mind, where you may be offloading multiple cameras at once and need high write performance.
It’s pretty unlikely that SSDs will have price parity with spinning rust anytime soon, but the value in them has always been performance.
This would be perfect if I could fit 24th NVMe devices in this, but not looking to pay more then ~300-350 CAD in a device with no hdd/ssd
How much do you expect to pay for the 24 NVMe disks?
I wish I could find something like this (low power kinda thing) that could take like 40 sata ssds.
I have a whole stack of 500 GB ssds from a datacenter decommission that I’ve been sitting on.
The 2TB units found their way into my ceph cluster… but those machines are live vms… A smaller little guy that can stack all these 500 gb would be nice to give to my cousin or something and use as offsite backup.
There are adapters to bring then back to regular SATA connectors. Then you could throw HBAs at them. You’re going to have a hell of a time managing the heat though. They’re lower power, but they’re not exactly cool running.
