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[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] mhz@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

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 ~~$400~~

12GB LPDDR5+64EMMC+4TB (2TB*2) Crucial SSD - $429 ~~$529~~ Currently 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.

[–] gardner@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Linus Tech Tips did a video on the FriendlyELEC NAS board. It's $210 for the 32GB RAM version with no SSDs.

It's an ARM processor so great on power efficiency.

[–] adoxographer@feddit.dk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are people really doing NAS with SSD? Not just for cache?

[–] alehel@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

If you live in a small place and dont have massive storage needs, it can make sense for the sake of the quietness.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 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.

[–] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's quite the RAM for a NAS, no? I think mine has 512MB.

[–] mhz@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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.