Beelink ME Mini NAS Review
This may be one of the best pieces of tech I have seen come down the pike in some time. Having a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device has become fairly standard in a lot of households and is darn near required in the office or business space. Enter the Beelink Me Mini NAS ($259 for the 16GB version) device.
This is a unique device based on the Intel Twin Lake N150 chip. The N150 is a 4 core, 4 thread chip with a max turbo boost speed of 3.6 GHz. It also sips power at about 6 watts.
Storage consists of a 64GB eMMC onboard and 6 NVME M.2 slots for a max capacity of 24 TB. The downside though is that 6 – 4TB NVME drives are EXPENSIVE. Also due to limitations on the PCI Express Lanes (9 total) it is possible that populating all six drive locations MIGHT cause some power or bandwidth issues. If possible, low power NVME drives could be utilized.
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