This mini ITX board combines Alder Lake-N processor with 10 Gb and 2.5 GbE networking and up to 8 storage devices (2 x NVMe + 6 x SATA) - Liliputing

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• aseriesoftubes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pretty killer specs on paper. In my experience, these AliExpress boards have a bunch of minor annoyances that add up. Examples of those annoyances from my experience include:

  • a complete lack of support after the sale (you’ll never get a BIOS update, or if you do, you have to get it from some dodgy Chinese Dropbox-equivalent),
  • a lack of 4-pin chassis fan headers,
  • outdated SATA controllers that don’t let your computer reach higher C-states, and
  • non-standard CPU coolers that you’ll never be able to replace if they fail.

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  • nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So true. I’d complement the first point to include a general lack of documentation. Sometimes, we can’t even know some pinout schema without trial and error.

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  • Lemmchen@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I own a Chuwi Larkbox X (another N100 device) and I can’t tell it to boot up after a power failure in the BIOS. So that is another thing to keep in mind.

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    • emptiestplace@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It might be ‘state after G3’

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  • MonkderDritte@feddit.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I see one 4-pin, a 3-pin(?), a 8-pin and multiple 9-pin connectors.

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    • SteveTech@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Looks like 2x 4 pin fan headers:

      A diagram of the motherboard

      But yeah I’ve got an AliExpress X99 board, which threw all sorts of hardware errors, had no fan speed control (100% all the time), no working hwmon sensors, and I ended up buying a used Supermicro board instead.

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• azl@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The features sounded good enough for me to click with intent to buy (as a firewall/router), but no SFP and no PCIe expansion slot means I can’t use it with fiber. And with just one 10Gb port, the maximum it will be able to pass through is 2.5Gb/s (assuming the rest of the board is up to the task).

  Looks like it would be nice for a small home server.

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  • RegalPotoo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    servethehome.com/everything-homelab-node-goes-1u-… would probably be a better bet for a router

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  • assembly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Could be good as a firewall with PFSense or something. 2.5gb to the ISP and a 10gb trunk port. Would be an upgrade for me. All I would use is a drive in it though.

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• Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

  Fewer Letters	More Letters
  NVMe	Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage
  PCIe	Peripheral Component Interconnect Express
  SATA	Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage

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• cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That looks interesting. Does anyone have a link to it? The only thing that comes up in the search results is the liliputing article.

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  • agentsac@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can find it on AliExpress by searching for ‘Topton N100 NAS motherboard.’

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    • Lemmchen@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you simply search for “N100”, sort by price and scroll down a bit, you will find quite a lot of entries for that board.

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• MonkderDritte@feddit.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just got a standard Mini-ITX board with overspecced VRMs and a PCIe slot in the end. Good enough.

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• just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Could be an edge device, but not for inference. Could a storage device carrier board I guess.

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