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Beelink ME mini is a NAS with an Intel N200 processor and support for up to 6 SSDs (liliputing.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Lemmchen@feddit.org to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 67 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yeah that's just so dumb. Also, i wouldn't be comfortable with the OS on eMMC storage. That's hardly known for reliability. So close and yet so far.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 month ago

If it was cost effective maybe but I think this is a bit pricy

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Eh, 12GB is plenty for me. I'm currently using ~3GB out of 16GB, so I'm nowhere close to that cap. My NAS really doesn't do much.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, that's fine if that works for you, but consider more than just your current situation. If you ever wanted to upgrade it or it ever failed sometime in the future, you'd be boned. Personally I have had RAM fail and it cost me about $8 and 10 minutes to repair, rather than several hundred dollars replacing the entire machine.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sure. I just don't see myself needing more than 8GB RAM, especially w/ fast NVMe drives as swap. It's a simple NAS running Jellyfin (max 1-2 clients) and a handful of other services.

If I need more RAM, chances are I'll also need more CPU as well, in which case a larger upgrade is in order. If I truly only need more RAM, I could pretty easily move some services to an SBC like a Raspberry Pi.

It's certainly a bummer, but not a deal breaker. If the price is right and I can find inexpensive enough NVMe drives, I can compromise a bit on RAM.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

especially w/ fast NVMe drives as swap

These won't be fast, as detailed in the OP:

Since Intel’s Alder Lake-N processors only have 9 PCIe lanes which have to be shared between the SSDs and other hardware, the M.2 slots include five PCIe 3.0 single-lane connections, and one PCIe 3.0 x2 connection

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

PCIe 3.0 is 1 GB/s per lane. So nothing life changing, but still reasonably fast (way faster a HDD). If you rarely need swap, you should be fine for the few times you do.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

Fair enough, mate. Good luck.