Let’s take a look at a “toy” that caught my attention and that I wanted to test to improve or expand my homelab!
This little device comes in several configurations. I have the top model, with a quad-core Celeron, 8 GB of RAM, and 32 GB of onboard storage!
It’s a great fit for my homelab!
It comes with built-in connectivity, making it flexible for many uses!
It’s great to have two network cards and two SATA ports!
PCIe (x4), USB 3.0, and a heatsink make it quiet and low-power!
NAS, firewall, server, and more.
The possibilities are endless!
You’ll see in the specifications that it’s small and powerful!
The price is great: $120, $160, or $200.
Given everything it includes, I think it’s a great device and wanted to share it with you.
Here’s a screenshot of the two ways I’m using these little devices:
Here are a few photos of the product right out of the box!
It comes with a SATA + power cable for one disk and a power supply with plugs for different countries.
Manual and stickers!!!!
We’ll keep playing with these “toys.” Having a low-power server
with enough power to run our labs, home pfSense firewalls, and more…
is fantastic!
Forget noisy servers, big PCs, or mini-computers with CPUs that don’t always offer the versatility of an Intel Celeron Apollo Lake x86 processor!
Regards.