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Why not the N100? Even an N305 fits the purpose, the N100 would be even less https://www.reddit.com/r/MiniPCs/comments/12fv7fh/beelink_eq12_notes_is_the_ultrae

by chx 3y ago

Why not the N100? Even an N305 fits the purpose, the N100 would be even less https://www.reddit.com/r/MiniPCs/comments/12fv7fh/beelink_eq12_notes_is_the_ultraefficient_6w_tdp/kdtw9to/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MiniPCs/comments/12fv7fh/beelink_eq...

cjdell 3y ago
I'm very impressed with my N100 mini PC (fits in your palm) that I bought from AliExpress. Takes between 2-8W and uses just a plain old 12V plug-style power supply with a DC barrel. Perfect for Home Assistant and light virtualisation. Performance is actually better than my quad core i5-6500 mini PC. Definitely no slouch.
imglorp 3y ago
Because author said they wanted a bunch of disks.
hrdwdmrbl 3y ago
+1 for the Nx00 series of chips. I just bought myself a pre-built mini pc with an N100. Low power, good price, great performance. I wonder if in a few years they might not eat the whole mini PC market. If the price can come down such that they’re competitive with the various kinds of Pis…
arp242 3y ago
N100 wasn't yet released when this was written in May (or was only just released). Also the N100 only supports 16G RAM, and this guy has 64G. Number of pcix lanes (9 vs. 20) probably matter for their use case as well. And the i5 does seem quite a bit faster in general. Comparison: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/compare.html?productIds=134586,231803 https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/compare.html?pro...
- s800 3y ago
  I'm running a home server on an N100 (ITX model) with a 32GB DIMM, works well.
  - adrian_b 3y ago
    It has been widely reported that Alder Lake N actually works with 32 GB, but for some reason Intel does not support this configuration officially. The same happened with the previous generations of Intel Atom CPUs, they have always worked without any apparent problems with more memory than the maximum specified by Intel.
trescenzi 3y ago
I bought a tiny, fits in the palm of my hand, N100 box on Amazon for $150[1]. It currently does basically everything I need and idles at 7.5W. I’ve got cloudflare setup for dns management and a few simple sites hosted on it like blogs and Gitea. It has an sd card slot that I use as extra storage. Sure it’s not nearly as awesome as the setup detailed here but I couldn’t recommend it more if you just want a small simple home server. [1] https://a.co/d/cIzEFPk https://a.co/d/cIzEFPk
- SomeoneFromCA 3y ago
  7.5 W is a bit high idle for N100, IMHO. Power supply is not very efficient I bet.
NelsonMinar 3y ago
Another happy N100 mini PC user. Mine's about 7W when idle, including a couple of spinning USB drives. The most I could get it to pull was about 14W. Really remarkable little systems for a very good price.
Havoc 3y ago
Very few pcie lanes

by chx 3y ago

cjdell 3y ago

I'm very impressed with my N100 mini PC (fits in your palm) that I bought from AliExpress. Takes between 2-8W and uses just a plain old 12V plug-style power supply with a DC barrel. Perfect for Home Assistant and light virtualisation. Performance is actually better than my quad core i5-6500 mini PC. Definitely no slouch.

imglorp 3y ago

Because author said they wanted a bunch of disks.

hrdwdmrbl 3y ago

+1 for the Nx00 series of chips. I just bought myself a pre-built mini pc with an N100. Low power, good price, great performance. I wonder if in a few years they might not eat the whole mini PC market. If the price can come down such that they’re competitive with the various kinds of Pis…

arp242 3y ago

N100 wasn't yet released when this was written in May (or was only just released). Also the N100 only supports 16G RAM, and this guy has 64G. Number of pcix lanes (9 vs. 20) probably matter for their use case as well. And the i5 does seem quite a bit faster in general. Comparison: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/compare.html?productIds=134586,231803 https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/compare.html?pro...

s800 3y ago
I'm running a home server on an N100 (ITX model) with a 32GB DIMM, works well.
- adrian_b 3y ago
  It has been widely reported that Alder Lake N actually works with 32 GB, but for some reason Intel does not support this configuration officially. The same happened with the previous generations of Intel Atom CPUs, they have always worked without any apparent problems with more memory than the maximum specified by Intel.

trescenzi 3y ago

I bought a tiny, fits in the palm of my hand, N100 box on Amazon for $150[1]. It currently does basically everything I need and idles at 7.5W. I’ve got cloudflare setup for dns management and a few simple sites hosted on it like blogs and Gitea. It has an sd card slot that I use as extra storage. Sure it’s not nearly as awesome as the setup detailed here but I couldn’t recommend it more if you just want a small simple home server. [1] https://a.co/d/cIzEFPk https://a.co/d/cIzEFPk

SomeoneFromCA 3y ago
7.5 W is a bit high idle for N100, IMHO. Power supply is not very efficient I bet.

NelsonMinar 3y ago

Another happy N100 mini PC user. Mine's about 7W when idle, including a couple of spinning USB drives. The most I could get it to pull was about 14W. Really remarkable little systems for a very good price.

Havoc 3y ago

Very few pcie lanes