ME Pro

Agreed about Beelink and GMKtec, I’ve had good experiences thus far with both. The Beelink ME PRO is an impressive hybrid NAS for the price with N95 and N150 options and the ability to support m.2, 2.5” SATA, and 3.5” HDDs

Personally did a bit of research into this myself as I have a similar interest, with the addition of running Immich and the arr* stack. Also want to use TrueNAS scale so my journey stuck to intel based systems. Landed on: - Terramaster F4-425 Plus or- Beelink ME Pro 2-Bay In the end I am leaning mor

The new Beelink ME Pro supports 2× HDD, and 3× SSD. Use a smaller SSD to hold TrueNAS, that leaves you with an SSD RAID1 for high speed "Warm" storage and a HDD RAID1 for "Cool" storage. But: the Ethernet maxes out at 5 Gigabit. That may be a deal breaker for you.

I use the Beelink ME Pro for this... But I doubt that fits into your power budget. I have that set up with mirrored 20tb drives and a couple of ssd m.2s for easy injection. The nvme goes to the OS.

Yeah a lot of people recommend against USB. I have a m715q and do wish it had USB 3 at least. Limited drives is definitely a factor for mini PCs like the m700s though they are reliable platforms. If you don’t mind spending a little more, the Beelink ME PRO is a good entry level NAS with multiple dri

Maybes it’s US only but the one I bought is still available at that price here - https://www.seagate.com/products/seagate-recertified/ - that is the lowest capacity and price they have for recertified though. At a $1k budget for NAS plus a few services I’d personally recommend any sub-$600 HDD and t

2 ssd and 2 hdd sounds like a perfect combo for beelink ME Pro minis pc / nas

How many HDDs do you have? Because I have a Beelink ME Pro with 2 HDDs in it and it's amazingly quiet. It lives in my bedroom and I never hear the drives. And it uses a NUC N150 so it has a 25W TDP. It also has slots for 3 NVMEs. So if you don't have more than 2 HDDs, you might want to consider retu

Yes, I agree about power but expandability? it has 2 sata and 1 pcie port which you could use for either 1 nvme or 1 gpu but not both. A regular nas like ugreen 2 ba has already same sata and 2 nvme, same with beelink me pro. So expandability in theory becasue you has to choose fast storage or gpu

2xBay NAS wont benefit fully of 10GBE, even if you buy Sata SSDs,. That said, check out Beelink ME Pro Mini PC, its a 2 Bay NAS with 2.5gbe and 5gbe lan connections, no 10gbe, they do sell in Japan. If you want more info check The Beelink ME Pro is the Tiniest Storage Server I've Ever Seen! Now if y