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

2/4. I have just built my Beelink Me Pro NAS running ZimaOS, I would like to have SSD caching options, but overall I’m more than happy with my current setup and running Home Assistant in ZVM. I would extend my current setup for local AI, I am very curious about it since it’s fanless too Power effici

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

What about something like this? https://www.bee-link.com/products/beelink-me-pro?variant=48421962154226 Those are the low-end Alder Lake N CPUs (successor to the Atom line), but they're entirely good enough to do the kinds of things you're talking about, including (say) play back a couple of Plex st

Currently I'm running on a NUC with 2 external USB. But I just received Beelink ME Pro a few weeks ago and still migrating to it. It will be a significant upgrade since Intel N95 support AV1 decoding.

FWIW, I have that box's bigger brother, the Beelink ME Pro (same N95 and UHD iGPU) running Frigate without any extra cards. So far one 4k turret cam and one 2k doorbell cam. CPU does not really break a sweat. GPU helps out with detection and face recognition on events, but mostly idles. Also curious

The Beelink ME PRO is a great starter NAS, the N95 is still solid though the N150 would be a bit more future proof. Otherwise maybe shoot for a Ryzen 7, 16-32 GB RAM, as many drive slots as you can get, etc.

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

Just buy a NAS build + mini pc like beelink me pro. Majority of the users would like to use with ease. If you're part of the majority. Hehe

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