Firewall Mini PC N100

No, it's still a NAS. What you would be building is a NAS. SAS is a different type of connection capable of higher speeds, 12GB/s whilst SATA is 6GB/s. Now in a NAS, you're not going to notice this, at all. It's simply the protocol. An SAS HBA (Host Bus Adapter) would simply allow the use of cheaper

I have 5xHDDs, 4xSSD, and 1xM.2 connected to this N100 board. I have this USBC card in it and this M.2 SATA adapter in it. I stuffed it all into a Jonsbo N2 (pic), but you could put it in any old pc case. You could swap the USB card for a SATA card and get all of your drives connected. A $163 ITX bo

You could use the newer CWWK board. It has a PCIe 3.0 x4 slot. Then add a SFP+ NIC.

i was hunting for the same specs a few months back and ended up going with a cwwk intel n100 board - fits your budget and has dual m.2 plus a sata port for a 3.5 drive. pair it with a cheap mini itx case and you're set. if you want something prebuilt the topton n100 boxes sometimes have similar conf

There are a wide range of options for someone with your seemingly low needs, but high budget. You can run all you mention on any $150 N100 mini pc, but the N150 is out so that may be preferable. Here is an example. However, those machines don't offer any ability to upgrade or add storage. You mentio

I run a 3-node Proxmox cluster with Ceph, and Opnsense as firewall and AdGuard as DNS server. Works extremely well, low TDP and highly stable. Two of the nodes, an N100 and N5150 system are from Topton and the third one, another N100 based mini PC is from CWWK. In hindsight, I would get all CWWK wit

Upgrade to that https://cwwk.net/products/cwwk-12th-gen-i3-n305-n100-2-intel-i226-v-2-5g-nas-motherboard-6-sata3-0-6-bay-soft-rout-1-ddr5-4800mhz-firewall-itx-mainboard

Consider swapping that motherboard with this one from CWWK. CWWK and Topton have a close relationship and I believe Topton sells CWWK boards. I got the N100 version of that purple board when it came out because it rearranges the PCIe lanes to be more useful than previous iterations. This video expla