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MonkderDritte ,

I just got a standard Mini-ITX board with overspecced VRMs and a PCIe slot in the end. Good enough. At least it can sleep and behaves as expected.

Decronym Bot , (edited )

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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NAS Network-Attached Storage
NVMe Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage
PCIe Peripheral Component Interconnect Express
SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage

3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 3 acronyms.

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just_another_person , (edited )

Could be an edge device, but not for inference. Could be a storage device carrier board I guess.

azl ,

The features sounded good enough for me to click with intent to buy (as a firewall/router), but no SFP and no PCIe expansion slot means I can’t use it with fiber. And with just one 10Gb port, the maximum it will be able to pass through is 2.5Gb/s (assuming the rest of the board is up to the task).

Looks like it would be nice for a small home server.

assembly ,

Could be good as a firewall with PFSense or something. 2.5gb to the ISP and a 10gb trunk port. Would be an upgrade for me. All I would use is a drive in it though.

RegalPotoo ,
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servethehome.com/everything-homelab-node-goes-1u-… would probably be a better bet for a router

cmnybo ,

That looks interesting. Does anyone have a link to it? The only thing that comes up in the search results is the liliputing article.

agentsac , (edited )

I think you can find it for sale on AliExpress by searching for ‘Topton N100 NAS motherboard.’

Lemmchen OP ,
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If you simply search for “N100”, sort by price and scroll down a bit, you will find quite a lot of entries for that board.

aseriesoftubes ,

Pretty killer specs on paper. In my experience, these AliExpress boards have a bunch of minor annoyances that add up. Examples of those annoyances from my experience include:

  • a complete lack of support after the sale (you’ll never get a BIOS update, or if you do, you have to get it from some dodgy Chinese Dropbox-equivalent),
  • a lack of 4-pin chassis fan headers,
  • outdated SATA controllers that don’t let your computer reach higher C-states, and
  • non-standard CPU coolers that you’ll never be able to replace if they fail.
nossaquesapao ,

So true. I’d complement the first point to include a general lack of documentation. Sometimes, we can’t even know some pinout schema without trial and error.

Lemmchen OP ,
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I own a Chuwi Larkbox X (another N100 device) and I can’t tell it to boot up after a power failure in the BIOS. So that is another thing to keep in mind.

emptiestplace ,

It might be ‘state after G3’

MonkderDritte ,

I see one 4-pin, a 3-pin(?), a 8-pin and multiple 9-pin connectors.

SteveTech ,

Looks like 2x 4 pin fan headers:

A diagram of the motherboard

But yeah I’ve got an AliExpress X99 board, which threw all sorts of hardware errors, had no fan speed control (100% all the time), no working hwmon sensors, and I ended up buying a used Supermicro board instead.

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