4xSATA ports so it will be a fairly modest NAS, also at that price point it has a lot of competition from budget CPUs and mini-ITX mainboards.
It looks like it could be a pretty nice little SFF desktop. The low power draw means you don't need active cooling and it has everything built in so you won't need some dongle (other than power) to integrate. The only issue is that it's not Intel so if your employee needs to run MS Office or be managed from the domain it won't work. But for the receptionist or for a kiosk or many other uses this could be pretty nice, especially if you are trying to cut down on energy use.
It also has an M.2 slot for the I/O heavy stuff. There is a natural limit to how fast you want to stream movies from disk, so I wouldn't care. Its just that for the same price, I can get a Synology with a 4C Celeron which wouldn't be much worse at far less effort.
It also has a PCIe x4 Gen 3 slot that you could drop a SATA card in if you really want to go big.
A 10 second search turns up plenty of options that will turn that port into 10+ SATA ports for like $65. Dunno about the driver situation in that case though.
The single M.2 slot would probably be used for the OS and maybe a cache. Having just 1 fast drive in an array usually isn't a win.
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4xSATA ports so it will be a fairly modest NAS, also at that price point it has a lot of competition from budget CPUs and mini-ITX mainboards.
It looks like it could be a pretty nice little SFF desktop. The low power draw means you don't need active cooling and it has everything built in so you won't need some dongle (other than power) to integrate. The only issue is that it's not Intel so if your employee needs to run MS Office or be managed from the domain it won't work. But for the receptionist or for a kiosk or many other uses this could be pretty nice, especially if you are trying to cut down on energy use.
If it's a desktop, you can put on a large heatsink, there are plenty of passive enclosures for the standard intel NUC
Seems like those would be better off with an 'all-in-one' computer in a monitor, less cables and you need a screen anyway
It also has an M.2 slot for the I/O heavy stuff. There is a natural limit to how fast you want to stream movies from disk, so I wouldn't care. Its just that for the same price, I can get a Synology with a 4C Celeron which wouldn't be much worse at far less effort.
It also has a PCIe x4 Gen 3 slot that you could drop a SATA card in if you really want to go big.
A 10 second search turns up plenty of options that will turn that port into 10+ SATA ports for like $65. Dunno about the driver situation in that case though.
The single M.2 slot would probably be used for the OS and maybe a cache. Having just 1 fast drive in an array usually isn't a win.