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mpat
Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2025
This thing is awesome! The value is fantastic, with such good performance for the price. I opened it up, and the construction is top notch. I'm using this a a dedicated computer for running Home Assistant. It couldn't have been easier to install Home Assistant on it, and it works like a charm!It does have a fan that runs all the time (I was hoping the fan would turn off when the CPU isn't under load), but maybe the CPU needs active cooling even when not under load.I didn't have the ability to load test, but the most power I saw during boot was 12W. When idling with Home Assistant running, it only consumes 8-9W. These numbers are AC input into AC adapter. I don't know the efficiency of the adapter so wanted to also measure the DC input with a benchtop supply, but I couldn't find a suitable DC jack. It has an unusually large center pin on the power input, so pay attention to that if you power from another source. While the AC adapter input is 8-9W, it's 17VA so power factor is only about 0.51. Not very good! So best if you have a very high PF 12V supply in your system to hook this into. One nice thing about the low power consumption is that it can be powered by a PoE adapter that splits out Ethernet / DC power.I was leaning towards a Raspberry Pi 5 for this application to keep power consumption low, but so glad I went this route since it's also very low power consumption, but much better value when you figure in the more powerful processor, memory, and SSD.Note that it does not have a USB-C port, but luckily I don't need one for my application so would hate for the cost to be driven up to add one.
Sailorman
Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2025
This replaced a Intel i3 desktop that couldn't be updated to Windows 11 and was getting slow. This is a really cool replacement - does everything we need, mounts easily on the back of the monitor, has WiFi and CAT5 internet connections, plenty of USB ports and HDMI ports. I like the size of the SSD, and you can add more RAM if you want. But it doesn't seem to need it. I like everything about this box.I usually build my own desktops, but there's really no need anymore.
doğan çırakoğlu
Reviewed in Turkey on July 17, 2024
Ev kullanımı için çok ideal.Düşük güç tüketimi sessiz
Mbontoh paul
Reviewed in Saudi Arabia on February 12, 2024
Works great, I recommend
RaF
Reviewed in Mexico on December 16, 2024
Dejo de encender después de año y medio de uso.
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2024
I purchased this with the intention of using it as my new Home Assistant server to keep on the basement shelf with all my other home Internet gear. I was impressed by its small size, relatively low power consumption and how feature-loaded it came.Given that this mini PC came with Windows 11 Professional (even withthis low price! ), I diverted this box to my desk for a while to play with it a bit. The Windows build was a bit older, so I ended up testing an in-place upgrade to 24H2, which took about a half hour to complete. Most other activities I ran on this box were at a decent speed for a box of this nature.Since this was going to be my first venture into Home Assistant, I opted to first set this up inside a Hyper-V VM, which started off well, but as I started cramming more components into HA, I realized I was running out of RAM to hold both Windows itself and the VM. I ended up swapping out the 8 GB RAM module for a 16 GB stick I picked up on Amazon as well, and that left me in good shape. Eventually, I got comfortable enough with HA to go beyond the proof of concept stage and wiped the SSD drive and loaded it with a native install of HAOS.While the M.2 SSD interface supports NVMe drives as well, the included drive was only a SATA SSD. I used a Sabrent enclosure that supported both standards to load HAOS on the drive. Had I stuck with the original 8 GB of RAM, I would have been perfectly fine with it, as Home Assistant is currently reporting that it's only using about 1.1 GB out of the 15 GB it sees now.This Mini PC was a perfect choice for my intended use, with good apparent quality and speed for my purposes. Given that I'm not running it too hard and that it's housed in the basement, cooling has not been an issue. Based on my experience here, I would not hesitate to recommend it for a similar use or the need for a small computer in the future.
Happy Nomad
Reviewed in India on October 25, 2024
The size of the mini PC is so perfect that I can hide it behind my monitor which makes my monitor a "all in one PC". This is enough powerful for my needs. Recommended.
Brian Frantz
Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2023
It's amazing how cheap these mini PCs have become. I bought this to replace a 10-yr old Intel i5 NUC that I've been using as an always-on file server. The NUC was still working but was starting to act up at times, and feeling pretty slow. This thing cost less than half as much as that one did, is even smaller, twice as fast, uses less power and after spending the evening getting everything set up, I never even heard the fan (the old one would get noisy even when just running background tasks sometimes).Don't necessarily expect this to last as long as my last one did given that was an Intel product, but so far very happy.For those interested, I run this with Windows and a 4-bay QNAP RAID 1 USB enclosure to store/host my main file storage. This is shared on my local network and mounted as a network drive on my main PC (which is quite power-hungry so I only turn on when I use it). By having my important files (mainly family pictures/videos) on an always-on PC, I can have them back up to the Cloud without having to worry about keeping my main PC on long enough for the upload to finish. And by running Windows instead of Linux, I can back up my full 8TB (and growing) of personal data to Backblaze Personal for $7/mo (which they only offer to Windows/Mac users with direct-attached storage). Windows may not be the typical choice for a file server, but this is the least expensive and easiest way to back up this much data to the cloud that I've found. I also run SyncBack to maintain a local backup to a second external HDD. It took me all of a couple hours to get everything set up and migrated over to this from the NUC and so far it's working great.
Joe Mann
Reviewed in Singapore on October 16, 2023
Value for money, system mid range.Highly recommended.
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