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@Dylan This would be better I think. ” NAS built in 2015? No, SFF instead! ” So, some of my old topic title left for those looking for the familiar name of a topic. Thanks for your help!.

So, could you change the title of your own topic, in some way? I don’t see an obvious method of doing it. Anybody wiser than me?

Now, I’m on my way to earning the moniker ”SFF ninja” given to me by @Dylan in another post. Not there yet but slowly going in that direction.

I told you earlier, this mini is sold under another brand. This video review is of a ”CWWK Pocket NAS” which to my eyes look exactly the same, as my own StoneStorm device. This thing with different branding is not unusual in Chinese electronic products, like computers and HiFi gear. Here we go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09emfOJW9g8

So, before I would have time to open my own StoneStorm Pocket NAS, as they call it, I believe it’s about time I told you about videos I found. This first one is, I believe associated with the brand itself. It shows you how to get into the inner space and so. There are some Q and A in the comments also. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-b1ipi7ii8

And I’ll check with your lspci some time in coming days, Thanks for the suggestion!

@DomSmith OT, There’s is a river way up north in Sweden, that’s bifurcated, so splits into two rivers.

And I paid of course custom fees and tax before delivery. In fact AFTER!, FedEX sent a bill that I got after delivery.

So, for anyone interested in this mini on ipc.net where I got mine, in December. There is still "New arrivals 10% off". I paid 477USD, no shipping charged, even though they state "only $323 away from free shipping". Of course you could get on on amazon.com but maybe not with all choices for configuration?

Well, I might have been a bit optimistic there. You did say ”this presumably passes the 1x4 up to the expansion board where it's then presented as 4x1.”

With the riser card, do you mean an M.2 drive could be used there? I’m not that much into M.2 slots. I bult computers with classic SATA connection for drives.

My story under ”Customer Lobby”. Now continued here:

So, another picture from the ipc.net support team. I had to ask them questions, this information wasn’t in the user manual. I’ve also shown this under Customer Lobby in December. Video coming later, about how to get inside this petite PC.

Yes, thank you.. I have somewhat come to the same conclusion. I’m on that track and I’ve got as SSD to work with. Found a video too, that I will refer to in a future post.

The industrial SSD called for, would have to be something like this: This picture is from the ipc.net, (where I got this mini) support team.

On first boot I came to a screen saying something like ”Welcome to the ProxMox virtual environment”. I’m not familiar with ProxMox, YET, so didn’t explore that further.

So, I went for the N305 with 32GB of RAM, About the M.2 slots. There are four slots available, which I would use for storage only. IF I can get to grips with the Industrial SSD to use for the OS (well in this case of course HexOS). I will come back to that. I wrote about this under ”Customer Lobby” in December. The specified hard drive - my choice was a 512GB one - turned out to be one of the four NVMe slots occupied for this drive. And it was connected correctly to the motherboard. It could be seen, using DrParted on an USB-stick for booting. I got four NVMe drives for storage, separately, and plan to use this 512GB for external extra storage. You could get this mini as a barebone also, but then I guess you would get to buy the memory stick of your choice. I believe this motherboard could take up to 48GB of RAM.

Only thing is, I misspelled the ubergeek username, and corrected that in next post. I’ve not used this tagging, before you. Actually I don’t know what it does 😉 Seen it on this forum…. And I’ll be back with more mini-NAS stories, you know.

Sorry @ubergeek in my last post

@Dylan @uberggek @Mawson. So the question was, when I left this story by Christmas, where to put an OS disk?. Pictures from their support teams show something that looks like a type of industrial SSD, just the chip, without the outer case. Industrial SSD:s aren’t easily available to Joe, the customer. I contacted a seller in Europe, who told me they only sell to corporative clients. I found some videos online that show you how to get into the inner part of this beauty. YouTube is your friend! I’ll post them in due time. Life seems to be more than HexOS, who could believe?! And about the industrial SSD, there might be be a solution to that problem, also. Found another video…

Well, this one actually turned out fine 😉

So, I’m having big problems writing posts in this forum. I try to make the layout clear and easy to get through, for those reading it. Then when I’ve pressed the ”Submit Topic” button, to read through my post it often looks quite different. Anyone else having this issue? I would like to treats posts the same way I do, writing longer pieces of text, with paragraphs and so on. But how to do it properly in this forum?

Second picture here, instead

So here I’m going to continue my story of the petite PC, branded StoneStorm in my case. Not ON my case 😉 there’s no logo or branding visible. I believe it’s sold under another name also. More of that, later. I started this story under ”Customer Lobby” but found it time to move in here. You could use the size of the ethernet ports and USB ports in the attached picture, to appreciate how small this one is. Amazon is a reseller of this brand in the US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DG8LX6M6?ref=nav_custrec_signin&ref_=cm_sw_r_cso_cp_apin_dp_ARXRNNSBNATMWSN38KC2&social_share=cm_sw_r_cso_cp_apin_dp_ARXRNNSBNATMWSN38KC2&peakEvent=4&starsLeft=1&skipTwisterOG=1&th=1 For me amazon. com didn’t work since they do not ship to Sweden, where I’m from. I got it here instead: https://ipc.net/products/4-bay-nas-pocket-pc-dual-2-5gbe-i226-v-lan-ports-12th-gen-n100-n305-with-ddr5-max-48gb-4-m-2-nvme-2280-dual-4k-display-2-usb3-2-10gbps-for-micro-firewall-router-nas-mini-computer?variant=44328463630494 Shipping worked perfectly. Delivered by FedEx in about a week, or so. Now it’s time to take the lid off, as in the second picture. There are two notches for your fingers, and the lid just snaps out. Of course ”snaps” in my country, here in the vodka belt, means something totally different. On the underside of the lid, you can see that it’s used as a heat sink, with four contact points for the NVMe drives. The case is totally made of aluminum, which makes it very solid., and heavy. No plastic here… More will come when I’m ready. Just a comment: I happened to press the Quote button above without meaning to, and repeated it to see if that helped in removing it. So, it didn’t 😉