misterlegend

The power button cover really is a nice touch.

Yeah. The CWWK came with memory and "storage" but it was a random letter generator SSD that I would not trust to have more that 5 read/write cycles before dying lol. Surprisingly the RAM was crucial, but I didn't need RAM. And taking it apart to replace the memory and storage was... interesting. The access door on the WTR makes a TON more sense.

Yep, so far both drive and CPU temps are better. Also, the only visible LEDs (when you use the front cover) are network. I'll put it to you this way, the WTR Pro weights almost as much empty as the CWWK did with drives in it lol. Awesome! Good luck! Thanks!

Now with 100% more Aoostor WTR Pro I jumped ship lol. The blue lights and build quality on the CWWK was just worlds apart. Luckily, Amazon's return window was extra long, so I only had an hour of downtime while I swapped systems.

o0o0o there's no eye-searing blue LEDs all over the WTR Pro. That'll be nice for your planned bedroom use case. The 120mm fan and easy access to the RAM & SSD are nice additions. This one has a 92mm and it has a bit of a hum to it + non-standard power connector.

That one looks a fair bit more substantial. Esp being an extruded aluminum shell. I liked the larger exhaust and CPU fans as well. It's what I was looking at first, but I was impatient lol. I know it'll come to Amazon at some point, but it's not there yet. I tend to get them from Amazon since the return policy is bullet proof if something goes sideways in the first 30 days (or more since Christmas return window).

Thanks! It was part of the NAS kit. It looks nice on the outside, but it is VERY thin metal. Even if they could sell it separately, I wouldn't recommend it unless it was like $50 lol.

I decided to take HexOS for a spin. I've got a couple of TrueNAS servers and know full well how challenging it can be. I was curious to see if HexOS is something I could setup for someone else w/o needing to be their forever tech support. I put together this CWWK S11 NAS quickly when the sale went live. It has an Intel N100, 32GB of DDR4, and an SK Hynix OEM 256GB OS drive. For storage there are 4x Seagate Ironwolf Pros from a retired Plex NAS. Installation was quite simple and went quickly. I did run into a hiccup with deck.hexos.com taking about 20 mins to see my NAS, but I just kinda went off to do something else and it was detected by the time I got back. The promise of an offline interface is definitely the only reason I tried it. As long as that is 100% going to happen, I like what I see. It's pretty keen of the devs to make Immich first app they had ready in the beta. If you can make that painless, you've won. And it was painless. I was up and running and dumping images into it within minutes. Very much akin to grabbing an app from the QNAP or Synology store. Keep up the good work!