NAS built in 2015? No, SFF instead!

[ulfn]

A last picture from today. This is how it looks inside under the layer I lifted out. 

[Sonic]

Nice journey! Looking forward to see HexOs on your mini NAS. 

Can you share your experiences with the temperature? I'm really curious about the cooling system in this NAS mini PC.

 

 

[ulfn]

Well there IS a fan inside, and an optional external fan you could mount on the top cover. I got it with my Pocket NAS, even though on their website they say it’s an optional thing. I would need to have it all ready before I can tell you more about it. The four screw holes on the top are meant for the external one. Best thing is, I’ve never heard the internal fan, and the external one seems very quiet also, when I tested it. When I’ve built computers I’ve used Noctua fans, so I’m quite spoiled, in this regard. By the way, all the metal of the box itself seems aimed at dissipating heat. I will be back.

[ulfn]

The internal fan is like one of the layers when you go from top to bottom, so it’s ”format filling”, I would guess it’s  a standard 92x92 mm computer fan, or possibly an 80x80 mm one.

[ulfn]

Just a comment about the internal fan, in my latest post. A standard computer fan it may be, but it would have to be a thin one. Otherwise it would be a like fan with a computer board attached to it.

[ulfn]

On 3/9/2025 at 7:25 PM, Sonic said:

Nice journey! Looking forward to see HexOs on your mini NAS. 

Can you share your experiences with the temperature? I'm really curious about the cooling system in this NAS mini PC.

 

 

As I said, the full picture is only apparent when the OS disk is in place, together with the four NVMe drives,. And I guess the four NVMe ones are the heat creating disks in this setup. Still having a bit of struggle with the (Hex)OS drive, but working on it. Any temperature numbers now wouldn’t be meaningful. So again, I will be back.

[ulfn]

And I sent a question, again, about how and where to install  the OS disk. For you who didn’t follow this from the start, I sent several questions earlier to the ipc.net support team., since I couldn’t get all information from the user manual. I told them all the time I write about this mini PC in a forum, and wanted to get correct information to pass on to others interested in this Pocket NAS. A miniature PC like this, is very different from your normal one with a regular motherboard . In this small scale, there are many custom solutions, and it isn’t always apparent where things should go.