Not who you asked but I got the Me2 cube from Beelink. It runs Truenas and has been reliable so far. The giant downside is nvme drive cost, like 3-4x from when I bought it.
If you are just storing data, find the really old Proliant cube servers on EBay, like an N40L. There’s only one fan, if it works you can get 4 hard drives for cheaper than nvme, nstall truenas or xigmanas, and you have a slow but useful and reliable file server, with ECC memory and all kinds of useful things. 60w and quiet.
I’m currently running a U59 and storage is not a problem, although I have mechanical drives. I don’t know if it is the best or optimal solution, but I am using mergerfs and I have a HDD bay to split the data into different drives.
Not who you asked but I got the Me2 cube from Beelink. It runs Truenas and has been reliable so far. The giant downside is nvme drive cost, like 3-4x from when I bought it.
If you are just storing data, find the really old Proliant cube servers on EBay, like an N40L. There’s only one fan, if it works you can get 4 hard drives for cheaper than nvme, nstall truenas or xigmanas, and you have a slow but useful and reliable file server, with ECC memory and all kinds of useful things. 60w and quiet.
I’m currently running a U59 and storage is not a problem, although I have mechanical drives. I don’t know if it is the best or optimal solution, but I am using mergerfs and I have a HDD bay to split the data into different drives.