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Right before Streaming came alone, I have 400 blue ray movies Collected in a phyically in Sony BDP-CX960 that broke down also very slow to start a movie cause movie pre -views and Carousel moving around, is it ok to save blue rays to NAS?

That probably one of the most in-depth reviews on this platform. Great work!

I’ve got 256MB USB drives which still have data on them from over 15 years ago.

Silly question: can you power up that mini pc with a gan usbc charger? I am wondering if my ugreen 100w charger could power my phone and this pc together…

I ordered one for work. It'll be great.

so your saying that if i have 40tb of storage ill need 80tb just so i dont lose my data? there is no way around this?

i want to change the allocation unit from the default to 1024k is there a way to do this or a setting so that it does it automatically when i add a drive to the pool?????

The story so far: Purchased from Amazon, GMKtec Mini PC N97 Windows 11 Pro Micro Desktop Computer, 12th Gen Intel N97 12GB DDR5+256GB SSD, runs fine. Purchased from Amazon, Dogfish SSD M.2 2242 1TB NGFF Internal Solid State Drive High Performance Hard Drive for Desktop Laptop SATA III 6Gb/s (1TB, M.2 2242). Installed Macrium Reflect on a portable hard drive and made a bootable Macrium Reflect clone of original 256 Gb SSD system on 64Gb USB thumb drive. Made copies of Create Windows 11 Installation Media on two separate USB thumb drives, (just in case). Set BIOS to boot from USB. Installed new SSD, restart boots straight to BIOS, try F7 boot, Reflect clone drive gives blue screen Error code 0xc00000e. Try F7 reboot with Win 11 Create Windows 11 Installation thumb drive, changes screen resolution font size only, no further progress with either drive. Research shows GMKtec indicate “Secure Boot” should be enabled. Check BIOS (still with 1Tb SSD installed and see “Secure Boot” is disabled. Cannot get access to the “Secure Boot” screen in BIOS security settings again with 1Tb SSD. Reinstall original 256GB SSD, now have access to “Secure Boot” screen in BIOS security settings, follow GMKtec instructions to enable “Secure Boot”, Save and exit BIOS. Reinstall 1TB SSD, attempt to boot from all thumb drives, same result. Recheck BIOS and notice “Secure Boot” is disabled again, and I am locked out of making changes. Manage to turn on “Secure Boot” again by pressing F2? (reset to previous setting)., (still no proper access to “Secure Boot” in BIOS security settings). Reboot from any device still fails.

burn in test. never forget the burn in test. in particular with this level of hw. if its gonna fail, you want that to happen while it can still be returned and before it can corrupt all ur data ...plus its the fun part lol

This was intense

What did CWWK say about the heatsink touching the capacitors? Also when I ordered the purple board they said I should use Samsung or SK Hynix RAM. I already have 32GB of crucial so hoping it’s not a compatibility issue. Still waiting on delivery 😅

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Yes your data is not valuable. Please risk it on questionable motherboards.

I got mine a couple weeks ago, and it already came with BIOS 1.01 It's a nice little box but the temperatures seems a bit high to me. Do you think that repasting (using ptm7950) could improve things?

Were you able to get different board or a refund from them? I thinking about buying a Mini PC from CWWK and now I'm concerned about their customer support in case something's wrong with it.

Why not go with AMD B550 or X570 with a 5600 CPU and a $30 GPU for your NAS? You could save money and get the same performance in running hard drives and networking, but you can also use ECC RAM with AMD. No need for the latest generation for a NAS computer.

Does the N100 BIOS supports IBECC? There are some N100 boards (like the LattePanda mu) that already supports it.

Thanks, gonna use this to upgrade my Hermit Nas to a new Shell LOL

It would be interesting to see 3dmark results at 12w and 15w

What PSU is that in the video please? Do you know what PSUs are supported by the case?

Worked great as well on my DS224+ with a USB2.5G Adapter, thank you!

Hi! does it have LPDDR5 or normal DDR5? I guess they're single channel?

Glad I stayed till the end to see the Ubuntu test. These PCs are worthless to me if I can't wipe W11 and install Linux, so great to know.

Thanks for the in-depth review. My usb3.0 WD mypassport 4tb HDD doesn't require external power when plugged to my Pi5. Will it work with the G5? Does the G5 supply the same level or more of power to USB ports? Maybe using a 65w usbc brick would supply enough to the usb ports? what do you think?

Hi! with the original power adapter, do you think can the g5 power a portable usb3 hdd ? please note the same hdd is powered fine by the pi5. ( western digital my passport usb3 4tb )

Nice! I got mine G5 without SSD from Taobao for $107!

Very helpful video, but for those watching on a small screen the command is "netboot_default" - underscore between the two words, no quotes :)

Awesome follow-up video! I am ordering this little G5 box now.

Just makes you realise how powerful and efficient the SOC is in the Steam Deck as that only runs on 15w and gets significantly better gaming performance than any of these systems.

awesome review. you even included nvme test. Great! one thing, if you can talk slower, that's even better!

In your description you said the motherboard has x4 pcie slot. The first video card (Nvidia 710) graphics card is a x1 pcie video card and only requires 1 pcie lane. The msi video card is a x16 video card which requires 16x pcie lanes to work. The NVME adapter also looks like a x16 device which would require 16 pciei lanes to work. The LSI is a x8 device and requires 8 pcie lanes to work.

Just waiting on the same N100 board to put into my old ReadyNAS Pro case which has been gutted and waiting. Had to hack the backplane for new SATA headers. + new PS and new fans. It'll be strictly a backup target.

these boards take alot of power in idle, i got n100 based mini pc, and in idle its just 4 wats

Been messing about with options for upgrading my plex &media server, currently use windows 10 and Microsoft storage spaces on a 12 year old machine, got a new build done and after messing about with everything from unRAID to TrueNas to Proxmox to TrueNAS within Proxmox and where thy all have their advantages, Unraid seemed to be the one IU got on with the best.... its just $249 for a full licence which made me pause tbh. So went back to windows (windows server 2022 this time instead of windows 10 or 11) and whilst looking how I can improve on efficiency of storage spaces using PowerShell I happened across this video and it convinced me to give snapraid and stablebit drivepool a go. So far so good! Thanks for such an informative video!

thx bro😊

I was concerned about Total Writes, but THIS is very bad - in fact I have a PC that hasn't been on for a couple years that has a PNY SSD in it (however I think I only put the swap file on it - so that isn't too dangerous.)

Your review is amazing, I have never seen such a detailed SSD review. I have a question for you. I currently have a 1TB 870 Evo, but the space is not enough, so I wanted to buy a 2TB SSD. However, the 870 Evo is very expensive, and I saw the Acer SA100 for $82 in my country. The 2TB 870 Evo is $186, which is a significant price difference. I will only use this SSD for storing games. Will this cause me serious problems in the future? A slight performance drop is not an issue for me; I don't expect 870 Evo performance, but I saw on some forum sites that the controller is problematic.

I don't know if this is only for my PC. But last week I updated the BIOS of the G5. And I just noticed that my Windows is not activated anymore, with error code 0xC004F211, hardware has changed. I already contacted GMKtec support and waiting for their reply, they're usually very helpfull. Did you notice this too?

Thank you for this video. Was actually just playing through shadow of the tomb raider, but couldn't manage to get adequate frame rates. After this bios update it becomes just about playable.

Good to see that the update made some discernible difference.

One follow-on note here - you can still do hardware transcoding on windows, but you won't get proper tone mapping. I don't think that would have stopped you from transcoding on windows, it would have probably just caused the image to look washed out. There is a slim chance that I'm wrong about this, and that attempting to hw transcode 4K HDR content on windows would fallback to the software transcoder, but I don't believe so.

26:52 - I had to pause the video and look at the frames because you scrolled by the playback info pretty quickly, but I noted that in your 4k=>1080p transcode test you weren't using the iGPU in the N100 to handle the transcode. If you're using hardware transcoding, then Plex will show "(hw)" after the transcoding information. For sure this CPU isn't powerful enough to handle 4K software transcodes, but the iGPU should be powerful enough to handle a 4k transcode - probably a few of them.

how you increase vram . i have got 512 mb in amd ryzen 5 5625u

After the update my windows got deactivated and could not be reactivated with the included oem license, what's your experience ?

Nice update. I'm still testing but my focus is on Retro Gaming and this thing has exceeded my expectations. I'm running my fan @ 100% and maybe I have a good fan as, noise is not an issue here. (Or my tolerance is greater perhaps) I don't have a meter (other than using a phone app) to test however. Again, just want to mention how fast this thing cools when CPU load is stopped and the 105c MAX temp Intel state for the N97. When i'm all done, I will probably make a video..

cool

Perhaps the issue with that SSD USB adapter is that the USB port used wouldn't deliver enough power consistently to the SSD. I've had issues with NVME SSD USB adapters in this way in the past and usually using a powered hub would solve the issue.

i shucked a Seagate Expansion 14tb and got an Exos 2x14 Mach.2 inside. I was quite surprised, to say the least.

in the type C power adapter cable is there only 2 cables? positive and negative cable? I'm asking because let's say if the original Power Adapter became faulty, I can just buy a normal power adapter and join the original type c cable and normal power adapter together by cutting off half the original cable- as a replacement.