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Lincstation N1 UnRAID SSD NAS – SHOULD YOU BACK THIS?
Lincstation N1 UnRAID SSD NAS – SHOULD YOU BACK THIS?
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The Lincplus Lincstation N1 NAS Review
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update the indiegogo campaign for this device is now live (here https://indiegogo.com/projects/lincstation-world-s-1st-unraid-6-bay-all-ssd-nas#/ ), so any further questions/feedback on this might be better shared and heard over there in the discussion section. They have two tiers live, one of which is even cheaper (which I find kinda mad, giving the margins for profit here… but ok….), so take a look.
I just gotta mention that you actually could plug in a USB-C to 2,5Gb Ethernet dongle so you end up with 2 ports. It will look stupid, but anyway.. Probably not gonna be able to aggregate those two though.
Well… having it shipped with an Unraid licence is a bit rich knowing they still don't support Trim on JBOD setup with SSDs… (unless you start using ZFS and for that… the CPU is far too slow and there is not enough RAM) – as for the 2.5Gbit/s limitation… to be honest, only 4 cores wouldn't be sufficient to sustain 10G connectivity if the system has o also deal with normal workload…. Which means using a full SSD NAS (a cheap one) is meant to be a compact, low consumption, low maintenance and silent NAS. Which I have been looking for a long time 😉
Another great review mate, but that single ethernet port makes the SSDs just a gimmick. I was searching for a good replacement for my old dual hdd Synology NAS and I found a great vfm solution that you should also check it out. I bought the Tbao R3 mini pc with dual bay drive support, (Ryzen 5500U,16Gb,512GB NVME,2.5Gx2, Vega 7 iGPU). Furthermore, I have also purchased an Unraid license, set it up, and this little thingy blew my mind. Jellyfin is working perfect, and it can also use the AMD iGPU for video transcoding without any issues.
Thanks for this video. I just backed it. I’d didn’t want to pay almost $500 for the asustor. This price is incredible.
Excellent videos👍
This Linkstation N1's aggressive pricing will be appealing to those who were holding back on getting the comparable Asustor Flashstor, which also has Celeron N5105.
My rule of thumb: If it sounds too good to be true, then . . .
Kindest regards, friends and neighbours.
"Low power consuming device" and never mentions a single WATT figure that it actually idles…
This looks like an ad. Such a weird hardware with unraid, it's hard to think any use-case for this.
Yeah… No. Its not for me.
Great review. The current processor offers roughly the same performance as the 12-year old Intel Core i5-2500 (Sandy Bridge). The Alder Lake-N chips only support single channel memory .. so better performances but some limitations. A better choice could be AMD Ryzen V1500B (Synology choice for 2023 models)
Indiegogo sucks. I supported around 10 campaigns in the past. Ommicharge, Packed Pixels, Incharge 6, Infinity Cable were the only one that I've received and last campaign that I did was over 2 years ago, so as you can guess I wont recieve the rest of them. Packed Pixels screens took almost 2 years to receive. Those that I receive were not realy good discounts as they claim. For example, Omnicharge Ultimate charger was "on sale early bird" for $369 + Shipping and TAX which was total over $400. It was supposed to be a price of $599 but when retail price dropped, it sold for $399 on Amazon and free shipping. So exactly what I paid and waited a year for. Not woth it. Most of campaigns i never received. Be careful guys.
What was the power consumption at the wall?
OK, so on one hand you complain about the 2.5 Gbit NIC saying it will nerf the SSD performance as they will saturate the NIC at something like 250 MB/s. Next you complain about the M.2 NVMe slots running at PCIe Gen3 x1 again nerfing the SSDs to something like 700 MBs. Now I agree that is still unbalanced, but giving more than one PCIe lane to each NVMe drive would be serious overkill as it is already nerfed by the NIC.
Another point is that this is a $280 device, and you are complaining about it not having a 10Gb NIC? It's entry an level, not enterprise level NAS. You suggest it's use for portable storage when travelling. Few portable computers will have more than a 2.5Gb NIC, and you're not likely to use more than one or two at a time when travelling. Besides it seems most notebook users today breaks out in hives the moment you even mention cabled networking.
Finally with the CPU used there's simply not enough PCIe lanes to go about to create advanced fast networking and splurge on multiple lanes for the M.2 slots. So that means they need a more expensive and faster processor, upping the cost a good deal.
TANSTAAFL!
In my opinion they've made decent choices not this particular machine. But it would have worked almost as well with SATA SSD's, so that's something to remember. NVMe and M.2 is nice and compact, but in this case it doesn't really give a massive improvement over SATA SSD's. Rebuilds will be faster, but that's about it. SATA SSDs are still cheaper per GB and there are less thermal issues with them.
9:35 "it rocks out the gate with 16 gig memory with a price point of ($)279 which by the way with a quadcore Intel and being a six bay based system makes it more than half the price of all of these with the same hardware"
So is the Linkstation more than half the price, or are you trying to say that it's cheaper than half the price of the other products you are pointing at?
I think their next attempt will be interesting. They will learn a lot from this one and hopefully act on what they learn
It’s almost exactly what I want. But as everyone has said, the 2.5gbe is a dropped pie.
I think its an an odd choice to put two SATA drives in the system when extra ssd drives could have been added.
If I had the capability to design this is very close to what I would do.
Thanks NAScompares for clarfying the SATA drive height. I don't think that Lincplus even knows the limitations. Their FAQ's now lists the SATA size as 9.5mm so even less. On their discussions page the project manager claims 20TB as its max using six 4TB drives with one as "Backup" (parity) which is impossible. It's more like a 12TB NAS using NVME w/parity or 16TB using 2TB SATAs in addition. They claim it should work with 8TB NVME drives but haven't confirmed it.
I pulled the trigger on it. It’s my first NAS. 2.5gb will be plenty for me. I can understand some criticism, but I can’t find much comparable in this price range.
As you highlighted – too many areas where the product does not go far enough . . .
Final product delivery and price unknown
im NOT backing one more thing.. first Dune Case went to shite.. now Storxa seems to be fcked… Crowdfunding sux big time.
Could you make a video on how the software works and how to back up to Mac as Time Machine and photos from phone etc … it will be helpful
After the Dune PC Case disaster I will not sign up for Indiegogo campaigns again. When it became more than clear that Dune could not deliver IGG was useless. It appears they even released funds to the CEO after backers alerted IGG to the issues. While there is no indication that this campaign is fraudulent the protection IGG provides seems to be a lot weaker than with KickStarter.
2.5 Gbps with even one SSD is ludicrous, but 10 Gbps wouldn't be much better against a RAID of SSDs.
Going to be my first nas)