Thats a cool unit. pretty rad it includes an unraid license. unraid 7 is around the corner and it will bring a lot of improvements to a system like this. it makes sense to choose unraid as its easier to compete with synology, qnap and asustor. Something like trunas or OMV would be too much for most nas buyers.
Thank you for going into the hardware details. I have several use cases to explore with my LincStation N1. DVR to use with a HDHomenrun over the air TV receiver, desktop & laptop computer backup, syslog storage for my home lab, customer full disk backup before troubleshooting, download surveillance system video, to name a few.
I got one of these today based on your review. I've been looking at one for a while. Thanks for letting us know about the internal drive and 11. I don't plan on running UnRaid on it. It was a little wonky getting 11 installed. It doesn't seem to like any wired keyboard/mice and is picky about which wireless ones it likes.
The formfactor reminds me a lot of my 1st dedicated network attached media player, the WD TV Live Hub! To be honest that's exactly the same use case I would deploy something like this for. The additional functionality would simply be bonuses that I may or may not even use.
Interesting device at a slightly lower cost than the Asustor Flashstor 6 but I'd love to see one of these little devices with a CPU that had enough PCIE lanes to handle 10GbE (or even better 25/40). For some use cases I can see a market with it's small form factor and low power use though and for that market the Unraid license makes sense. A little bigger with better cooling wouldn't be a bad thing for a N2 though.
I received one today. When I read the online instructions, saw an interestingly bizarre notice. They say: About User Data Privacy Data security and privacy are the cornerstone of LincStation products. We do not read the contents of user-uploaded backup files without the user's permission, nor do we provide any user information to third parties, except as required by law. For more details, please refer to the service agreement and privacy policy. So, it seems they are collecting user data? I think I'll return this tomorrow. How it can be a private thing if they can access my data whenever they want?
Is it a NAS... or is it really a living room media device that they forgot to put the media playing software on? It's certainly styled well to put next to your TV.
Its branded with unRAID that doesn't seem to have a native way to have media playing on its HDMI out, and doesn't have a could like interface to use. I think it could work pretty well for this usecase though with a different OS.
@ElectronicWizardry, Can you make a video explaining the usefulness/uselessness of NVMe generation for NVMe selection. It is a very confusing topic at least to me. It seems that NVMe generations is a bigger mess than USB generations: 1) They say it is let say NVMe 2.0, but it appears that it is up to the manufacturer to implement standard's features, f.i., namespaces. NM790 2) Exactly, same drive may have different NVMe revisions. F.i., 4TB Lexar® NM790 is NVMe 2.0, smaller capacities are 1.4. Why? I believe it can be an interesting topic for the video.
From my first glance NVMe revisions don't really matter for most users, and are kinda hidden in the specs. I'll look into it some more and work on some video ideas.
Thats a good point. Unraid 7 makes ZFS a good amount better it seems, but not out yet. Thats a good point about trim on the main array. The unraid array also fills the drives one by one by default which isn't the best for SSD write performance. I think SSDs should do fine without trim in a limited write workload, but kinda annoying thats not supported.
Thats a cool unit. pretty rad it includes an unraid license. unraid 7 is around the corner and it will bring a lot of improvements to a system like this. it makes sense to choose unraid as its easier to compete with synology, qnap and asustor. Something like trunas or OMV would be too much for most nas buyers.
Thank you for going into the hardware details. I have several use cases to explore with my LincStation N1. DVR to use with a HDHomenrun over the air TV receiver, desktop & laptop computer backup, syslog storage for my home lab, customer full disk backup before troubleshooting, download surveillance system video, to name a few.
I got one of these today based on your review. I've been looking at one for a while. Thanks for letting us know about the internal drive and 11. I don't plan on running UnRaid on it. It was a little wonky getting 11 installed. It doesn't seem to like any wired keyboard/mice and is picky about which wireless ones it likes.
That's some odd Windows 11 install issues. I don't remember running into them, but I might have re-used a drive with 11 on it already.
The formfactor reminds me a lot of my 1st dedicated network attached media player, the WD TV Live Hub! To be honest that's exactly the same use case I would deploy something like this for. The additional functionality would simply be bonuses that I may or may not even use.
If you take the USB out, you are able to install other OS on the integrated 128 GB storage. Tested my system with TrueNAS Scale and it worked fine.
Interesting device at a slightly lower cost than the Asustor Flashstor 6 but I'd love to see one of these little devices with a CPU that had enough PCIE lanes to handle 10GbE (or even better 25/40). For some use cases I can see a market with it's small form factor and low power use though and for that market the Unraid license makes sense. A little bigger with better cooling wouldn't be a bad thing for a N2 though.
I received one today. When I read the online instructions, saw an interestingly bizarre notice. They say:
About User Data Privacy
Data security and privacy are the cornerstone of LincStation products. We do not read the contents of user-uploaded backup files without the user's permission, nor do we provide any user information to third parties, except as required by law. For more details, please refer to the service agreement and privacy policy.
So, it seems they are collecting user data? I think I'll return this tomorrow. How it can be a private thing if they can access my data whenever they want?
Is it a NAS... or is it really a living room media device that they forgot to put the media playing software on?
It's certainly styled well to put next to your TV.
Its branded with unRAID that doesn't seem to have a native way to have media playing on its HDMI out, and doesn't have a could like interface to use. I think it could work pretty well for this usecase though with a different OS.
Good stuff as always
Amazingly small for much data. Thats a bit hot, my synology test machine runs in a room that is 100+ during summer (ATX-3770 i7).
@ElectronicWizardry, Can you make a video explaining the usefulness/uselessness of NVMe generation for NVMe selection. It is a very confusing topic at least to me. It seems that NVMe generations is a bigger mess than USB generations:
1) They say it is let say NVMe 2.0, but it appears that it is up to the manufacturer to implement standard's features, f.i., namespaces. NM790
2) Exactly, same drive may have different NVMe revisions. F.i., 4TB Lexar® NM790 is NVMe 2.0, smaller capacities are 1.4. Why?
I believe it can be an interesting topic for the video.
From my first glance NVMe revisions don't really matter for most users, and are kinda hidden in the specs. I'll look into it some more and work on some video ideas.
which version of unraid is it? I take it isn't the lifetime one but just the lowest level one where you have to buy further updates after a year?
Hrm an nvme nas without 10gig to me makes no sense
whats the best way to use ssd on unraid? Array does not support trim while zfs seems not that robust (at least for now)
Thats a good point. Unraid 7 makes ZFS a good amount better it seems, but not out yet. Thats a good point about trim on the main array. The unraid array also fills the drives one by one by default which isn't the best for SSD write performance. I think SSDs should do fine without trim in a limited write workload, but kinda annoying thats not supported.
So Brian Eno has a RUclips channel? 😂