Beelink ME Pro NAS Review : 2 SATA / 3 NVME - 72 TB Max !

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Beelink ME Pro NAS Review : 2 SATA / 3 NVME - 72 TB Max !

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Buy one on Amazon: https://lon.tv/ge14c (compensated affiliate link) - Beelink's ME Pro NAS is an Intel based network attached storage device that can run any Linux OS including TrueNAS, Unraid, etc. VIDEO INDEX: 00:00 - Intro 00:52 - Price and availability 01:00 - Price 01:09 - N95 vs N150 Version 01:38 - Memory 02:47 - NVME Slots 03:11 - Operating System Compatibility 03:42 - SATA Drives - No Hot Swapping 04:25 - System Noise 04:53 - Removeable Motherboard 05:20 - Thermal Performance 05:47 - Ports 06:45 - 5 Gig ethernet 07:20 - TDP and Power Supply 07:52 - Performance Demos / Unraid 08:34 - Power consumption 09:24 - Blackmagic Disk Speed Test at 5 Gigabit 10:49 - Plex Performance 12:12 - Conclusion Visit my Blog! https://blog.lon.tv Subscribe to my email lists! Weekly Breakdown of Posted Videos: - https://lon.tv/email Daily Email From My Blog Posts! https://lon.tv/digest See my second channel for supplementary content : http://lon.tv/extras Follow me on Amazon too! http://lon.tv/amazonshop Join the Facebook group to connect with me and other viewers! http://lon.tv/facebookgroup Visit the Lon.TV store to purchase some of my previously reviewed items! http://lon.tv/store Read more about my transparency and disclaimers: http://lon.tv/disclosures Want to chat with other fans of the channel? Visit our Facebook Group! http://lon.tv/facebookgroup, our Discord: http://lon.tv/discord and our Telegram channel at http://lon.tv/telegram ! Want to help the channel? Start a Member subscription or give a one time tip! http://lon.tv/support or contribute via Venmo! lon@lon.tv Follow me on Facebook! http://facebook.com/lonreviewstech Follow me on Twitter! http://twitter.com/lonseidman Catch my longer interviews and wrap-ups in audio form on my podcast! http://lon.tv/itunes http://lon.tv/stitcher or the feed at http://lon.tv/podcast/feed.xml We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.

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Intro

Hey everybody, it's Lon Simon. We've got another fun personal server to check out. This one is from Beink. This is their ME Pro and this looks like a mini PC, but it has three NVME slots here at the bottom. You can put four terabyte drives in there for a total of 12 terabytes. And then on the back here, you can pull off this panel and slide in two 3 and 1/2 in desktop size drives. And these can be 30 gigabytes each. So, you can go up to a total of 72 gigabytes of storage and you have a choice of an Intel N95 or N150 processor. And the one we're looking at today has the N95. We're going to dive deeper into this device and what it's all about in just a second. But I do want to let you know in the interest of full disclosure that Beck sent this to the channel free of charge. However, no other compensation was received. All of the opinions you're

Price and availability

about to hear are my own and they have not reviewed or approved what you're about to see before it was uploaded. So, let's get into it now and see what this device is all about. Now, the price

Price

point for this with the N95 processor is $369. There is an N150 version that costs $59.

N95 vs N150 Version

Now, the one they sent us is the entrylevel N95based device. There isn't much of a speed difference or performance difference between the N95 and the N150. The N150 is a little more efficient power-wise for the performance it delivers versus the N95, but for personal server use running Docker containers and whatnot, the differences I think are a bit negligible. But if you are serving a lot of Plex clients, perhaps the N150 will do a little bit

Memory

better. Now, the entry-level version, the one we have here, has 12 GB of RAM. If you are not a fan of soldered memory, don't watch any further because the RAM is soldered on the board. The N150 version does come with more memory, which is why it's that much more expensive. And that one has 16 gigabytes to the 12 on this one. But I will say, uh, I do run a server with 12 GB of soldered RAM. This is the other Beink uh, device we reviewed a couple of weeks ago, and it is my Plex server at the moment, and running Unrade here with a bunch of Docker containers, including Plex and two different DVR applications, the HD Home Run DVR and the channels app. I still have a good amount of memory left to play with, including having some other Docker containers also running. So, as you can see, my Docker container usage here is about 861 megabytes of memory. They're pretty efficient, and I still have about 9 gigabytes left to do other things. So, generally 12 gigs, if you're just running a personal server for the home and maybe a handful of other people, might be enough to get all of your applications running. And the entry price here isn't bad, especially if you have storage laying around. Now, the

NVME Slots

MVME drives go in at the bottom. What you have to do is uh take off the little Allen wrench holder here and unscrew the panel here. And when you do that, you can get access to those drives. I did that a little bit earlier here. So, you just pry off that panel and you can slide in a couple of more NVME SSDs. It will come with one. I believe the entry level one here came with a 512 gigabyte

Operating System Compatibility

drive. It did have Windows on it, but the drivers weren't installed properly, and I couldn't really get Windows working on this. So, this is really designed to put your own NAS operating system on, whether it's Unrade or Freen or one of the other ones that are out there. It also runs in Ubuntu and other versions of Linux quite well. So, you could have this work as a little Linux mini PC. I'm sure the Windows compatibility is there, but I was surprised to see that they had a version of Windows on the drive that just didn't really work well because none of the drivers were pre-installed. Now, they've

SATA Drives - No Hot Swapping

designed this to not be a hot swappable system. And what they want you to do is screw everything down, including the bottom panel here, but also the SATA drives. They do have the little Allen wrench here on the bottom, which I found to be very difficult to work with. All of the screws on this are going to fit this Allen wrench, but it's so hard to work with it because it's small and not all that sturdy. So, I am using a bit here on my screwdriver that is working with the Allen screws on this. Now, I do have the uh top drive here unscrewed at the moment so I can pull it out and show you how this comes together here. Um, so you can pull the drive out. They don't come out all that easily, so I often stick my screwdriver in between the ribbon here to give it some leverage to

System Noise

pull out. and they want you screwing the drives down into their cages here as well. These screws have a little gasket on them and that keeps the noise and vibration down. This thing is actually very quiet, surprisingly so, even with two desktop drives running inside of it. But, of course, the drives you choose will often dictate how much noise it makes, but I've got two red drives in here at the moment, and it's not very loud at all. In fact, this is probably one of the more quiet uh NAS devices that I have looked at. And one other

Removeable Motherboard

thing that's kind of neat about this is that the entire motherboard here at the bottom can be pulled out for maintenance. So what you can do is loosen up all four of those screws. And a little bit earlier I did that as well. And you can pull out the whole thing to clean it. And the NVME drives are on the bottom of that motherboard. So it's a very flexible system. Apparently they'll be offering replacement motherboards in the future as well and you can very easily get things out and keep them

Thermal Performance

clean. Now, the thermals on this perform quite well. My NVME drive, even when it was placed under load for an extended period of time, only saw like a six or seven degrees Celsius increase in temperature. So, it's doing a pretty good job keeping things at the bottom cool. Uh, the spinning drives have also been very cool as well. And they designed the drive sleds here to be all aluminum, and they do transfer heat to the case, and everything just gets dissipated out with very quiet fans.

Ports

Now, as far as ports are concerned, on the front here, you've got a 10 gigabit per second USBA port. That's good for attaching your external storage. Your rest of the ports are on the back on the motherboard here. So, you have a headphone microphone jack over here. This is a 10 gigabit per second USB type-C. This will do data devices, but also video out. And you've got an HDMI port here as well. So you can get two 4K60 displays out the back of this because it really is kind of a mini PC at the end of the day with more storage options. So if you are looking to run a desktop flavor of Linux and have it run some of your server applications, you can get the both the best of both worlds out of this device with good display output. These are two USBA ports that only run, unfortunately, at USB 2. 0 O speeds, so they're not going to be very useful for attaching storage and other peripherals, but I guess keyboards and mice and stuff will work fine on those ports if you are using this as a desktop. This is a 5 Gbit per second

5 Gig ethernet

Ethernet port. It's running with a Realtech RTL 8126 controller. I did attach it to my multi- gig network a little bit earlier when I was testing on the device, the desktop version, and we were getting about 4. 6 gigabits per second in both directions. That's about what I would expect out of a 5 GB port when you account for some of the overhead. So, great performance out of that port. You also get a second Ethernet port here. This is running at 2. 5 Gbits per second and it's an Intel i226V controller running on that. The power port is over here. This is running with

TDP and Power Supply

a 25 watt TDP on the uh N95 version. And apparently the N150 version is also running at a 25 watt TDP as well. So you should get very good performance out of these processors for doing server tasks. The power supply is this one a 100 watt power supply. It is unfortunately though a wall wart which can easily get knocked out of the wall. So would have liked to have seen something a little more robust that might prevent accidental disconnections. So just keep your cats and kids away from the power outlet. All

Performance Demos / Unraid

right, let's take a look at a couple of different scenarios now running this little device as a server. I have Unrade installed on this. Unrade is a commercial product, but I really like it quite a bit. I'm running it now uh for my media server here in the house. It has been flawless and stable and also very easy to work with Docker containers. It's one of the easier ways I think to get started doing home lab kind of activities. But there are other options out there. You could install a Linux desktop and use Docker with that. Uh you could of course also install TRNAS. I misspoke earlier and called it freeness. So, there are a lot of options out there, but Unrade is the one that I like quite a bit at the moment. I have installed a Plex server on this. So, we'll take a look at Plex serving in a

Power consumption

minute as well. And right now, sitting idle here with the disc spinning, I'm looking at about 33 watts of power consumption. So, similar to what you would get with a Synology or other NAS as it's sitting idle, when those drives spin down when everything is not active, I'm seeing about 18 to 20 watts or so. The max I've seen out of this thing when at full blast with drives going and the processor running was about 70 watts or so at the top end, but 30 watts here sitting idle with drives spinning is about what you could expect. If you don't install the uh spinning drives, of course, you might see a little less power consumption. Incredibly quiet here. Even with the drive spinning, I'm very impressed with that. So, why don't we take a look first at some throughput here. I do have my laptop connected at 10 gigabits per second to my network and we have the NAS here running at five.

Blackmagic Disk Speed Test at 5 Gigabit

All right, so here we've got the Blackmagic disc speed test running on my laptop. We are transferring essentially 5 gigabytes of data to the server and then we're reading it back. And as you can see, we're coming in around where you would expect with a 5 Gbit per second connection. So we're writing and reading about 400 to 500 megabytes per second. And of course, you may see some variations depending on the NVME that you are writing to. Inside of it right now is a Samsung drive that I'm writing to, an EVO drive. So there you go. You can see you could pretty much get the full uh 5 gigabit performance out of this when writing to solid state storage. Now earlier I did do some file transfers directly to the SATA drives to see how they performed. I was getting about 100 megabytes per second over the network for reads and writes on these WDE Reds. That's typically what I see in my Synology NAS devices as well. So, they're performing about where I would expect them to. And your mileage, of course, will vary based on the spinning media you have inside and how well they perform. Many NAS operating systems like Unrade use solid state caching to speed things up. So, in my case here, because I do have the cache enabled, I will see that full 5 gigabits per second, and in the background, Unrade will move things around to the spot that makes the most sense from a performance standpoint. But overall, it looks like we're getting the full throughput I would expect out of that 5 GB connection there. And of course, the drive connections on the

Plex Performance

device itself. And as far as media serving is concerned, we're running Plex right now and transcoding a 4K Blu-ray MKV file from 4K HDR to 720p and tone mapping it all through hardware. And in looking at the Plex control panel here, you can see we've got the HW next to our video here. And that indicates that we are decoding the video in hardware and then encoding it at 720p H. 264 also in hardware. And this is again on the N95 version. You can see our bandwidth here is pretty minimal because we're only pushing about 4 megabits per second for that stream. Our CPU utilization here is quite low because it is using the onboard hardware transcoder inside of that Intel chip. And we've got plenty of RAM available to do other transcodes, but also run other things on our server here. Now, Plex also supports the more efficient HEVC codec for transcoding, provided your Intel chip supports it. Both the N95 on this one and the N150 version. Both work with HEVC through Plex in hardware. So, right now, we're playing back that same movie, but now using HEVC for our output. And as you can see, we're getting the HWS on both. very minimal bandwidth as before and our CPU utilization even in the middle of an HEVC transcode is pretty minimal here with plenty of RAM available as well. So overall I'm pretty

Conclusion

happy with what Beink has put together here from a hardware perspective. This is probably the quietest NAS device I have looked at that has spinning hard drives inside of it. You will hear them spinning, of course, and some drives are louder than others, but with these two 4 TBTE drives in here, it is not making all that much noise at all. And of course, we've got the cooling fan running here at a low clip as well. It's got a bit of a wor to it, but it's nowhere near as loud as many of the other uh two drive NAS devices I've looked at in the past. So, they've done a very nice job with that, but you do have to take that little Allen wrench out to get your drives taken out. It's not very good for hot swapping and more uh rigorous kind of server activities, but for a home user, maybe serving yourself and a few other people, I think this is fine. Even the 12 gig N95 version should do pretty well for you. You will get a little better power efficiency with the N150. You might be able to turn its TDP down and get similar performance to the N95 here at 25 watts, but uh overall, I think the entry level is pretty good. If I had only uh one suggestion, it would be that the pro version of this, which is what this is called, should have four SATA bays versus two. And the reason is that in unrated at least, one of your drives has to be designated for parody. And it often has to be the largest drive. So if you put a 30 terbte SATA drive in here to get as much storage as you could possibly want, the second drive here for par needs to also be 30 terabytes, but it's not going to give you the storage for that. So with a 4 bay unit here, you could have added a little more SATA storage and still have the data protection that Unrade provides. But other than that, for a small home server, it is super quiet, performs quite well, and it's a nice little device if you've been looking to maybe get into Unrade or True NAS or one of the other NAS operating systems or maybe just run it as a Linux box. Again, Windows was a little flaky on it, but beyond that, uh, really nice, uh, piece of work here from Beink. That will do it for this one. Until next time, this is Lon Siden. Thanks for watching.

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