Set up a mini PC with one some months ago as a home media box (with Kodi on Lubuntu) in my living room, which also works as a NAS and Torrent client over always on VPN.
CPU usage tends to be below 10% and you almost never hear the fan on the box turn on.
All this on a machine with a TDP of 15W.
I’d say the N100 is massivelly overpowered to be used just as a NAS.
Well, you definitelly have “room for growth” with it, especially if you don’t care about the fan running (i.e. sustained loads above 20% or so) which in my case and since the thing is in my living room I would rather not have (especially since Mini-Pcs tend to have smaller fans which have to rotate faster hence are more noisy).
Same here.
Set up a mini PC with one some months ago as a home media box (with Kodi on Lubuntu) in my living room, which also works as a NAS and Torrent client over always on VPN.
CPU usage tends to be below 10% and you almost never hear the fan on the box turn on.
All this on a machine with a TDP of 15W.
I’d say the N100 is massivelly overpowered to be used just as a NAS.
I’ll run some other stuff on it too, like Jellyfin.
Well, you definitelly have “room for growth” with it, especially if you don’t care about the fan running (i.e. sustained loads above 20% or so) which in my case and since the thing is in my living room I would rather not have (especially since Mini-Pcs tend to have smaller fans which have to rotate faster hence are more noisy).