Beelink Mini S13 Mini PC,13th Intel Twin Lake-N150 (up to 3.6GHz, Upgraded N100), 16GB DDR4 500GB M.2 SSD, Mini Desktop Computer Support 4K Dual Display/USB 3.2/WiFi 6/BT 5.2 for HTPC/Office/Business

So far awesome for a file server
It’s amazing how cheap these mini PCs have become. I bought this to replace a 10-yr old Intel i5 NUC that I’ve been using as an always-on file server. The NUC was still working but was starting to act up at times, and feeling pretty slow. This thing cost less than half as much as that one did, is even smaller, twice as fast, uses less power and after spending the evening getting everything set up, I never even heard the fan (the old one would get noisy even when just running background tasks sometimes).Don’t necessarily expect this to last as long as my last one did given that was an Intel product, but so far very happy.For those interested, I run this with Windows and a 4-bay QNAP RAID 1 USB enclosure to store/host my main file storage. This is shared on my local network and mounted as a network drive on my main PC (which is quite power-hungry so I only turn on when I use it). By having my important files (mainly family pictures/videos) on an always-on PC, I can have them back up to the Cloud without having to worry about keeping my main PC on long enough for the upload to finish. And by running Windows instead of Linux, I can back up my full 8TB (and growing) of personal data to Backblaze Personal for $7/mo (which they only offer to Windows/Mac users with direct-attached storage). Windows may not be the typical choice for a file server, but this is the least expensive and easiest way to back up this much data to the cloud that I’ve found. I also run SyncBack to maintain a local backup to a second external HDD. It took me all of a couple hours to get everything set up and migrated over to this from the NUC and so far it’s working great.

Great Inexpensive Mini PC
I purchased this with the intention of using it as my new Home Assistant server to keep on the basement shelf with all my other home Internet gear. I was impressed by its small size, relatively low power consumption and how feature-loaded it came.Given that this mini PC came with Windows 11 Professional (even withthis low price! ), I diverted this box to my desk for a while to play with it a bit. The Windows build was a bit older, so I ended up testing an in-place upgrade to 24H2, which took about a half hour to complete. Most other activities I ran on this box were at a decent speed for a box of this nature.Since this was going to be my first venture into Home Assistant, I opted to first set this up inside a Hyper-V VM, which started off well, but as I started cramming more components into HA, I realized I was running out of RAM to hold both Windows itself and the VM. I ended up swapping out the 8 GB RAM module for a 16 GB stick I picked up on Amazon as well, and that left me in good shape. Eventually, I got comfortable enough with HA to go beyond the proof of concept stage and wiped the SSD drive and loaded it with a native install of HAOS.While the M.2 SSD interface supports NVMe drives as well, the included drive was only a SATA SSD. I used a Sabrent enclosure that supported both standards to load HAOS on the drive. Had I stuck with the original 8 GB of RAM, I would have been perfectly fine with it, as Home Assistant is currently reporting that it’s only using about 1.1 GB out of the 15 GB it sees now.This Mini PC was a perfect choice for my intended use, with good apparent quality and speed for my purposes. Given that I’m not running it too hard and that it’s housed in the basement, cooling has not been an issue. Based on my experience here, I would not hesitate to recommend it for a similar use or the need for a small computer in the future.

The size of the mini PC is so perfect that I can hide it behind my monitor which makes my monitor a “all in one PC”. This is enough powerful for my needs. Recommended.

Works great, I recommend