A Look Inside

You have to deal with several screws to fully tear down the NAS, but the whole procedure is straightforward. To access the M.2 slots is much easier.


The barebone chassis.


The mainboard is small, and a heatsink covers the CPU. There is no active cooling for the latter. Finally, the solder side of the mainboard only has few parts installed. The second, empty, RAM slot is also there.


A 4 GB DDR SO-DIMM is installed into one of the RAM slots.


The mainboard uses a Macronix MX25L12872F flash memory IC.


The battery keeping the mainboard's BIOS settings intact.


The 2.5 Gbit Ethernet controllers are a pair of Realtek RTL8125BG.


The SuperIO IC is an IT8625E.


The board's eMMC is a Samsung KLM8G1GETF with a capacity of 8 GB.


Parts of the mainboard's power phases.


An 24C08 Serial CMOS EEPROM.


The SATA expansion card for the two drives this NAS supports.


The board holding all M.2 slots.


The cooling fan is by Apistek (12 V, 0.6 A). It measures 70 mm across, and its model number is SA74B2H. It uses a double ball-bearing and it is of high quality.