Benjamin Start
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2024
I really wanted this to work... but don't feel the quality is there.
Leslie P Thomas
Reviewed in the United States on February 29, 2024
I bought this specifically for the PCIe edge connector since I work with PCIe devices that are not PCIe form factor. I found I can't connect any of development products I work with. But I see high quality PCIe cards do work as expected.Not sure what the issue is, but suspect it's related to the power or poor PCIe routing.Other then that everything else looks good. BIOS and booting was a little funky but thats not unusual.
Michael F.
Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2024
Running mine as mini server, been fun playing with this.
Billy Bob
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2024
We have purchased about five of these over the past year and we have had nothing but issues. These issue is the we ordered the most expensive computer they sell and the memory and the ram were not as advertised. These issue is ad said 32GB with 512 GB SSD we got a 8Gb with 120GB. False advertising and the color of the computers are also false in the you order a blue computer and we reviewed a black computer. Do not waste your money.
Amzn Customer
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2024
This took two days to get from China to clearing customs in Miami, and then spent three weeks bouncing around various parts of the United States until it got to me. I was about to give up on it, and mark it as lost, as the tracking didn't get updated until the day after it arrived for some reason.Once it got here however, I was very pleased with it. It comes in a well packaged box with plenty of foam to protect it (which I was worried about with the exposed part of the machines innards).Comes with a 5A power supply that's half the size of the unit. Underneath the tray inside the box are a pair of SATA cables. They pull power from the 4 pin connectors next to the SATA ports on the board. I haven't needed this, so didn't test it, but I suspect it'll work just fine if I ever decide to hook up extra SSDs to this.I installed Debian on this with no headaches at all. Everything was recognized, and once installed, it rebooted and boots up in a couple seconds. The included nvme drive isn't the fastest (I got ~750MB/s from it), but as this is just the boot drive, and isn't going to be used for IO intensive work, this is also fine for me.The first few times I rebooted, there was a really long beep from the internal speaker, but for unknown reasons, this stopped happening after a while. I went looking through the BIOS options to find a way to disable it, and didn't find anything, but maybe I inadvertantly changed something relevant.The I226V's both get recognized in Linux by the igc driver, and link at 2.5G. I got around 1.8Gbit/s from iperf3 between two 2.5G hosts connected to the same Ubiquiti 2.5G switch.Being completely passively cooled, the metal exterior does get warm, but not excessively so. There are screw-holes for fans if it was to ever get too hot while under load. I've yet to push this hard enough where that would be an issue. Idles at around 13 Watts.The 2032 battery just floating around is a little odd. It comes with a sticky backing, so you can stick it wherever you want, but there's no perfect place for it to just get it out the way (especially due to the long wire)Overall: Not bad for a small router/firewall box. I do worry a little about the exposed circuitry and dust. I guess I'll see how that fares over time.