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GMKtec NucBox G9

This Mini PC

is for those enthusiasts who think on NVMe only based NAS solutions for home.

Samsung 990 Pro 4TB with heatsink (without heatsink) inside GMKtec NucBox G9

4 PCIe3x2 NVMe M.2 slots, Intel N150, 12 GB soldered LPDDR5, 64GB soldered eMMC disk. That make it possible to put some linux on eMMC and use all 4 disk for network shared resources. Also Intel N150 (it is actually very close to N100 in all ways of comparision) able to decode for example AV1, HW encoding of h.264, h.265 including HDR. Not bad for 6W TDP proccessor that you might want to use with 15W power limits just to get more performance, since active cooling makes it possible. Also there is two dedicated fans for NVMe disks. Disks can be as cheap as possible (just a reliable brand and enough capacity), since PCIe3x2 is limited on about 1.7GB/s so there is no need for high speed PCIe4x4 or PCIe5x4.

GMKtec NucBox G9 Gen.4 NVMe in Gen.3x2 slot speed test

Internal eMMC speed is 200-300MB/s

GMKtec NucBox G9 eMMC speed

On wiki there are some benchmarks like table below

TrueNAS 4xNVMe Samsung 990 Pro on Intel 150 box speed test with different RAID and compression configuration

And also more images of what is inside GMKtec NucBox G9

Some Windows 11 benchmarks of NucBox G9

And Manual on how to install TrueNAS on G9 eMMC

Aliexpress: 180$ (or 186$)

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Devices SSD

Samsung SSD 840EVO 1TB

New 1TB SSD from Samsung. For mSATA. Very small.
Samsung SSD 840EVO mSATA
Speed test by CrystalDiskMark 3
Samsung SSD 840EVO mSATA 1 TB CrystalDiskMark 3
Speed test by CrystalDiskMark 4
Samsung SSD 840EVO mSATA 1 TB CrystalDiskMark 4

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Devices HDD SSD

Intel NUC D54250WYK

Introduction

Most annoying issue about my old PC was that it cannot playback 1080/60p and 4K video smoothly. Since 3D was not in use last couple of years I decide to switch from discrete graphics to internal. Also after some market investigation I decide to switch from classic desktops to nettop. So I was trying to buy nettop that will give me at least same computing power as previous PC but also gives me 4K and 1080/60p video playback. I chose Intel NUC Kit D54250WYK.

Intel NUC

Inside Intel NUC

Intel NUC inside

I did add 2x8GB DDR3 1600 and Crucial M500 480 GB mSATA drive and did some tests.

SSD Speed

Crucial M500 480GB

Windows 7 performance

windows_performance_chart

Passmark PerformanceTest v8

PassMark Rating

Also did some tests to compare with previous PC. Results in short: about same FPS in 3D, faster video playback (compressed 4K is OK), faster load, 90 times smaller (in volume), 20 times lighter, 10 times less power consumption, less noise. Details below:

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