N100 Industrial Motherboard NAS 4 Cores 4 Threads Low Power Processor 4x2.5G i226 Network M.2 Slot 6xSATA DP HDMI 2.0 PCIE ×1 .1*M2_ SSD NVME/NGFF+ 1*M.2_ NVME

Purchased this for a pfSense build. As advertised, the board is populated with 4 discreet Intel V226 NIC's. Added 8Gb of DDR5 RAM and a 128Gb NVME SSD. Used 150w PICO PSU.Board booted 1st time no problems. pfSense installed with no issues and recognized the intel NIC's immediately. Installation and setup (including bridging 3 of the NIC's for LAN and setup OpenVPN for remote) took approx 2 hours.NOTE: I must point out that this board comes with absolutely no documentation; online searches came up with zero as well. While most of the headers are labeled on the board, the chassis header for Power sw. and LED's have no polarity indicated so connection is trial and error.That being said,, if you are comfortable with building PC's and willing to take some time this is an excellent choice for a NAS or Router build

This board can be had on AliExpress for a bit cheaper, but if you need it in a hurry this is a good spot. I am using this to host a full *arr stack, webservers, download clients, etc. with 48TB of attached HDD storage managed with mergerfs. Just note that the M2 slot closest to the processor is NVME and the other is just SATA, so use the closest slot for whatever needs the speed advantage. For me, that's a working/scratch drive for nzbget processes. Manufacturer is BKHD if you need to research it. I re-pasted the heatsink out of habit when I received it. Does hardware transcoding with QuickSync in Jellyfin really well. Can't think of a better board. I have a USB PCIEx1 card on it to provide an internal USB3.0 header for my case + 2x C and 4x A ports on the back. Seemed to be picky with RAM, I have a 16GB GSKILL ripjaws stick installed. Some people suggest that you can have more RAM than that, but I use this for a ton of docker-based applications on Debian 12 and my RAM usage never exceeds 50%. Good board.

Motherboard worked fine for my NAS build for a while, but after about 5 months, the system started unexpectedly rebooting. By 6 months, the system was rebooting daily.MemTest86 was reporting ram issues, that weren't present when ran the same tests at initial build time. I swapped RAM with another machine that I had around, and that stick was reporting RAM issues as well. Tested both stick in the other machine, and neither reported any issues.

I purchased this MB for a home NAS that operates 24/7. It has a much lower power draw than the older i5 desktop MB I was previously using, the 2.5Gbps networking ports are a great upgrade from Gigabit, and it has plenty of ports (SATA, NVME, USB) for expansion.The negatives are: only supports 16GB of memory (but this is a limitation of the low power CPU), the PCIe slot is only 1x, and when used as a NAS with many hard drives installed the boot time is very long because it spins up one drive at a time sequentially to reduce power spikes and there is no option in the BIOS to spin them up at once for faster boot. The lack of documentation may be an issue for some users, but most BIOS options are clear as are the MB markings.All in all, I am satisfied with the MB and it has been running my NAS now for over two weeks with no issues.

There’s no documentation but I still got it to work. I read the motherboard to figure out where to plug everything in and then turned it on and it’s running great. Using it as NAS controller for time machine backups locally and on cloud.

Yes, after major efforts of work around, got it to run win 10. Reason I chose this motherboard is I wanted the lower power speedy intel N100 in mini-itx board with 2.5GBE ethernet.No documentation, no user manual and this webpage product description claims it is "Platform Windows" but I say not quite...here are the win10 issues with the motherboard.....1. Very primitive BIOS that does not allow to boot from win10 usb installer, have to boot from preinstalled win10 SSD2. Cannot run win10 update via ethernet unless the driver is the latest intel network driver from USB drive3. no audio because Multimedia audio controller is unknown4. despite the fact it claimed 1*M2_ SSD NVME/NGFF+ 1*M.2_ NVME, I can't get any m2-ngff to be visible in bios or win10 in any m2 slotOther than the issues I listed above which I can live with, this N100 board is ok and fan is quiet

For the board manual goggle the "BKHD 1264 NAS MB".Great little board for DIY NAS project.I have installed 32GB DDR5 4800Mhz SODIMM ram module and validated it with memtest - it works flawlessly (despite what is stated in documentation). I have used HP X1 ram module, but I suspect it should work with other brands.

Ran proxmox for a few months before switching to unraid, both of which were easy to run with this motherboard but starting having more and more issues with the system becoming unresponsive and needing a hard reset. Ram test started blowing up, swapped out the modules but had the exact same issue. Tried to contact the manufacturer but they don't recognize or support purchases made through this Amazon reseller. For the price and expectations it did great when it worked, but all those savings have now been flushed.