Mini S12

Im comfortable with windows so I recently set up my Plex server on a Beelink S12 pro with windows 11. Frankly, it just works. No need for research, trouble-shooting or anything. Also got Plex pass and hw transcoding again, just works. Tested locally with an LG TV app, remotely on my android phone an

Although I do have a Beelink S12 pro for about 15 months now and it works flawlessly, the general "feel," one gets when reading on Reddit is that all these ( any brand, not Beelink in particular) mini pcs are not famous for their longevity ( fingers crossed for mine ). If you are after longevity I t

I don't have any experience with the hailo chips, but I built a dedicated Frigate box with an N100 mini PC. I used a Beelink S12 pro w/16GB RAM and added a 4TB 2.5" SATA 870 EVO SSD. I think the newer ones are dual m.2 and don't do 2.5" SATA anymore, but I could be wrong there. It works very well fo

You’ve moved “off-grid in the middle of nowhere,” yet somehow the largest drain on your power system is a machine idling between episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine because silence makes you confront your own thoughts for twelve seconds. The good news: yes, the Xbox is absurd overkill for this. You are c

I have a basement NOC with more enterprise gear then I should and yet.. my Plex and JellyFin servers run on a cheap N100 BeeLink S12 Pro with 16GB ram and Debian Linux. It’s a 10 minute install. Transcoding is great. Multiple 4K, 1080P and audio no issues. Yes, plex runs better under Debian. Use the

Helped a couple of others with a similar issue, finding that the reinstallation of Windows presented asimilar experience. In these instances, the MINI S12/S13 had a defect, returned or exchanged. From the "Think Critically. G👀gle Competently" perspective, if this was a Beelink MINI/Ubuntu issue, the

i'd look at nextcloud for the drive replacement and immich for phone photos - both do exactly what you want. remote access is easy with tailscale or a reverse proxy. for hardware a beelink or minisforum mini pc would crush this. i set up a Beelink Mini S12 for a buddy and his whole family uses nextc

Check out mini pcs or small factor pcs. As an example Im happily running a Beelink S12 pro with an N100 cpu and its been running almost 24/7 for 16 months now. Running Plex and works like a charm

Ram has more than tripled in costs over the past 2 years.. some I purchased 2 years ago have so gone from $180 to $900 bucks. It’s insane. Storage has also risen sharply. So NOT expect this to change or prices to drop back down. That’s NOT going to happen. AI is here to stay and the rich and corpora

For what it's worth, if you care about potentially buying the same mini PC a few months from now (to add a new node with the same spec, or replacing your current one in case of issue), Beelink is not the way to go. I bought a few S13 Pro (N150 based, 16GB, 2 NVMe slots and two 2.5Gbps NICs) in June