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Home server converts old Zotac MAGNUS gaming PC into six-drive NAS
A hobbyist repurposed an aging Zotac MAGNUS EN1070K mini-PC, originally a media-center rig, into a home NAS to escape cloud storage nagging from Google and other providers. The build uses a 3D-printed enclosure extension, a six-bay ICY Dock drive cage, a Pico PSU powered off the machine's original brick, and an ASM1166 SATA adapter in the M.2 slot to support six drives alongside a 1 TB boot SSD.
AOOSTAR's WTR Pro NAS mini-PC runs FreeBSD, review finds solid hardware fit
A hands-on reviewer tested the AOOSTAR WTR Pro Ryzen NAS as a compact host for FreeBSD, checking build quality, storage layout and BIOS settings. The metal chassis fits a 10-inch rack, offers numbered NVMe and SATA slots for four SATA drives plus internal NVMe storage, and ships with SecureBoot disabled, easing installation of a non-proprietary OS. The reviewer noted a noisy fan and some fiddliness mounting 2.5-inch SATA drives, but otherwise found the unit well suited to running FreeBSD rather than a vendor-locked NAS OS.
Amazon cuts price of UGREEN's DXP480T Plus all-flash NAS to $849.99
Amazon has discounted UGREEN's DXP480T Plus network-attached storage unit by $150, bringing its price down to $849.99. The device uses all-flash storage rather than spinning hard drives, positioning it for faster data transfers and quieter operation.
Ugreen unveils HomeAgent smart home platform with local AI hub and Uliya voice assistant
Ugreen, best known for chargers and NAS storage devices, debuted its HomeAgent smart home system at IFA, combining camera storage, on-device AI processing, and home automation controlled by a new voice assistant called Uliya. The flagship MasterAgent MA100 hub doubles as a NAS device and smart home brain, using an Nvidia Jetson Thor T5000 chip capable of up to 2,070 TFLOPS of AI performance, with three hub tiers available.
Anker launches MindBase, a smart home hub with on-device AI and NAS storage
Anker introduced MindBase, a device positioned as a central controller for connected homes, combining Matter compatibility with local AI processing and built-in network-attached storage. The product aims to manage smart home devices while also handling data storage and AI tasks directly on the hardware rather than relying solely on the cloud.
Homelab troubleshooting traces 10GbE slowdown to Intel E610 driver's default receive buffers
A homelab operator upgrading to a UniFi UNAS Pro 8, an Intel E610-XT2 10GbE card, and a Minisforum MS-01 miniPC found file transfers crawling at 100-200 Mbps despite all hardware reporting a full 10 gigabit link. After ruling out the NAS, its RAID array, SSD caching, Immich, SMB signing, and Windows Defender, an iperf3 test isolated the problem to networking between the desktop and the MS-01, revealing nearly a million discarded received packets on the Intel adapter. The root cause turned out to be the E610 driver defaulting to 512 receive buffers instead of its supported maximum of 4096.
User troubleshoots Synology-to-UniFi UNAS Pro 8 NAS migration with Robocopy
A longtime Synology NAS owner attempted to transfer files to a new Ubiquiti UniFi UNAS Pro 8 over a 10-gigabit network, expecting the SMB file copy to be routine. Windows Explorer failed partway through with file system limitation errors, prompting a switch to Robocopy, which stalled at 92% with error 665 on certain files, including one called '05 Wires.m4p'. The user traced part of the slowdown to Robocopy's restartable /Z mode, a feature they had relied on since 2007 but which now dramatically hurt transfer speed.