The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/PulsedMedia on 2025-06-19 20:56:08.
These just passed CPU stress test and are fully functioning. This is the platform we have been developing over at PulsedMedia.com for a few years, but now we have been working with the 12x3.5" HDD + 2x mITX nodes instead of 8x mITX/1L MiniPC on 1 rack unit.
https://reddit.com/link/1lfltnf/video/5lkyfzs34y7f1/player
We share a lot of this process in other forums and in our discord.
I think we can stuff also 2x N100 w/ 4x M.2 NVMe in the same 1RU, but it's still untested, this is up next;
Stress Test Passed Today!
Temps remained slightly over 60C on ~20C ambient.
mPlate NAS Power Consumption From Wall;
Idle consumption is ~102W
Under load 130-137W
Config 2x N100 + 12x 3.5" 8TB 7200rpm + 16G DDR5 on each + 2x 500G NVMe + 2x2.5Gig Net connected + 2x USB stick (for rescue boot).
Comparison i5-6500t HP Prodesk Mini G3
From Wall; Idle consumption ~15W
Under load 43W
Note Double conversion, so efficiency is lower on this power delivery by estimated 10%. (edited)
We can probably even put a Ryzen 8C/16T on these for some added compute! Also the i3-n305 is more or less everything exactly the same.
Hope you enjoy the engineering, we are going to start sales soon(tm) with these units. These are part of our mini dedicated server series.
In our discord we (or ... I, the founder of Pulsed Media, Aleksi U) post development photos from the lab constantly and try to keep up with the background info too.
Personally i'm a long time datahoarder afficionado ... Well more like, enabling people to datahoard, not as much myself, but absolutely love making data hoarding solutions and think in €/TB terms constantly! Check our Storage Box offers for example.
Hope you enjoy the mad engineering from a Finnish garage (literally ...)! These are actual functional servers to be, the 8x mITX has been functioning really well for years and with passing these tests we don't expect surprises with 12x HDD versions neither.
Got 5x of these plates prepped for early sales already, expecting we will be producing a few each month.
Any question? Or just enjoy the mad engineering from cold nordic madlab? Ask me down, i'll try to answer ... well within a week or so... Midsummer in Finland right now.
(so wanted to tag this 18+ ...)