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Thoughts and feelings on AOOSTAR WTR PRO AMD Ryzen 7 5825u hardware? (aoostar.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’m looking to replace a 2013 Mac Mini running Proxmox. Just curious if anyone has one of these or anyone heard of any negatives about them? Watched a bunch of videos and outside of a lack of 10G Ethernet, it seems to be well received!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Depends on what you need it for. If it's just a NAS with a few containers, more than enough. I've not heard anything bad about the brand, and I know more than a few people with them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Good call and good to hear you’ve not heard anything bad about the brand. Going to use it as a NAS, few VMs (Debian with Docker and NixOS dev env) and a Plex LXC (might move to Docker), but I aim to move my PiHole to it and want to try more distros in test environments. Biggest reason for an upgrade is the potential to transcode more content, the Mini struggles (fine on Direct Play) and also the NIC is flakey so it’s using a USB adapter right now. I probably borked it replacing the HDD with a SSD, it was a nightmare to open. Not sure if I’m ready to pull the trigger, but if my hardware died, I’d maybe go this route!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Looking through some of the notes there, some things to consider:

Win11 is pre installed (probably baked into the price)
Drive bays are note hot swappable
It's Ryzen 7, so definitely not a low power device

The biggest question mark there is kernel driver compatibility if you're running a Linux distro. I'd check around. There are also other vendors with similar form factors and price that DO have hot swappable drives. Maybe something to consider.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks for the heads up...

I would go with no RAM and no SSD, install something I buy myself
Noticed that and it was brought up in a video, is it critical for a home server to have hot swappable drives?
I'm sure the Mac Mini is probably using over 15W right now, but I don't know for certain. Any good ways to test outside of buying some hardware?

Most of the videos I've seen online are using Proxmox which is my goal. Just trying to decide if $400 before tax without any memory or storage is a good deal or if I should just build a box.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Critical...technically no. Shutting down your NAS, putting in a replacement, and waiting for the disk array to come back online is trade-off.

Nothing wrong with building a box. You probably won't be able to build something in this form factor and features though.

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