popular Posted by justye • 15h ago
Jun 19, 2025 2:59 AM
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popular Posted by justye • 15h ago
Jun 19, 2025 2:59 AM
KAMRUI Mini PC Intel N100 16GB DDR4 512GB SSD WINDOWS 11 PRO $109.65
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Having said that, if that video is the same box, then this thing is using super low components like some no name Aliexpress type SSD. I'm concerned it won't last long and you'd have to factor that into the cost. I'm curious if the more expensive models use better branded SSDs and RAM (like the cooler looking KAMRUI black box that goes for ~$140 on Amazon). If not, then I wouldn't want to spend that much on one of these. I'd rather get fully barebones models and source my own RAM and SSDs.
See this Reddit post [reddit.com] where people complain about the Wicgtyp brand SSD found in that teardown video.
NVMe is as cheap or cheaper than SATA in most cases. It's probably QLC and uncached, though.
On an N100, you won't notice the difference regardless.
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One thing to call out: This is refurbished - I didn't see that in the post.
Hold on...This has become an over hyped internet boogie man at this point. All that hoopla was around the early pre-2024 batches and was cleared up.
Honestly anyone who is using ANY BRAND of these CN mini PCs should not use them for banking or other mission critical needs.
Now as a media server with all of your "legal obtained backups" of music, movies, etc. I'm sure these are more than ok for that use case with a fresh wipe & install (which one should do for ANY PC you buy period).
I've read of such in these cheap mini-PC's, but BIOS malware is difficult to create & implement. But, if it allows the Trojan Horse to enter, then a state or criminal enterprise sponsored actor may have the resources to do it. Nevertheless, I haven't read any actual security oriented research to verify the rumors of unremovable malware. Got any links?
The SATA SSD were getting around 300-400 MB/sec, and the NVMe was a tad over 900MB/sec (Gen 3 x1 pcie). Furthermore the IOPS were more than double.
Of course for normal usage it doesn't matter but if you are using these for servers and you need performance out of your storage it can make a big difference.
Even in Windows 11 it was 2x faster (I tried for giggles before I put linux on them.
The great thing about these is 6W idle.
I agree 100% tho they USED to put NVMe in there a few years ago (and crucial) but I believe there was some embargo then they started using MIC devices.
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I picked up a similar one at a similar price and it did seem to be an NVMe drive but I wouldn't be at all surprised if it varied based on what ever was the cheapest option at the time. I wouldn't put it past these cheap systems to swap out parts from run to run if they don't specify exactly what it is in the specs. BT/Wifi is another case where I could easily see them going Intel or MediaTek or who ever they get cheapest at the time.
For setting up mine I went ahead and backed up the drivers and extracted the Windows Key to be safe. I tried to reset the machine but it Windows complained it couldn't do it so I made a boot USB key and did a clean reinstall. It also came partitioned to 2 250gb drives instead of a single 500gb partition so I deleted all the partitions and recreated a single partition when reinstalling.
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