N100 Industrial Motherboard NAS 4 Cores 4 Threads Low Power Processor 4x2.5G i226 Network M.2 Slot 6xSATA DP HDMI 2.0 PCIE ×1 .1*M2_ SSD NVME/NGFF+ 1*M.2_ NVME

Minimal packaging. The manufacturer is BKHD. Once I was able to looking up the documentation that was missing from the package, installation went smoothly. I’m using a Jonsbo N2 box and this board didn’t work with most of its front connectors unfortunately.

Purchased this for a pfSense build. As advertised, the board is populated with 4 discreet Intel V226 NIC's. Added 8Gb of DDR5 RAM and a 128Gb NVME SSD. Used 150w PICO PSU. Board booted 1st time no problems. pfSense installed with no issues and recognized the intel NIC's immediately. Installation and setup (including bridging 3 of the NIC's for LAN and setup OpenVPN for remote) took approx 2 hours. NOTE: I must point out that this board comes with absolutely no documentation; online searches came up with zero as well. While most of the headers are labeled on the board, the chassis header for Power sw. and LED's have no polarity indicated so connection is trial and error. That being said,, if you are comfortable with building PC's and willing to take some time this is an excellent choice for a NAS or Router build

A compact and reliable motherboard. I purchased this board because I needed a reliable and compact motherboard for my Unraid server which runs 24/7. What I really like about it is the number of SATA slots and the two NVME ports for SSDs or to add even more SATA ports. It has been running always on since August 2025 with no problems.

The motherboard works as stated, I haven't done any benchmarking on the SATA ports but they appear to all function together reasonably well. The main issue I have with this is that the chipset doesn't really have any way to control the fans, if there is one it definitely doesn't work on Linux. But, it's the only N100 motherboard I could find in this price range with that many SATA ports and with regular power supply ports so it fits the bill.

This board can be had on AliExpress for a bit cheaper, but if you need it in a hurry this is a good spot. I am using this to host a full *arr stack, webservers, download clients, etc. with 48TB of attached HDD storage managed with mergerfs. Just note that the M2 slot closest to the processor is NVME and the other is just SATA, so use the closest slot for whatever needs the speed advantage. For me, that's a working/scratch drive for nzbget processes. Manufacturer is BKHD if you need to research it. I re-pasted the heatsink out of habit when I received it. Does hardware transcoding with QuickSync in Jellyfin really well. Can't think of a better board. I have a USB PCIEx1 card on it to provide an internal USB3.0 header for my case + 2x C and 4x A ports on the back. Seemed to be picky with RAM, I have a 16GB GSKILL ripjaws stick installed. Some people suggest that you can have more RAM than that, but I use this for a ton of docker-based applications on Debian 12 and my RAM usage never exceeds 50%. Good board.