CWWK X86 P5 M.2 NVMe NAS Board Review

[Music] hello and welcome back and that is Right today I want to talk about something a little different yes it's a Naz but from a completely different direction this is the c wwk or Chang Wang and I am still I am not old enough to say without giggling cww K's x86 P5 this is I'm not going to call this a mini NZ I'm going to call this a micro NZ for those of you that have been trying to build your perfect DIY router using pfSense or open wrt or whatever chances are you've seen not dis similar systems like this but when you see it it's normally in some bigger outer casing and a lot of users who have liked what cwk and Topton and the like have done with nas motherboard again that Topton uh seller on board there the n65 ETC was really really popular want that same level of kind of open tinkering but with these little micro boards here and that's what this is It's kind of let's face it an x86 alternative to a Raspberry Pi but Nas style that is right 1 2 3 4 m.2 mvme slots there one giant heat sink there at the top and this system arrives with the Intel n100 CPU a quadcore four thread CPU with the 6 watt TDP reported behind it there it's a 8 to9 Lane CPU again little bit a gray area there on that one and this system when you get it without any storage on board without any memory inside you can pick out for about 150 quid and 150 quid for a 4 by m.2 mvme SSD Naz is pretty darn good so before we even get to what this system actually is what it can and can't do what exactly does 150 nicker actually get you we've already established it includes none of the storage it includes no memory inside what are you getting well that's the n100 model if you scale up to the 8 core I3 model the n305 if you want that without any Ram without any storage that knocks around for about 227 to 250 nicker so again still not breaking the bank but you do get your PSU this is a 35 W external PSU there using a standard plug there no USB type-c which really bummed me out but still nonetheless you also get cooler kits as this system which you've already worked out is the super DIY end of this kind of device so with this not only if you've got additional legs that can be used for mounting the device these legs are also used for mounting the fans either side of this device you've got different configurations of how you can set this up more so when we actually talk about the inside alongside that and those four m.2 mvme slots there the system also arrives with two of these this is and I'm going to put that down there before I drop it again this is a SATA power and data to 12 pin I would call that a zif cable but I know not everyone calls it that this allows you to not only attach on there have you got your 4 m.2 mvme 2280 length you can also add a couple of SATA drives there pretty darn impressive so again that's pretty much what you get there's an instruction manual and details on the warranty which are a number of you that are looking at products coming out of AliExpress and going to what warranty but returning to this system architect today in 100 CPU that we've seen on multiple other Naas devices uh so far in the last year year and a half that 6 wat TDP when we had the system fully populated with Kingston DC 1000b um uh M2 MVM inside during idle um it was exactly what you would expect about 10 to 11 Watts but when we got it up to active use we saw a variable rate there between 18 and 22 Watts why variable well because this system gets warm there's no avoiding that this system because it doesn't have by default any fans at all it's silent but it's heavily reliant on that base panel there to dissipate a lot of the heat moreover those 4 m.2 MVM there on the top there's nothing really facilitating the air flow yes you can put heat tinks on each of them that will draw the heat from the M2 MVM but it doesn't dissipate them into the air as quick as attaching a fan would do so attaching the fan to this system certainly ensures that the SS is Dro in temperature and overall the power consumption and the en energy to being stored inside to facilitate it is therefore a little bit more variable depending on your setup there now the memory slot inside is a sodum uh ddr5 slot there and it supports up to 32 gig of 4800 MHz memory non ECC that CPU there is not ECC supported but frankly for those of you that are going to talk about ECC in the comments one I see your point I mostly agree with you but also this is 150 quid what do you want jam on it um now moving forward from that if we talk a little bit about the m2s there um the BIOS which by the way is unfettered in the extreme all of it's there this thing is customizable as F at the BIOS level uh moving beyond that once we got unraid on this and dug down a little bit more into uh the lanes and more like that we found that each of those M2 MV me although they are 3 * 4 Hardware architecture they've all been unsurprisingly downgraded to 3 * 1 each that means each one of those M2 MVM it's got about 1,000 megabytes per second to play with there so each one of those um we went through uh on the terminal of UNR put some read and right test on there uh now with the read performance we got it around about 750 to 780 megabytes per second with 1 gig repeated sustain test files on each of them for read right we saw enormous diminishing r turns and we didn't know how much of that was to do with the temperature being raised on there but in terms of right we saw 590 dip down to 450 dip down to 350 dip down to about 200 to 250 megabytes per second I hate seagulls so in terms of performance on there read fine right this thing really struggled and talking of struggling when we tried to copy data between individual ssds we saw that performance number go even lower the performance we saw between transferring data in Bay 1 and Bay 2 went down to 100 to about 80 mbes per second which for M2 MVM is pretty darn poor but again how much of that was to do with oversaturation of the rather thick thinly spread out PCI Lanes on this is hard to say but the other thing that's worth highlighting that may be the cause of it is you know how there's four m.2 MVM here at the top well this is actually a sister board here underneath here this board this PCB that mounts all four of these actually connects to its own individual Gen 4 slot inside they're underneath those four bay at the top there is an M2 mvme gen 3 * 4 not restricted slot there all four of those are feeding into that single slot and chanes are that is a lot of back and forth to be handled by that process there for copying data back and forth uh within those drives which we saw earlier on it's a great you know flourish there in order to ensure that users can take advantage of more storage on a board that originally only had the single 1 M2 slot on it but nonetheless that is one of the main defining reasons why the performance particularly with right more than anything but especially when right in between the discs was so hampered there's also uh a little uh Wi-Fi adapter M2 connector in there that you can stick in a Wi-Fi 6 a Wi-Fi 6 even a Wi-Fi 7 little M2 inside there but of course without the antenna it's going to go nowhere so you're going to have to factor in the antenna coming off there and where they're going to live around this if you're going to go down that rout of mode rather than going down the nas mode again with the nas mode though don't forget those two little hard drive things hard drive adapters with the 12 pin adapter nice useful stuff now in terms of ports and connections we've got two USB 10 gig ports there we've also got two HDMI 4K 60 frames per second ports there and we've got ourselves 2 * 2.5 GB ethernet ports there so a decent amount of you know ports and connections for 150 nicker I'm not going to say they're breathtaking certainly not I've complained about nazes with not dis similar architecture to this but when I have complained about those is because they've arrived at 3 4 5 or even £600 for 150 nicker it's incredibly difficult to complain about that they even managed to squeeze in a physical power button there on the back for and connect to external PSU which damn I wish was a USB type-c but you can't have everything ultimately for 150 nicker it is incredibly difficult to criticize this without adding the caveat well what do you expect for the money now again you can already kind of get this already in other forms you can get this a much more pre-built forms we've seen lots of mini PCS rock out the gate recently that have got a l dissimilar Hardware architecture to this but what this brings to the table is flexibility customization those of you that want to build your own NAS from scratch the way you want it and for that I will give cww K all the credit in the world but this has been my review of the x86 P5 want to see more on this want to see more tests we got an iore Linked In the description hopefully that should be live by now we got into a lot more detail about our test that we performed and a lot more of the images about the inside and more on that so check that out we may do a follow-up video on this to something like Plex we've already explored Plex on the n100 CPU many many times before so we might not do that with this but if you've got a suggestion of what you want to see do let me know but apart from that thank you so much for watching there's links in the description if you want to get one for yourself and apart from that I will see you next time

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Length: 10min 1sec (601 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 28 2024