You'd need a lot of rope to go full bondage on everyone and everything at a modern port as they have to be huge in order to handle modern cargo ships. I applaud your enthusiasm in the face of such a challenge.
Why is the M.2 slot limited to 512GB? Is that because there aren't any 1GB drives in the 2242 size, or because they dropped in some sort of UEFI restriction?
It's nice to see Linux support confirmed from ECS right away. Less consideration for adding additional storage, the 32GB model seems more of a candidate for Linux than Windows given its smaller footprint on storage.
If Plex (or any other software that wants specific hardware) use is critical to what you want to do, don't get something it doesn't support at the time you purchase.
I think the selection of the M.2-2242 SSD interface is a marketing boo boo. They should have selected M.2-2280 instead for immediate access to 1 TB SSD's. Given he anticipated ramp of 3d NAND fabs, high capacity SSD prices should fall during this product's lifespan. Given the NUC like size, it is hard to imagine why they could not come up with the extra 38mm.
I would hypothesize board surface area limitations. This thing is fanless so more surface area might have to be allocated around the CPU for the cooling system.
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Meteor2 - Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - link
Why might you want two Ethernet ports?nathanddrews - Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - link
pfSense router or other homebrew network appliance.The real question is... HDMI 2.0?
evanrich - Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - link
hdmi 2.0a.There fixed that for you
rm19 - Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - link
I think reviewers should always mention the version of HDMI especially when 4K anything is involved.Meteor2 - Wednesday, November 16, 2016 - link
Yes!Namisecond - Saturday, November 19, 2016 - link
Now if only the OEMs can be convinced to use anything other than the RTL-8111x series of NICs...evanrich - Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - link
VLAN for media only, and dedicated internet port. Why? because I can :)evanrich - Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - link
or port bonding.BrokenCrayons - Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - link
You'd need a lot of rope to go full bondage on everyone and everything at a modern port as they have to be huge in order to handle modern cargo ships. I applaud your enthusiasm in the face of such a challenge.CaedenV - Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - link
*slow clap*evanrich - Thursday, November 17, 2016 - link
802.3ad LACP port bonding...smart assMr Perfect - Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - link
Why is the M.2 slot limited to 512GB? Is that because there aren't any 1GB drives in the 2242 size, or because they dropped in some sort of UEFI restriction?Arnulf - Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - link
The former.Mr Perfect - Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - link
That's not so bad then. Presumably some time in the future we'll get higher capacity 2242 drives. I wonder why they bothered listing a limitation?BrokenCrayons - Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - link
It's nice to see Linux support confirmed from ECS right away. Less consideration for adding additional storage, the 32GB model seems more of a candidate for Linux than Windows given its smaller footprint on storage.Xajel - Wednesday, November 16, 2016 - link
Cool, Just add external 4 bay enclosure and you you got a semi DIY NAS, these two gigabit ethernet better support teaming...Sadly I don't think the CPU is good enough to serve also as Plex server..
Meteor2 - Wednesday, November 16, 2016 - link
If Plex makes use of the hardware encode/decode it would. Anyone know if Plex does?evanrich - Thursday, November 17, 2016 - link
dont think it doesNamisecond - Saturday, November 19, 2016 - link
If Plex (or any other software that wants specific hardware) use is critical to what you want to do, don't get something it doesn't support at the time you purchase.dealcorn - Wednesday, November 16, 2016 - link
I think the selection of the M.2-2242 SSD interface is a marketing boo boo. They should have selected M.2-2280 instead for immediate access to 1 TB SSD's. Given he anticipated ramp of 3d NAND fabs, high capacity SSD prices should fall during this product's lifespan. Given the NUC like size, it is hard to imagine why they could not come up with the extra 38mm.Namisecond - Saturday, November 19, 2016 - link
I would hypothesize board surface area limitations. This thing is fanless so more surface area might have to be allocated around the CPU for the cooling system.