I had to turn on the legacy mode in the BIOS boot options. It took me a few minutes to get the NUCbox 2 to boot from the USB drive. Unraid is a simple jack of all trades NAS/Server/VM OS. Unraid’s docker integration is simple and makes it easy to spin up servers. I am proposing using the NucBox2 as a mini home server and I really like Unraid so I gave it a shot. I tested it out in the living room first but Windows is just not living room friendly. This box had been reviewed quite a bit already so I decided to take a different angle. Additionally, I run a VM directly off the Samsung 850 as a work VM and it is absolutely fine. The 960 is passed directly through to the VM so should be full speed. On the left is a spinning rust HD I installed in the GMK. Netac vs Samsung 960 Evo HD on GMK vs Samsung 850 Evo in my system I am not sure the difference would even be noticed. 4k reads are better and writes are similar. Not too bad vs my aging 960 EVO on the right. Below on the left is the installed Netac CrystalDiskMark benchmark. I did change the performance mode to turbo. I was a bit overwhelmed with the settings in the BIOS. I installed a 1tb hard driveĬooling is capable and not loud. GMK NucBox2 Teardown You can install a hard drive in the bottom for additional storage. Processor – Intel Core i5-8259U 4-core/8-thread Coffee Lake processor.A quick Google search shows an 8GB stick is about $50 and I would highly recommend this upgrade. I think they are doing this mini PC a disservice using memory in single-channel mode. The NucBox2 only had one 8 GB stick of memory and I had an extra stick laying around so I installed it to get dual-channel support. I don’t anticipate a superfast SSD to come with the NucBox2 but we will see. What stood out to me was the M.2 4x NVMe slot. I would call the NucBox2 its older, bigger, more capable brother. GMK’s first foray looks to be the NucBox, a super tiny mini pc.

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