CWWK NAS Motherboard 8 Bay Core i5 8265U 4C/8T

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Hi, ive been looking at the abouve motherboard CWWK NAS Motherboard 8 Bay Core i5 8265U 4C/8T on amazon, cant fnd much info or any reviews on it, have you heard of it, tried it etc? currently using an old 2 core 2 thread cpu with trurnas as nas base, so this board would be a big rump in power and storage if its any good, if you could let me know that be fab.
keep the nas videos coming

gareth bailey

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That CWWK i5 8265U NAS board pops up a lot lately, and on paper it looks tempting because you get eight SATA ports and a low power Intel chip, but it is still very much in the grey market DIY category. CWWK boards work, but consistency is their biggest weakness, and users often report things like unstable SATA backplanes, odd BIOS behaviour, poor thermals and missing documentation. The i5 8265U itself is fine for Jellyfin direct play and Immich indexing, but it has no hardware transcoding block for 4K remote streams and it will struggle under heavier loads compared to something like an N5105, R1600 or a modern Celeron Plus series. At around £200 the value is good, but reliability with TrueNAS depends heavily on how clean the SATA signal paths are, and CWWK has been hit and miss on that part across their batches. If your current NAS is really at its limit and you want a safe step up, I would lean toward something like an Asustor AS5404T or AS6704T v2 which gives you proper SATA backplanes, Intel hardware transcoding, four bays and good Docker support while still being friendly on power. For DIY builds, Minisforum boards or older Dell/HP SFF desktops often outperform CWWK with far fewer issues.

Here are the Amazon links for the mentioned models:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Asustor+AS540...=ncmail-20
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Asustor+AS670...=ncmail-20