08-28-2025, 03:00 AM
hi there, big fan of your channel and reviews.
I have just found this NAS board and your review for CWWK M8 N150/N355. I am still relatively new to all of this and am learning along the way. I am really interested in using a Sparkle Intel Arc A310 ECO (https://www.sparkle.com.tw/en/A310-ECO) for Plex transcoding purposes but I am not sure if this will fit. The PCIE slot on the board looks quite a bit further in and I know that some smaller slots work on larger cards with a slight downgrade in performance but I am not sure on how that all works.
I'm very familiar with computers and have built many pc's in my time but I've never tried to build a NAS before while trying to juggle a good mix of cost to performance to power consumption. I am essentially thinking of building a low power nas with this GPU for plex and that is essentially it. I have an intel nuc that was decommed through work which I use for proxmox so dont need the nas to handle anything crazy because the nuc handles that.
I have just found this NAS board and your review for CWWK M8 N150/N355. I am still relatively new to all of this and am learning along the way. I am really interested in using a Sparkle Intel Arc A310 ECO (https://www.sparkle.com.tw/en/A310-ECO) for Plex transcoding purposes but I am not sure if this will fit. The PCIE slot on the board looks quite a bit further in and I know that some smaller slots work on larger cards with a slight downgrade in performance but I am not sure on how that all works.
I'm very familiar with computers and have built many pc's in my time but I've never tried to build a NAS before while trying to juggle a good mix of cost to performance to power consumption. I am essentially thinking of building a low power nas with this GPU for plex and that is essentially it. I have an intel nuc that was decommed through work which I use for proxmox so dont need the nas to handle anything crazy because the nuc handles that.