Qnap nano

The range of products that Qnap has unveiled also includes an embedded board with 8th gen Intel CPUs, the Qnap NANO-ULT5 supporting Celeron processors and Intel Core i3, i5 and i7. In addition, another expansion board oriented to servers with LGA 1151 socket has been presented .

Qnap NANO-ULT5 with Intel 8th generation

It is basically a motherboard that can offer all the functionality of a miniPC or rather, an embedded PC. It is oriented to a multitude of applications, for example, stand PCs or based on control panels, hospitals and monitoring systems, factor computers and production chains, etc.

Its specifications may vary depending on the model, although all of them will offer a CPU soldered directly to the motherboard, which may be an Intel Celeron or even an 8th generation Intel Core i3, i5 and i7. In addition to this, it has two SO-DIMM slots that support 32 GB of DDR4 RAM.

As for storage, it has M.2 PCIe type M-Key slots for SSDs and also two SATA 6 Gbps ports for SSD and HDD of 2.5 and 3.5 inches. The connectivity it offers is also quite interesting and a bit of everything, with several USB 3.1 Gen2, HDMI, eMMC 5.1, audio jack and a COM port.

SPCIE-C246-R11 Expansion Board with LGA 1151 Socket

Now we are facing a clearly server-oriented expansion board with a quadruple PCIe interface for its connection.

This impressive board features an Intel LGA 1151 socket compatible with 8th generation Intel Xeon E3, Intel Core i3, i5 and i7 processors, Intel Celeron and Intel Pentium Gold. In addition, we have 4 DDR4 DIMM slots with capacity for 64 GB of RAM at 2666 MHz.

In the internal area we can install an M.2 M-Key 2280 drive under PCIe 3.0 x4, and up to 6 SATA drives at 6 Gbps, supporting RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10. If we look at the PCB, we have an internal DisplayPort port, various headers for expansion ports and even one of them for USB 3.1 Gen1 Type-C and another Type-A. The outer panel has two RJ-45 Ethernet ports and several USB.

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These types of boards are for a very specific use, for the expansion of servers and multi-CPU production equipment, so, from the point of view of a normal user, it is not of great importance either.