October 8, 2025Oct 8 Hi all,I'm a happy Unraid user and it is currently running on a Dell mini PC. I found this nice new mini PC that can host up to 6 NVME M.2 drives and I wanted to use this to replace my Dell. So I ordered it and received it. Created new USB with Unraid and started playing around. Very soon I found out that the device seems unstable and it loses one (or) more drives from a pool. So I contacted Beelink support and they had no other solution than to replace the device. Today I received the replacement device and I encounter the same issues unfortunately. What happens? When I create a new pool and add all 6 drives, as soon as I start it leaves 2 drives as unassigned. It does not matter if I create 1 ZFS pool with 1 or 2 ZFS vdev's result is the same.If I create 2 pools of 3 disks with zfs, it creates with no problem. Any help or guidance would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance!Sorry if there might be related topic, I searched but could not find anything.
October 8, 2025Oct 8 Community Expert Those devices have a known issue with power limits, you may get away with it with some lower power NVMe devices, see here for more info:https://forums.truenas.com/t/using-beelink-me-mini-with-6-nvme-drives-only-4-are-useable-in-truenas-scale/47306
October 9, 2025Oct 9 Author @trurl Here you are: Beelink | Beelink ME mini 6-slot Home Storage NAS Mini PC@JorgeB I think it might be a bug. When I create ZFS mirror pool with all 6 drives, all drives stay in the pool and device seems OK after some time.....
October 9, 2025Oct 9 Community Expert Post the diagnostics after trying to create a pool with the failing config.
October 10, 2025Oct 10 This may not be of much assistance to you, but anyway may help running Unraid on the Beelink Mini ME. Unfortunately I've seen more than one other report where people experience problems similar to yours. An underpowered PSU is often suggested as the culprit. It's 45 watts I believe.I'm running Unraid on 2 Beelink Mini ME's both stocked with 6 x Lexar NM790 4TB ssd's. I'm using XFS and no parity.They've been running for a couple of months without issue. I can run a read test from the main tab where all 6 disks are being read concurrently at about 600/3600 MB/s. Also without issue. According to Unraid each ssd draws 6 watts, though dedicated tests online show them to draw considerably less and be very power efficient.Best of luck with finding a solution.Edit: details and language Edited October 10, 2025Oct 10 by helgrimm
October 10, 2025Oct 10 Author After some inconsistent testing and trying I was able to: Create mirrored ZFS pool and later even 6 disk ZFS pool with 2 vdev's. Now the fun part: In the main tab, it shows all 6 devices in the pool. If I click the pool, under zfs pool status it shows state degraded and one disk from the raidz-1 vdev shows removed. Is not giving me a confident feeling on setup and config.Just asking; what would be best config for such device? Use less disks? use all disks but in different setup or config? Use Array over pool? Any tips, tricks or hints to make best use of this device are welcome. Edited October 10, 2025Oct 10 by Tonee
October 10, 2025Oct 10 Community Expert 45 minutes ago, Tonee said:Just asking; what would be best config for such device? Use less disks?If it's the power issue as linked, use fewer devices or a specific brand/model that uses less power; there are some examples in the linked thread above.
October 11, 2025Oct 11 Author @JorgeB Thanks. Will look for some other devices. I had the others already and would have been great to (re) use these.
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