# Beelink ME Pro: Tiny NAS, Stacked Hardware

DevFeed: [Beelink ME Pro: Tiny NAS, Stacked Hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/beelink-me-pro-tiny-nas-stacked-hardware-10512.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://technotim.com/posts/beelink-me-pro/>)

Author: Techno Tim

Published: 2026-02-09T13:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Techno Tim](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/techno-tim.md>)

Topics: [Hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hardware.md>), [Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server.md>), [Containers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/containers.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/latency.md>)

Tags: [app](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/app.md>), [boot](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/boot.md>), [containers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/containers.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [ethernet](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ethernet.md>), [hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hardware.md>), [homelab](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/homelab.md>), [intel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/intel.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [mirror](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mirror.md>), [nas](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nas.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [plex](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/plex.md>), [servers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/servers.md>), [storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/storage.md>), [truenas](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/truenas.md>), [usb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/usb.md>)

## AI overview

A hands-on review of the Beelink ME Pro, a compact NAS-style mini PC with dual 2.5GbE and 5GbE networking, three NVMe slots, two SATA bays, and 12GB of LPDDR5 memory. The article describes a TrueNAS SCALE setup using mirrored SATA storage for bulk data and mirrored NVMe storage for apps and containers, with SMB transfer and Plex hardware-transcoding tests.

## Source excerpt

The sub-$400 NAS market is crowded right now. The Beelink ME Pro stood out to me because it's small, quiet, easy to work on, and it has a really nice mix of hardware for the money: 5GbE + 2.5GbE, three NVMe slots, two SATA bays, 12GB LPDDR5. In this video, I set it up the way I'd actually use it: bulk storage on SATA, fast NVMe for apps/containers, real SMB transfers, and a Plex hardware tran...