Let us know how it works out.
Well I did take the plunge and after a bit of back and forth, I ended up with an M910X version of this NAS through Superbuy delivered to Alberta at roughly $500CAD:
market.m.taobao.com
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As it turns out, the machine appears to work as advertised (highly modded BIOS BTW) and is running an OS with no issues however, buyer beware.
I bought the V1 which used a 600g connection on the Wi-Fi key to the backplane of the drive cage.
-No RAM
-No NVMe or SSD
-i7-7700T
-4 port 2.5G nic
The seller contacted me after the initial build was decided and offered V2 at no extra cost which used one of the NVMe slots to connect to the drives in the cage. His reason was that the V1 build apparently had a conflict with the Realtek NIC. I said fine. Upon arrival and inspection I have to admit a bit of disappointment, the build quality and fitment is kind of awful. I did get the Realtek NIC, however, he did send a V1 machine which was fine with me as I prefer having two NVMe drives anyway and so far, no issues or conflict with the 2.5g nic. This one appears to be
https://www.amazon.ca/GLOTRENDS-RTL8125BG-PCI-Express-Bandwidth-Compatible/dp/B0BLN9VRZM with the fan removed although the seller did include it and the box the nic came in withthe package. I suspect the 'conflict' might have been the card length, this is the shortest 2.5g 4 port nic I've seen and there is plenty of clearance for the power module and the A+EE adapter in the Wi-Fi slot.
The lower mount point on the 3D printed drive cage is broken off, and instead the unit is held together with 2 screws that were drilled through the cover on either side. The front faceplate is broken off and as you can see in the picture that notes the removable memory/NVMe cover it was glued with some sort of black adhesive, it sticks out oddly in that if you have a USB-A connector like a small kingston data traveller with no plastic casing it will work fine, however, if you have a typical USB stick with a plastic casing, it won't fit far enough into the slot to make a connection. The bottom cover has a 2mm hand bent flange that I'll fix with a grinder, but in the process of bending it, it was warped. One of the cpu fan screws was missing, however, I noticed it was actually stuck to some glue on one of the pcb's for the drive cage.
NAS
Kind of odd if you ask me. Suberbuy took pic's but they didn't include either front nor back which I thought odd at the time. I thought they had a reputation for being meticulous but in this case, not so much.
Going to let Hyper-V whirl on it for a bit, but again if I could have only found the M600 cover literally anywhere, I would do my own mod for certain. a DIY from China I guess is again, buyer beware.
Okay I have a lightly used, unmolested M910X in my basement. Anyone know where I can get an M600 cover?
EDIT - Well added known working SSD's in the drive cages. not recognized at all. Boo... I'll remove the 4 port Realtek to see if indeed there is some sort of conflict.