Intel NUC 10 NUC10I5FNHN Frost Canyon Mini Computer 10th Gen Core i5-10210U, 4 Cores, 8 Threads, 6MB Smart Cache, Iris Xe Graphics (NUC10I5FNHN 16GB+512GB)

The unit is smaller than I expected which is good. Initially it won’t enter the boot menu when F10 was pressed. Took me several trials to get it enter the boot menu but I don’t know if this was an isolated case or not. Once the Roon core is installed, it has run without any problem.

Upgraded these bad boys to its full 64GB ram supported and added 1x SATA SSD + 1x NVMe. They boot off using a USB stick with VMware so I can leverage the full SSD + NVMe drives for the storage database.

Couldn’t be any happier! High quality product received as expected. Excellent customer service by ProTech 365. They are super responsive and incredibly accommodating. Thank you!!

Unit booted one time and then failed to boot up or even POST (Post On Self Test). Amazon could not provide a replacement so I am waiting on a refund. After I receive the refund I will likely repurchase due to Amazon having this item in stock even though Amazon could not send a replacement.

I needed a mini PC to run Kbuntu Linux and this unit fit the bill. It is mostly for applications and a bit of light gaming. I have 2 x Samsung 32GB DDR4 2666MHz SODIMMS, a Sabrent 2TB Rocket NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 Internal SSD and a Samsung SSD 860 EVO 2TB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD installed. All is working well so far. Note this is the 3rd NUC I have purchased and I really like them.

The full-sized SD card slot is non-functionally intermittent. I would have rather they stayed with the microSD slot.

I bought this NUC to run audio software called Roon. It is working perfectly. It was easy to assemble and configure. It runs cool.

II have a normal sized desktop for years with several virtual machines, but realized recently that I need a smaller one for mobility, after searching for several options, I picked up this one, and purchased a 32GB RAM and a 500G PCIe SSD, added another 2.5 SATA SSD. now have Ubuntu20.04 as the base OS and couple of Windows 10 and Linux VM running as the KVM guests. it works great, so far no compliant. The only thing is it can only install two SSDs, But is okay with me for now. If anyone wants more storage, probably need to invest and buy big storage with this box.

This NUC is an approximately lateral upgrade from an AMD FX-8370-based system in terms of CPU, yet uses only a fraction of the power. Its tremendously quieter than a mid-tower with several fans, and uses (relative to my old case) only1.4% of the volume of the mid-tower case I had. This is small enough to set on my monitors base for easy access to I/O. If I had no needs for that, Id look into using the VESA mount instead.

Roon music server was successful, but modification of the bios to refactor boot was tough work like as maze.