Affordable NAS dubbed X108 arrives with 3x Ethernet and up to 144 TB of storage

There are plenty of people with higher than normal storage requirements. For such folks, having a central system with a bunch of hard drives attached to their home network is often the correct way to go. This is where the XYC X108 NAS PC comes in, priced rather affordably while sporting a decent set of features.

Externally, the XYC X108 NAS system features a design that is hardly anything to phone home about, thanks to its generic design. However, the system does deliver the essential, packing eight drive bays (3.5" and 2.5", SATA 3.0) that can support up to a whopping 144 TB of storage. An M.2 2280 slot is also present, which can be equipped with an NVMe SSD to take care of the OS.

The NAS itself is powered by the pretty capable Intel N150 "Twin Lake" CPU, offering acceptable multi-threaded performance thanks to its 4-core, 4-thread setup. The processor is by no means a fast chip by modern standards, although it is found quite commonly in affordable mini PCs and NAS systems. A single memory slot is present, which can accommodate up to 32 GB of DDR5 RAM. Of course, ports and networking capabilities are essential for any NAS system. The XYC X108 features the following I/O:

• Single 10G, dual 2.5G Ethernet
• HDMI 2.0, DisplayPort 1.4
• Four USB 2.0 Type-A, single USB 3.0 Type-A
• USB Type-C (with DisplayPort and Power Delivery)

The system is already available for purchase on AliExpress, priced at $344.4 for the 8-bay variant without memory or storage. 4-bay and 6-bay variants are also on offer, priced at $220.5 and $266 as of this writing. A cheaper $143.5 variant with 4-bays and the comically slow 10-year old Celeron N2940 is also on offer, which offers roughly a quarter of the N150's multithreaded performance.