THE XCUBENAS XN3004R INTERIOR

To access the interior of the XCubeNAS XN3004R you will first have to remove the side rail parts as seen above.

Almost all of the interior is taken by the mainboard, the PSU and of course the 4 drive bays.

The 200W PSU is manufactured by AC Bell.

A large silver heatsink is placed just over the dual-core Intel Atom CPU.

Our sample arrived with a single 4GB LPDDR3 1600MHz SO-DIMM by TLA.

The USB 2.0 8GB DOM flash module is manufactured by Innodisk.

On the board we also see the Lattice non-volatile PLD (programmable logic device), Marvell 88SE9235 SATA 6Gb/s host controller, Nuvoton voltage and temperature monitoring chip and the M.2 slot.

We tried using the M.2 slot with both M.2 SATA and M.2 NVMe SSDs without luck and after contacting QSAN we learned that this slot has only been certified for use with the Samsung SM951 (AHCI version) SSD so do keep that in mind if you intend on using it.

With 4 Seagate IronWolf 12TB drives installed we can now begin our tests of the XCubeNAS XN3004R.