Is there any chance that Bee-link will eventually simply host all relevant BIOS update files on their site in an easily reachable way? vs. the odd URL shortener links I tend to see in the forum that all point back to the site dr.bee-link.cn?
That is, you seem to have sections of this new bbs.bee-link.com website (which replaced forum.bee-link.com) setup for SOME of your product lines (e.g., SER Series Driver and BIOS download). However, you do not have one for the ME Mini. And for anyone who buys PCs that simply wants to see if their unit has the latest BIOS installed or not, they typically visit the vendor site and can easily find the latest available BIOS firmware files there.
On this site, however, you all seem to ask for folks to take screenshots and send them to you vs. simply hosting the latest BIOS firmware. This seems odd, as you create more work for both yourselves and your customers by doing this. Why not simply ask what version they have? Or better yet, host the latest firmware in an open space reachable by your customers?
And when you do provide a link, it goes to a different site altogether, which adds another issue. For example, I have tried clicking some of those links in these forums, figuring maybe the main page on the site will show all the BIOS images. But for some reason, I am unable to reach the dr.bee-link.cn site. This makes it rather difficult to get any BIOS update that way.
Currently I am dealing with the same issue that many others are with regard to the ME Mini. That is, I bought an ME Mini this summer (12GB RAM, 2TB SSD version) and added 5xCrucial P310 4TB PCIe Gen4 2280 NVMe M.2 SSDs. I installed TrueNAS on the 2TB SSD included with the Mini (following the directions not to use the MMC for that) and setup a RAID1Z pool on it.
However, soon after I began having issues of SSDs disconnecting. It would cause the ZFS pool to degrade, and at one point I simply wiped out my setup and started over. I opened the unit, reseated all the cards, and started again.
At first that seemed to have helped. But the truth is, while I installed TrueNAS again, I did NOT create a pool. I simply let the unit run idly for awhile. And yet now again it is showing these issues.
The most common thing I see is this error:
CRITICAL
Device: /dev/nvme0n1, failed to read NVMe SMART/Health Information.
Going online, I find references to various folks having problems with the Beelink ME Mini when fully populated with SSDs. It is an extensive list of folks having problems, but here are just a few references:
The key thing appears to revolve around the power supply, or more specifically, the 3.3V line, being underpowered.
I don’t know whether this is a hardware design failure or something which can be resolved through a BIOS update and/or adjustments to the settings. But the entire reason I am here is to find that out. I landed on this particular thread as it involves someone asking for the latest recommended BIOS update for the ME Mini.
[Side note: This is not my first Beelink. I own and run a SER7 and an S12Pro, both of which I thoroughly enjoy using.]
I was REALLY looking forward to using this ME Mini as a low power alternative NAS in my home setup (vs. my current Synology). But until now, I have not been able to even get things going long enough to build a dataset and truly work on it. And just the issues I have been having make me have trust issues with this unit. That disappoints me, as I really want to be able to trust and use this. So any and all help you can provide around this would be appreciated.
