By KBC Associate 
Introduction and unboxing
This is our second run-in with Beelink’s mini PCs, and the formula hasn’t changed – Beelink makes portable and good-looking mini PCs with great specs for a reasonable price.
Today we’re looking at the Beelink ME Mini, a mini PC that’s equally suited for daily office tasks, as well as being your home (or work) Network Attached Storage (NAS) system for those precious memories (or important work data). It can even be used as a localized server solution.
Made in collaboration with Crucial, the ME mini pairs the popular Intel N150 processor with 12 GB of LPDDR5 RAM with an optional dual-storage solution – you have a built-in 64 GB eMMC and six M.2 SSD slots (with one filled by a 2 TB Crucial P3 Plus). This allows you to run a lightweight NAS system, such as FNOS, NRAID, or TrueNAS, on the eMMC and utilize the faster SSDs for data storage, for example.
The Beelink ME mini is available in Midnight Gray, Peacock Blue, and Pearl White. The mini PC ships in a box with a 100cm HDMI cable and an AC cable.
The ME Mini starts from $209 with a 64 GB eMMC and 12 GB of RAM and goes up to $329 if you add the 2 TB Crucial SSD (prices from Beelink’s website, but it’s also available on Amazon US). There will also be an option with a 4TB Crucial SSD in the near future.
Design and ports
The Beelink ME mini is a square mini PC that measures 99 mm on all sides and weighs just 750g.
It has an interesting design with Beelink’s logo at the top, surrounded by a dot pattern air vent with the words “Archive your moments” inscribed on the side in six different languages. There are six rubber feet on the bottom, alongside another air vent, and there are also vents on the left and right sides of the PC.
There’s a built-in fan at the top of the machine that sucks cool air from the top (and bottom) and expels the warm air from the sides. Beelink says it emits just 33dB when working at its average 1500 rpm speed.
There are plenty of ports on the ME Mini. Upfront is a 10 Gbps USB-C and another 10 Gbps USB-A 3.2. Around the back is the AC Power port (100- 240V), a USB-A 2.0 (with Always-On support), two LAN 2.5G (with an Intel i226-v controller) ports, and an HDMI-A port (with 4K @ 60Hz support).
Ports – USB-C, USB-A on the front, AC, USB-A, two LAN, and an HDMI out back
To open the Beelink ME Mini and gain access to its six M.2 SSD slots, you need to first remove the four rubber feet and the bottom and unscrew the four screws. You then lift off the plastic outer cover upwards, and you’re in.
Inside, you’ll see the top-mounted fan, the built-in 45W power supply, and the six M.2 SSD slots, labeled and with thermal pads installed. Five of the six are PCIe 3.0 X1, but slot number four is a faster X2 (that’s where the built-in Crucial SSD is).
The ME mini supports up to 4 TB SSDs per drive for a total of 24 TB of data. You can choose between 2230/2242/2280 M.2 type SSDs. The Intel N150 is based on the Intel Twin Lake architecture, which is more of a tweak of the old Alder Lake than a new setup. It’s based on Intel’s 7 lithography, meaning this is a 10nm processor.
Being physically identical to the N100, the N150 has four Efficiency-focused cores and four threads. The maximum Turbo clock speed is 3.6 GHz – up from 3.4 GHz – while the cache is the same 6 MB. On the GPU side, you get the same Intel Graphics with 24 compute units, but the peak clock has gone up from 750 MHz to 1000 MHz.
The N150 has a peak TDP of 25W (the typical TDP is 6W). We ran a myriad of tests on the machine, but the N150 is a well-known commodity in the industry at this point. Interestingly, despite using the same N150 as the Beelink EQ14 we tested late last year, the ME mini scored slightly lower in some tests. This could be down to the difference in RAM (the EQ14 has 16GB, the ME mini has 12GB).
For instance, in Geekbench 6, the Me mini scored 16% worse in the single-core and 40% worse in the multi-core test. It was the same in the Geekbench AI test. Passmark’s CPU evaluation of the N150 inside the ME mini was 14% worse than in the EQ14, while memory was predictably worse too, at 45% worse.
Performance and fan noise
The Beelink ME Mini uses Intel’s popular N150 processor. It’s the successor to the N100 and is a higher-clocked variant of that processor.
| Benchmark | Test | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Geekbench 6 | Single-Core | 1008 |
| Multi-Core | 1836 | |
| Geekbench AI (NPU) | Single Precision | 606 |
| Half Precision | 339 | |
| Quantized | 1082 | |
| Passmark | CPU | 5188.6 |
| 2D Graphics | 93.4 | |
| 3D Graphics | 590.0 | |
| Memory | 1376.0 | |
| Disk Mark | 13262.2 | |
| Overall | 1048.1 | |
| Blender 4.3.0 | Classroom | 5.05 |
| Blender 4.3.0 | Monster | 11.51 |
| Blender 4.3.0 | Junkshop | 5.91 |
| Cinebench R23 | Single-Core | 712 |
| Cinebench R23 | Multi-Core | 2554 |
| Cinebench 2024 | Single-Core | 39 |
| Cinebench 2024 | Multi-Core | 95 |
However, since the EQ14 came with a SATA III SSD, the ME mini’s PCIe 3.0 Crucial P3 Plus ran circles around it – it’s 70% better in Passmark. And indeed, while the 512GB unit inside the EQ14 offered a read speed of around 530 MB/s and write of around 525 MB/s, the Crucial P3 Plus in the ME mini offers 1,740 MB/s and 1,687 MB/s, respectively.
And that’s the main idea of the ME mini: it’s best suited for use as a home server or a NAS.
We ran a three-hour stress test on the ME mini. The processor quickly dropped its peak 3.6 GHz in favor of around 2.5 GHz. It seldom dipped down to around 500 MHz and back up to 2.2-2.5 GHz. The processor showed a reading of 65°, and the exterior of the PC was warm to the touch.
However, we can’t say we ever heard the fan spinning, even at arm’s length. We measured below 30 dB. This mini PC wouldn’t be a bother in most office or household environments.
Conclusion
As configured, the Beelink ME mini (12GB of RAM, 64GB eMMC, 2TB Crucial SSD) is $329 on Beelink’s website and $409 on Amazon US. However, Amazon US offers a $80 coupon, effectively matching Beelink’s own price.
Considering you get Windows 11 as part of the deal, we’d say the ME mini is a solid first step towards your own home server to keep your cherished memories safe and within arm’s reach. The optional up to 24 TB of storage is more than enough space for storing your photos and videos for years on end.
We’ll be using the ME mini as our new office server, to drive things like our cameras, and many of the tools we need every day to make our articles and reviews.
For anybody wondering exactly what our office server setup looks like, without going into too much detail, we have an FTP server, Apache and MySQL for three or so internal tools like battery log and audio sample analysis, a camera monitoring and recording utility and some data delivery for testing tools. It’s nothing too intensive, but at the same time, we do have a few monitors with statistics constantly hitting the server and camera processing for motion detection isn’t too light either. Sure, the Intel N150 isn’t a powerhouse by any means, but it is doing just fine for our use case, which is frankly kind of impressive.
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