Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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► Check the full review: windowsreport.com/lincstation-s1-review-a-prebuilt-nas-for-tinkerers

The LincStation S1 is the latest in LincPlus’s budget NAS series, designed to accommodate up to four full-size HDDs, with two NVMe SSD slots, 8GB of upgradable DDR5 RAM, and an Intel N97 CPU. It’s compact, efficient, and boasts excellent build quality. But that’s not what makes it special.

What makes the S1 genuinely interesting is that—rather than pushing some annoying proprietary OS—LincPlus has taken the very sensible decision to load it with UnRAID. That’s right: it’s a turnkey, prebuilt UnRAID server.

Out of the box, you’re getting a system compatible with thousands of virtual machines, apps, and Docker images, plus a huge existing community of users ready to help.

0:00 Intro
1:00 Kickstarter disclosure
2:15 Specs
3:15 Ports
3:43 Design and build
4:51 Operating System (UnRAID)
6:45 Licensing concerns
7:05 What can you do with UnRAID?
8:21 UnRAID setup and RAID
12:18 Performance testing
14:17 Who is the LincStation S1 for?