Review on 💻 ASUS ExpertCenter D500SA Small Form Factor Desktop PC, Core i5-10400, 12GB DDR4 RAM, 512GB PCIe SSD, Wi-Fi 6, TPM, Windows 10 Pro, Black, D500SA-AB501 by Tristan Graham

Let's start with the pros: Buying on Prime Day for <500 is great. At that price I couldn't build a 64-bit Micro-ATX Win10 system from scratch. Fast and quiet enough for my general (business, non-gaming) needs. The first launch was uneventful, the recording was uneventful. Now for the main downside: expandability, which ASUS says is seamless. A second 8GB of RAM was easily added to the motherboard, but the specs say the motherboard has two NVMe slots. Not correct. One of them is occupied by the included 256GB NVMe SSD. The specs also say there are two PCIe slots, but they're actually mini PCIe 1.0 slots, which are useless for a second NVME SSD. The only option I can think of is to purchase a separate PCIe 16 NVME adapter card to install a second 1TB NVMe drive that I purchased separately. It is also not recommended to partition the main OS hard drive for system backup; Either use an external USB SATA drive or connect a second SSD as described above. If you don't need to expand the system since it comes with the box then this is a great little device.