Intel Atom Bay Trail NUC Kit On Linux

Opening the DN2820FYK NUC Kit is very easy and just requires removing four screws from the bottom of the system.

The lone 2.5-inch HDD/SSD Serial ATA drive bay is exposed and behind that area is the motherboard PCB with the WiFI adapter installed, the single DDR3L 1.35V SO-DIMM slot, etc.

For the testing purposes today an OCZ Vertex 2 solid-state drive was installed along with an 8GB G.SKill Ripjaws DDR3L-1600MHz memory module. The maximum system memory capacity for this system is 8GB, which was met by this single module. While this Intel NUC Kit is advertised as supporting DDR3L-1333/1600MHz memory, the maximum memory bandwidth is DDR3-1066MHz. This memory stick was used due to the memory performance troubles with the ASUS Zenbook Prime ultrabook.

Opening up and installing the RAM and disk drive only takes a few minutes and is very straightforward.

The NUC features built-in Intel Wireless-N 7260BN 802.11b/g/n WiFi plus Bluetooth 4.0 and Intel Wireless Display support. Sadly, the Wireless Display (WiDi) support still doesn't mean much to Linux users.