upon arrival I had to run my air compressor through it since it was so caked with dust internally and on the fan/heatsink itself.  After doing that and starting my install for Home Assistant on it, I go to put in my m.2 ssd for it and low and behold the bracket on the motherboard is just not there.  The regular sata one is there from the installed drive KINGFAST brand, is there but the M2 is just totally missing which seemed really odd.