I bought one of these here last month, and it DEFINITELY has a remote.
Bought one of these a few months ago for full price on Amazon and love love love it. Put 16GB of RAM in it and it does everything I want. I’ve got 3 4TB WD Red drives and a single 128GB SSD for cache acceleration and the thing performs great. Mostly just a PLEX, file server, time machine, but I’m also using is as a web proxy. Handles all the transcoding needs I need (mostly just saving videos from plex to my ipad for traveling.) I do recommend creating your own shares though. If you put your media in the default shares it tries to index them using their built in media crap and it’s no bueno…