Minisforum N5 Pro NAS Revealed

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1 Minisforum N5 Pro NAS – Is it too Early for NAS of the Year?
1.1 Minisiforum N5 Pro NAS Hardware Specifications
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Minisforum N5 Pro NAS – Is it too Early for NAS of the Year?

With so many mini PC brands trying to break their way into the network-attached storage NAS market, it takes a lot for any one of them to really stand out against the established players in the private server solutions market. However, one brand that has been making big waves is Minisforum, a brand that enjoyed significant high praise from industry professionals for their growing range of premium mini workstation solutions, such as the MS-01 and MS-A1. Now the brand is ready to break its way into network-attached storage with the first of three planned NAS solutions in 2025. This first one, the N5 Pro, is a 5-bay powerhouse desktop solution that really is pushing the boundaries of what most users expect from a compact 5-bay solution in 2025. After the brand revealed a prototype NAS expansion card that worked with the MS-01 to scale it up to a six-bay SSD solution, it was already pretty clear that this brand had high aspirations toward their own range of storage-optimized solutions. So let’s discuss everything we know about the new N5 Pro NAS.

Minisiforum N5 Pro NAS Hardware Specifications

As mentioned earlier, I am kind of blown away by the hardware specifications of the Minisforum N5 Pro. Borrowing a lot of the hardware attitudes of their recent workstation solutions, this system arrives with a particularly capable AMD HX Pro CPU, 96GB of ECC memory supported, some impressive base-level connectivity, and the means to scale it up significantly. Here are the specifications confirmed so far:

Category Specifications
Processor AMD Ryzen™ AI 9 HX PRO 370 (12 Cores / 24 Threads)
Base Clock: 3.5 GHz, Boost Clock: Up to 5.2 GHz
Advanced AMD Zen 4 Architecture
Integrated AI Engine for enhanced data processing and analysis
Memory DDR5 SODIMM ×2, Up to 96GB (48GB per slot, Up to 5600MHz)
Real ECC Memory supported
Storage Expansion HDD/SSD Bays: 5 x 3.5″/2.5″ SATA HDD/SSD Bays (Up to 22TB per drive, SATA 3.0)
M.2 SSD Slots:
– 1 x M.2 2230/2280 NVMe SSD (Up to 4TB, PCIe 4.0 x1)
– 1 x U.2/M.2 2280/22110 NVMe SSD (Up to 15TB, PCIe 4.0 x1)
– 1 x U.2/M.2 2280/22110 NVMe SSD (Up to 15TB, PCIe 4.0 x2)
PCIe Expansion 1 x PCIe x16 (PCIe 4.0 x4)
OCuLink 4i x1 (PCIe 4.0 x4)
Networking 1 x 10Gbps Ethernet Port (RJ45)
1 x 5Gbps Ethernet Port (RJ45)
Peripherals Interface USB Ports:
– USB3.2 Gen2 Type-A (10Gbps) x3 (2 rear, 1 front)
– USB3.2 Gen2 Type-A (10Gbps) x1 (Internal)
– USB2.0 x1 (Rear)
– USB4 (40Gbps, Alt DP) Type-C x2 (Front)
Audio Outputs:
– 3.5mm Combo Audio Jack x1
– HDMI x1
Video Outputs:
– HDMI 2.0 x1
– Type-C (Alt DP2.0) x2
Power DC-IN Jack x1 (19V / 12.63A)
Motherboard Design Modular motherboard with removable tray for easy maintenance
Cooling Horizontal cooling system with controlled airflow from front to back
Highlights Built-in 10Gbps NIC
Enterprise-class SSD support (Up to 2 drives)
Supports standard PCIe expansion
Supports real ECC memory

I really like the aesthetic design here. The chassis takes advantage of a horizontal cooling system, and the front panel, which is semi-transparent, covers the main storage bays and is magnetically held in place. At the base of the main hard drive bay area, there is a clickable button for removing the main motherboard—but we’ll get on to that in a little bit.

Straight away, we have to talk about that CPU. With both Intel and AMD racing to roll out their best AI-optimized processors, this is a particularly high-end AMD CPU that Minisforum has opted for. Ultimately, CPUs are designed for large language models and AI-facilitated database retrieval to be performed significantly more efficiently, leveraging away from GPU processes. Additionally, with 12 cores and 24 threads to play with, there is a lot of horsepower to get pretty much any home/prosumer/business workload running efficiently. You are looking at a real beefy processor to run your desired third-party OS of choice.

The AMD Ryzen™ AI 9 HX PRO 370 is a high-performance processor introduced in Q2 2024, designed to meet the demands of modern computing tasks. It features 12 cores and 24 threads, operating at a base clock speed of 2.0 GHz, with the capability to boost up to 5.1 GHz. This configuration ensures efficient multitasking and robust performance across a variety of applications. Built on AMD’s advanced Zen 5 microarchitecture, the Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 370 integrates an AI engine capable of delivering up to 50 INT8 TOPS (Tera Operations Per Second). This AI engine enhances data processing and analysis, enabling more efficient handling of AI-related workloads directly on the CPU.

The processor supports PCIe 4.0, facilitating high-speed data transfer between the CPU and connected devices, which is essential for tasks requiring rapid data access and storage solutions. Additionally, it is compatible with DDR5 and LPDDR5x memory types, supporting memory speeds up to 8000 MHz, allowing for a maximum memory capacity of 256 GB. This support for high-speed memory contributes to the processor’s ability to handle intensive workloads effectively. The integrated AMD Radeon 890M graphics adapter, featuring 16 Compute Units based on the RDNA 3+ architecture, provides competent graphics performance for applications that require GPU acceleration. This integration eliminates the need for a discrete graphics card in many scenarios, offering a balance between performance and power efficiency. The AMD Ryzen™ AI 9 HX PRO 370 stands as a versatile processor, combining robust CPU performance with integrated AI capabilities and efficient power management, making it suitable for a wide range of computing needs.

Additionally, alongside this CPU, the system arrives with support for up to 96GB of DDR5 SODIMM memory across two slots. However, the real beauty here is that this SATA and M.2 NVMe-tied storage system also supports DDR5 ECC memory (not just on-die ECC DDR5 like many other similar solutions in the market right now). ECC support is generally more accessible on AMD-powered systems, and the N5 Pro serves as no exception.

Next up, let’s talk storage. The system has five individual hot-swap SATA bays that support both traditional large-capacity hard drives and faster, if more reduced, SATA SSD storage. With regards to RAID, the hardware will comfortably support this, and really you are only limited by whichever NAS software (for example, TrueNAS or Unraid) you choose to run on this NAS. It will no doubt arrive with a standard Windows 11 license, as most Minisforum systems do, but for NAS users, you are almost certainly going to opt for one of these two popular choices.

Alongside the SATA storage, the system features three individual M.2 NVMe slots, with two slots at 2280 length and one slot at 22110 length. More often than not, NAS systems arrive with SATA storage bays and just two M.2 NVMe slots, which can often result in losing one of these M.2 slots to your OS drive. Therefore, it’s pretty impressive that they’ve managed to include three slots here and that all three slots are Gen 4 bandwidth, with one slot at Gen 4 x2 and two slots at Gen 4 x1.

Additionally, much like the Minisforum MS-01 supporting an M.2 to U.2 adaptor, the Minisforum N5 Pro can support two of these adaptors and still allow you to use the last M.2 NVMe slot. U.2 SSDs allow you to take advantage of the faster speed afforded to those Gen 4 slots, but also means a larger capacity potential per bay.

A really impressive feature of the Minisforum N5 Pro is that accessing the main motherboard to add PCIe upgrade cards, install new memory modules, upgrade SSD storage, and perform general maintenance is made infinitely easier thanks to the motherboard being removable at the simple click of a button. Once again, borrowing a lot of the design of the MS-01 removable tray, but on a much larger scale! This is a really unusual design choice, but as soon as I saw it in action, I immediately wondered why on earth this has never been done before—it makes system maintenance and upgrades infinitely easier!

Moreover, you can see that a lot of the cooling internally has been designed around this modular structure, and having the tray removable in this way also results in the active and passive cooling on either side of this motherboard being considerably more controlled and passing through the casing from front to back when the system is in operation.

At a glance, one could argue that this system is simply one of Minisforum’s existing mini PCs with a 5-bay architecture added on top. Though the reality is that a great deal more design and functionality has been developed here, and it all leads to an exceptionally unique but impressively scalable device.

Inside, the system is quite similar in profile to that of the MS-01, and the system arrives with a PCIe Gen 4 x16 physical slot (limited to x4 speed—TBC). So, there is still a decent amount of room to expand this device when needed. However, keep in mind that this is a lower-profile PCIe slot due to the modular nature of the motherboard in this system.

Talking about upgrade and scalability, almost as an afterthought, on the rear of the system, I discovered that the N5 Pro also features an OCuLink port! That means that alongside an enormous range of scalability inside, there is also the potential to add external GPUs, fast bolt-on storage, or more very easily here. OCuLink is still in its comparative infancy compared with a number of different expansion options in the market, but its impressively efficient power delivery and constantly developing accessory market right now all add up to this system having a fantastically varied range of upgrade options available out of the gate.

Next up, let’s discuss network connectivity. The system features copper Ethernet connections—one is 10 gigabit, and the other is 5 gigabit. You definitely get the feeling that Minisforum did not want to leave a shred of PCIe lane bandwidth on the table here. You could, of course, scale up the network connectivity via affordable USB adapters or a PCIe upgrade card, but I have to applaud this system featuring both a dual network architecture and that both of those ports are pretty bandwidth-rich. The rest of the network connections are pretty standard, with the system featuring USB 10Gbps Type-A connections on both the front and the rear, as well as an HDMI 4K output and audio outputs.

However, this system continues to dial things up to 11 by also featuring two USB 4 40Gbps Type-C connections! The brand was unable to confirm network connectivity over these ports, but given the difficulties surrounding USB 4/Thunderbolt 4 network pass-through on AMD architecture, I am willing to bet that this is not going to be a software feature easily achieved here. Also, as this system is not truly turnkey (as you need to get your own NAS OS installed), it means that they can only really focus on the hardware and provide the resources for your chosen NAS software to build on top of. Currently, very few NAS OS platforms support USB 4 network connectivity, so don’t hold your breath.

Overall, I am exceptionally impressed by the Minisforum N5 Pro NAS. After this brand really shaking things up in the mini PC market, I shouldn’t be so surprised that when they attacked the NAS market, they would do so to a phenomenal degree! The system promises to be the first of a two- or three-model series. The brand seems to have been a little quieter on the development of the MS-01 NAS SSD upgrade card, and it could well be that they have slowed development of that card until this system is closer to launch and therefore provide one card that could potentially support flash NAS expandability to six bays across both this system and the previously mentioned MS-01.

Now in place, this is going to be a phenomenal solution to challenge existing pre-built DIY NAS solutions in 2025. Details surrounding launch price and indeed launch dates are still incredibly nebulous, but I have full confidence that this brand is going to launch this product later this year.

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      128 thoughts on “Minisforum N5 Pro NAS Revealed”

      1. That is what I was looking for. All NAS are very low power, just enough to operate with storage. My NAS is PVE with a couple of VM and dozens of CT. I had to build it myself because it is not exactly NAS that I need but a server. Anyway, this one sounds like FINILY!!
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      5. Gotta work on that naming scheme with Jonsbo’s equivalent, though. Asking for a lawsuit.

        With Synology’s new offerings, things are looking pretty dim for them. Even UGreen is looking like a better option than them hardware-wise. Only thing keeping Synology afloat at this point is there matured software.
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      11. I have been doing SO MUCH research into building/buying my first NAS/server. I’ve been looking long and hard at MinisForum Mini PCs to add a DAS onto. This may have just been the exclamation point of my needs. Question is, tho, when would this go on sale??
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      14. 2:00 Eventually there **should** be 128GB DDR5 SODIMM modules, the question is will current proecssors support them, normally as long as they’re not some weird standard like DRIMM, LRDIMM, DCPMM or some other server only standard, it has historically just worked, though at slower speeds
        Now there have been instances where Intel and AMD have both put hard limits on their processors, despite that version of DDR officially supporting more, but that is usually on low end parts like Atoms(now called Alderlake N) as well as some Celeron, Pentium, and i3 branded processors.
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      15. Im looking anywhere for an silent 19“ Nas That Does NOT pull to much power(living in Germany), has good Performance and can hold min. 4×3.5“ better 8 or more and dedicated boot drives Like nvme . If someone knew a Nas, im happy to get informed.
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      22. Looks like it has the specs we want. But their customer support is non-existent. Doesn’t look like enough airflow for proper cooling which means this will be hot and loud. The main takeaway is Synology is asleep at the wheel but we all know they’ve ditched the home user to chase enterprise customers.
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      23. Honestly the first NAS product I’ve seen that could properly address everything I want from a home server in a single low power, minimum footprint box. Enough RAM /Plenty of Cores for virtualization , GPU slot for passthrough encoding to a VM. 5×3.5″ + 3xNVME enough storage (and thunderbolt/occulink for more…). Appears to ooze quality….cant wait for release and full reviews,
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      24. This is a lot better than the MS-1, but they should have made the mobo card slot taller so they can accomodate proper cooling for the cpu and nvme/u.2 drives .

        The ms01 is very noisy with standard fan curve and even with a custom one, still too noisy.

        This is a nas with spinning disks, but if we could have at least better cooling for the ssd side and not a micro fan, it would improve stuff greatly.

        The unit is close to perfect if noise is not an issue for most home use case.

        It even has 2 sodimm slot, thats great stuff.
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      25. I think I would prefer an Intel version. Yes, AMD makes better CPUs, but Intel does better with memory controller and IO. Plus, their iGPU does well for video transcoding. It’s just easy. Still, if you need processing power, looks like a beast of a CPU.
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      32. I just asked you about this a few days ago about my MS-01 and why manufactures dont come out with a nas with some horsepower . AND here we go .I hope they come with both versions the intel with quick sync and the Ryzen . I would probably buy this
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      34. Not that it is not something interesting, but:
        1) you have 30W+ APU plus the card breathing through the miniscule gap below, so you really need high 3rd party legs to let those components breathe adequately… unless they offer an inch thick set in the box…
        2) the top part of 5 3.5 drives sits above the SSD compartment, and its only source of fresh air is going to be whatever gets sucked through gaps around that magnet-attached shiny cover… all the big drives are going to be cooked in there over the extra heat from potential SSDs mounted in the top of the compute drawer as the warm air from the SSDs would radiate up into the LFF bays… and even if the bays are separated from the drawer, so there’s no warm air transfer, there’s a potential heat transfer through the build-up in the drawer into the LFF bays, where potentially already slightly starving for air HAMR drives would get really warm… maybe if they drop the shiny plasticky front panel in favor of a tiny mesh or fabric to act as particulate filtered cool air ingest, this could work great, but it does not look great now with that cheap looking solid panel…
        3) it’s basically like an MS-A1 but with AMD HX AI 370 at the heart in that bottom drawer, but both MS-01 and MS-A1 at least were perforated on the 2 sides to give the hot chips some breathing room, this on the other hand looks like it does not have that luxury… so it’s going to be warm… I mean it looks like with PTM/PCM, it would always have the pads liquid 😉
        4) it’s supposedly with 10GbE Base-T and 5GbE Base-T NICs, somewhat similar to Minisforum’s previous solutions, but why not SFP+, or better yet SFP28, cage along with appropriate NIC? With SFP, you would get an option for DAC, fiber, and copper, with respective transceivers as options, but with Base-T default NICs, you’re just limited to copper… still, it looks like there’s no management-enabled interface anyhow (there’s no trace or mention of such a solution), so again, a lost chance…
        5) it’s great that it uses the 12c 24t chip – that will be enough of a grunt power for most homelab duties such a NAS appliance will need to endure. Especially since the AMD iGPU transcoding engine may not be as widely supported in media servers as their Intel counterpart, so some media serving duties may end up being the chip’s main load in many cases 😉 though with those Zen5 cores it’s going to be sufficiently fast anyhow for software-driven computation… regardless, the iGPU may be capable of several small local GPU-accelerated workloads, but potentially not the gaming oriented ones given the form factor of the device…
        6) in theory, one can fix or improve upon some of the previous points by going the AIC route, but the case looks like it’s going to starve the cards for cooling. They could have, given their previous endeavours, gone with a slightly thicker chassis design to support 2-slot PCIe device, give ample breathing room to 1-slot options and give the APU/SoC a lot more of cooling metal to better dissipate and vent through all the heat from the chips… after all, it’s already taller due to the LFF disk slots above…
        7) I wonder why only 5 LFF bays and not go slightly wider route for an 8-bay (or 10-bay even) chassis, which could then use one of those TFX or better yet SFX PSUs on the extra space below or to the side of the LFF bays… still 5 drives appliance here looks great compared to Ugreen NASyncs, but it all boils down to pricing and availability…
        8) the internal USB3 slot at least sounds better than the 2.0 or similar options HPE put in their Microserver devices for years, but it would have been even sweeter if that was a bigger slot (as in size/space around the slot) to eg. put those usb-nvme adapters in, while this current option may be supporting only some small/low-profile USB sticks…
        9) given the available lanes, it would have been even more interesting if they actually went with SFF 2.5″ SATA connected through a controller, or better yet U.2 or U.3 across the board, with some cheaper but still blisteringly responsive SATA SSDs for colder storage and the hidden M.2/U.2 of the bottom drawer actually routed to U.2/U.3 NVMe bays in the upper part of the device for easier storage device management and potentially better cooling… Heck, they could’ve used some PCIe switch inside to use all the CPU lanes on one end and have all the other devices on the other end to potentially expose more lanes to end devices regardless of CPU’s lanes…
        Maybe there’s going to be the next generation of this thing in the near future where they’re going to fix potential issues and gotchas…
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      37. I was only commenrting recently that there’s been little modern alternative to the old HP microserver gen8 (and still not at the price that thing went for! IO got mine, brand new for £180 with £100 cashback!) but this does look like an awesome modern alternative.

        Any news on whether it supports vpro or another way of gaining remote KVM access via IP?

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      38. yeah score to beat…. just read on the net about how atrocious their hardware can be and is in reality, add diabolical customer service which is pretty much non existent, not to mention other stuff… it’s just cheap chinese crap packed in glossy outfit
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      40. This! This is what I’ve been waiting for. Been holding off buying their popular MS-01 cuz I thought they might release a purpose-built NAS system this year. Wish they’d have it in white. Then it’s perrrfect.
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      41. omg! I want this so hard. My Unraid Setup should be replaced by this. But the MF Support & Service must finally grow if they want to be taken as a serious company. I had so much issues with my HM80 that I have doubts to trust this NAS hardware.
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      47. Very nice ! But worrying about the noise produced by that thing, the cooling of the hard drives (look at these closed front plate and drive caddies), and as usual Minisforum’s dubious customer support.
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      52. I, quite literally, bought a WTR Pro last week.

        Now, if you let me, I’ll start screaming.

        WHY DIDN’T I WAIT ONE WEEK FOR THIS WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
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      77. Nice bit of kit that. My only gripe with it is that I would have liked to have seen 6 bays and 8 bays. Looking at the board + tray combo you could see it had railing. So you could kind of see it coming but it’s a pleasant design feature to be sure. Most of these NAS units are designed in such a way that you practically need a blowtorch to get in.
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      83. That looks amazing but you are going to have to get one of those and test it and review it for us.

        If it delivers on the specs it could be the box that replaces an absolutely ancient NAS I have
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      88. Nice features it reminds me of my 3 Drobo FS. It compares to my old computer I am using with TrueNAS. Gigabyte Aorus X570 Ultra with AMD 5900X and 6 bay case holding 6x 16TB drives.
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      97. This absolutely smokes the UGREEN DXP lineup and most of the other NASes I’ve seen on the market that don’t cost as much as a used car. Wow.

        Official ECC RAM support in this product class is huge.

        I’m so glad this product class is taking off. Synology and QNAP have both grown complacent, and most other players in the market have been sticking to N100/300-class machines that don’t have the connectivity and expandability that someone running a home/small office server is eventually going to need once they grow enough.

        …I’m in love with that sliding motherboard tray. Everyone needs to start doing that immediately.
        (Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to perform rocket surgery on my UGREEN DXP8800 just so I can install more RAM, NVME, and a PCIe card.)
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      102. They should have Intel option. Them encoders are the best for low power consumption.
        Also they should come out with 6-8 bays one aswell. This is like the perfect NAS for small home server needs.
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      107. I have 3 Minisforum PCs. Good hardware, but one was already faulty and here is my problem with Minisforum. The terrible service. I had to send the PC to warehouse here in Germany and then you hear nothing. In total it took 6 Weeks to get a replacement for a 3 Month old PC. Also when you leave a review on the website that is not positive, it disappears.
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      114. AOOSTAR is preparing something similar or even better (depends what are you looking for). It will be 7-bay NAS with R7 8845HS (little worse CPU but still beefy, so probably non-ECC (as CPU doesn’t support it), 2x 10Gbit + 2x 2.5Gbit built-in, 6x 2,5/3,5″ HDD, 2x NVME M.2 onboard + 4x NVME in 7th slot (similar to HDD doughter-card), Oculink. So, from my perspective (as I don’t run critical application and not need ECC) the only price and maybe some other unknown by now features will matter 🙂 Availability in Q1 2025…
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      123. Damn that is a seriously impressive system – I just wish it was 6 HDs for TruesNAS RAIDZ2 6 wide VDev – RAIDZ1 5 Drive might be okay? 4 Drive RAIDZ2 just lacks the speed
        I prefer RAIDZ2 when you are dealing with drives of 16TB that take 12+ hours to do a resilver after a failure – pushing drives hard for that length _could_ cause an additional failure (2 drives failed) and Z2 will survive – that’s the issue with the monster drives we now have
        Wonder if an external enclosure would work for the extra drive?
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      125. Perfect. Glad they realize 5bay is the magic number. This lil thing looks like an absolute banger! Hope the price is reasonable. If so I’ll be picking one up for sure.
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