Minisforum Launches A Fanless 40TB All-Flash Local AI NAS At $599
Minisforum is taking direct aim at high-speed home servers and creative workspaces with the launch of the S5, an ultra-compact, fanless all-flash NAS (Network Attached Storage) box. Designed to eliminate mechanical drive chatter and cooling fan whine, the aluminum NAS crams five M.2 NVMe solid state drive (SSD) slots and a local AI engine into a sleek and small form factor, with an introductory price of $599. It arrives barely a month after Minisforum introduced us to its MS-S1 Max-P495 mini workstation.
Rather than relying on HDDs with spinning platters like the Beelink Me Pro we reviewed in April, the S5 is an all-flash solution. The unit can fit up to five standard M.2-2280 form factor PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs, with support for up to 8TB per slot. Busting out the trusty abacus tells us that amounts to up to 40TB of total storage (minus OS overhead, of course).
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