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I've seen hype around the Minisforum n5 Pro NAS but I'm not sure how much is marketing. What does the community think? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by njordomir@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I understand this could be posted in a hardware forum or I could use a stats comparison tool (and I've poked around a fair bit as is), but I'm curious, specifically from the self-hosted, roll-your-own NAS perspective, does the Minisforum n5 Pro seem like a decent machine for self-hosting? Any impressions? What percebtage of this is the marketing hype-train and what percentage would still be good if it shipped unbranded in a cardboard box. What would you expect this to cost?

https://www.minisforum.com/pages/n5_pro

Currently I'm running one of the DS-Series Synology NAS but I want to remove the Synology dependency because I don't fully trust them to deliver and not remove features. I would rather give the TrueNaAS thing a try (or something in that direction) now so I'm prepared to jump ship when I need to. I'm lucky enough to be able to buy a decent NAS and hang onto it for a while, but I want to come in below the point where an extra $100 doesn't really get me much anymore.

I am specifically interested in the hardware because I don't plan to use the default OS.

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[–] mio@lemmy.mio19.uk 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

~~I read their webpage. They advertised having ECC and using AI 9 HX 370. Are they fake advertising about ECC? AMD explicitly listed ECC unsupported on the page of AI 9 HX 370. ~~ Edit: I was confused by amd's naming

[–] philpo@feddit.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They list the AI 9 Hx Pro 370 which does support ECC.

[–] mio@lemmy.mio19.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks! AMD's naming system is so confusing to me

[–] philpo@feddit.org 2 points 1 year ago

Same for me, I just knew it because I stumbled across it recently.

Well,tbf, AMD is at least a little bit better than Intel. They are even worse.

I fucking want proper, block based naming back

[–] aim_at_me 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

~~The pro version supports ECC.~~ looks like someone already informed you.

[–] mio@lemmy.mio19.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you for informing me