About $495: Minisforum sells the N5 Air-7640 NAS with up to 174TB
A network storage box with a Ryzen 5 7640HS and five drive bays, starting at $495 in the US with no memory or drives.
Minisforum sells a small box that stores your files and photos and shares them over the network. It holds five large drives. The listed price does not include the drives.
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Why it matters
It lets you keep photos and files at home or in the office at a fair price, with fast ports for growth.
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The details
- The Ryzen 5 7640HS comes with Radeon 760M graphics and supports up to 96GB of DDR5.
- It has five HDD bays and three M.2 slots, rated for 174TB of storage.
- Ports: two USB4, OCuLink, 10GbE and 5GbE Ethernet, and a PCIe x16 slot running at PCIe 4.0 x4 speed.
- The price starts at $495 with no memory or storage.
- A version with 16GB of memory and 64GB of OS storage costs $679. It is on sale now.
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