Minisforum’s grotesquely overpowered N5 Max NAS finally gets a price and release date

Despite launching as laptop chips, AMD's Strix Halo line of APUs has found itself in a wide range of devices, such as mini-PCs and even handheld gaming consoles. Minisforum decided to put one in a NAS, resulting in the beastly N5 Max, complete with an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 and 64 GB of RAM. Most Strix Halo systems using the chip usually come with 128 GB, but Minisforum probably had to settle given how precious memory is these days. Tom's Hardware has now revealed the price of the beefy NAS.

The Minisforum N5 Max will set one back by an eye-watering $2,899. If you're in the market for an overpowered NAS, you can buy one on April 23. Storage is extra, obviously, and the barebones machine ships with a measly 128 GB drive, which occupies one of the five available NVMe slots. It also has five SATA drive bays, allowing you to add up to 200 TB of storage to your NAS.

Alongside its impressive network storage prowess, the Minisforum N5 Max also offers an impressive range of I/O, such as two 10 Gb/s Ethernet ports, two 80 Gb/s USB 4 ports, one 40 Gb/s USB 4 port, and even an HDMI 2.1 port for display output-something not commonly found on many NAS devices. Essentially, you get a standard Strix Halo mini-PC (sans wireless connectivity options), with the option to hoard copious amounts of data locally.