The BEST 5-Bay NAS Today (by far?)

We built a 150TB NAS (140TB HDD and 10TB SSD) using a Minisforum N5 Pro, which features a massive AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX Pro 370 processor with ECC memory support and 10GbE connectivity. STH Main Site Article: https://www.servethehome.com/minisforum-n5-pro-review-an-awesome-nas-platform/ Substack: https://axautikgroupllc.substack.com/ STH Top 5 Weekly Newsletter: https://eepurl.com/dryM09 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Where to Find The Unit We Purchased Note we may earn a small commission if you use these links to purchase a product through them. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Seagate 28TB Expansion: https://amzn.to/459usyd - N5 Pro no memory: https://amzn.to/4h0kvZD - N5 Pro 16GB: https://amzn.to/3IOPcEw - N5 Pro 96GB ECC: https://amzn.to/4q0jg0o - TP-Link 10GbE NIC: https://amzn.to/3W5IyNf ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Become a STH YT Member and Support Us ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Join STH YouTube membership to support the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv6J_jJa8GJqFwQNgNrMuww/join Professional Users Substack: https://axautikgroupllc.substack.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Where to Find STH ---------------------------------------------------------------------- STH Forums: https://forums.servethehome.com Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ServeTheHome Follow on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/servethehome-com/ Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ServeTheHome/ Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/servethehome/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Other STH Content Mentioned in this Video ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - AMD Ryzen AI HX 370 Desktop: https://youtu.be/8_pw7mKmaLw - Tiny SSD NAS: https://youtu.be/d6NHlM6zKiM - Our Studio NAS: https://youtu.be/dfx_nJ9uyBw - HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen11: https://youtu.be/434X3oZ1IdI - Seagate 28TB Expansion: https://www.servethehome.com/seagate-expansion-28tb-external-hard-drive-and-the-hamr-hdd-within-mini-review/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Timestamps ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 00:00 Introduction 00:54 Proxmox VE Running on it 01:35 External Hardware Overview 05:25 Internal Hardware Overview 12:18 Minisforum MinisCloud 14:41 Installing Open WebUI and Running Deepseek-r1 1.5B Locally 16:22 Key Lessons Learned