Build Your Own Minisforum N5 Inspired Mini NAS: A Comprehensive Guide
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·July 30, 2025poemxo
The black-and-white pic just to show the brown color of the Noctua fan is taking me out
To add something useful, this is very cool but I wish it came in JBOD form so I could run it off a Mac Mini instead, and the pricing listed in TFA seems like an idealistic lower limit.
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The m.2 to sata adapter. Does this serialise the disk io or does it use multiple lanes of the pci bus?
I mean, pricewise and avoiding usb, it's a nice build. I have something not a million miles off using a zimablade and a pci card doing sata, with an ali express sata disk box and an atx psu. Even got 12v off the atx to power the zimablade via DCin
I'm of the "my NAS/home server is an old Laptop and a bunch of more or less random drives" persuasion, but this is great work and great documentation! :)