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> You can get MiniPCs with 4-6 internal M.2 slots that are great for building a NAS with. Where can I find that? My current Intel NUC has two M.2 slots and a S
by kccqzy 1y ago
> You can get MiniPCs with 4-6 internal M.2 slots that are great for building a NAS with.
Where can I find that? My current Intel NUC has two M.2 slots and a SATA connection. If I were to relax the definition of a MiniPC to include mini ITX then yes I can find these, but given how the author talks about being all-in-one, I doubt the author is talking about mini ITX builds.
- goosedragons 1y agoThey're pretty rare, but there's some. https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/mini-nases-marry-nvme-intels-efficient-chip https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/mini-nases-marry-nvme... You can also get larger ones like the Asus Flashstor that can do 12.
- LeoPanthera 1y agoThey're all fairly new. "Mini PC NAS" seems to be the magic Google words. One example is the "Beelink ME mini", which has 6 m.2 slots.
- politelemon 1y agoWhat are people doing with 6 M2 slots?
- kjkjadksj 1y agoInstalling 6 m2 drives.
- geerlingguy 1y agoOr three or four for now, and expanding to more later :)
- BizarroLand 1y agoIf you keep an eye out you can sometimes find 4tb nvme drives for ~$200, so you could build an eye watering 24tb raid0 array in one of those that would saturate a 25gb nic for less than $1,500. Or make it a 5x1 parity for a smidge of redundancy.
- justincormack 1y agoThese machines sadly dont have a 25gb nic though!
- BizarroLand 1y agoWell, yeah, but they would if they had one, which would be pretty neat, lol.
- ortusdux 1y agohttps://www.bee-link.com/products/beelink-me-mini-n150 https://www.bee-link.com/products/beelink-me-mini-n150 Currently in Pre-order, but $210 for 6 slots and an N150
- jauntywundrkind 1y agoThere's been a lot of recent offerings like this. Beelink is a pretty great company so this one is particularly tempting, and the form factor is cute as hell. One thing to note in this recent trend is that these designs mostly use the Alder Lake-N / "Twin Lake" cores, which are quad low-power E-cores (still adequate). But more critically, there's only 9 lanes PCIe 3.0! And some of those lanes need to go to networking, be it ethernet and/or wifi! Often there'll be 1x PCIe lane per SSD. Given that it's a NAS running maybe dual 2.5Gbit, this isn't catastrophically bad (1x can do 8Gb/s), but conceptually I find it a bit dismaying anyhow. https://www.techpowerup.com/cpu-specs/processor-n150.c4109 https://www.techpowerup.com/cpu-specs/processor-n150.c4109
- fransje26 1y agoOhhh, with a built-in power supply on the top of it! Very nice! Thank you for the tip.
- p_ing 1y agoRoughly 1GB/s for each NVMe.
- layer8 1y agoThere are SSD NASes that fit the description, and products like the Beelink ME mini.
- shadowpho 1y agohttps://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/almost-perfect-mini-nas-my-mini-rack https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/almost-perfect-mini-n...
- jauntywundrkind 1y agoI do think the Beelink Jeff mentions in this other post shows a lot more promise, with a much more serious cooling solution. It also holds 6x SSD! https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/mini-nases-marry-nvme-intels-efficient-chip https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/mini-nases-marry-nvme...