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Minisforum has told Tom’s Hardware that its powerful AI NAS, the N5 Max, will launch on April 23, 2026. The firm describes this as a breakthrough device, and indeed its specs are pretty extreme for a consumer NAS, with an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 delivering 126 TOPS of AI compute power under the hood. It boasts 64GB LPDDR5X RAM, support for up to 200TB of storage, and comes with OpenClaw pre-installed on its 128GB system drive. We’ve also been given the full specs sheet (see below) and told the price for this tasty tech concoction. It will retail at $2,899.
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Previously, we have reported on the overall product concept and key specs. It was already clear that this was a true Max member of the Minisforum N5 range, which also includes the N5 Pro with Ryzen AI 9 HX Pro 370 for $1,750, or $899 for barebones, and the N5 Air, based on an AMD Ryzen 7 255, which is $519 for barebones.
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Minisforum expects users to wield this AMD Strix Halo power for “self-owned computing, privately controlled AI.” To help users get started box-fresh, it includes pre-integrated one-click deployment tools to enable full OpenClaw capabilities on the local platform. More specifically, the mini PC stalwart suggests using the N5 Max's power for “AI-powered semantic photo search… AI smart editing… [and] AI Agent OpenClaw” to work smartly on your behalf.
Enough of that AI waffle, though, let’s look at the cold, hard specs. The table below should let you know exactly what you are getting for your nearly $3,000.
Minisforum N5 Max specifications
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Product Type | NAS (MinisCloud OS / Windows 11 Pro / Linux) |
CPU | AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395, 16 cores / 32 threads, 3.0–5.1 GHz |
GPU | Integrated Radeon 8060S, 40 compute units, 2.9 GHz |
AI Performance | Up to 126 TOPS total, 50 TOPS NPU |
Memory | 64GB LPDDR5X unified, up to 8533 MT/s (non expandable) |
Storage (Total) | Up to 200TB (160TB HDD + 40TB SSD) |
HDD Bays | 5 × SATA (up to 32TB each) |
SSD Slots | 5 × M.2 NVMe (1× PCIe4 x4, 4× PCIe4 x1) + 128GB system disk installed |
Networking | 2 × 10GbE (RTL8127) |
Front I/O | USB4 (40Gbps), USB 3.2 Gen2 |
Rear I/O | 2 × USB4 v2 (80Gbps), USB 3.2 Gen2, USB 2.0, HDMI 2.1, AC in |
Internal I/O | USB 3.2 Gen1 |
Video Output | HDMI + USB4/USB4 v2 (up to 8K60 / 4K144) |
Cooling | 5 heat pipes + PCM, 2× CPU fans, 2× HDD fans, 1× SSD fan |
Noise | 33 dB (Balance), 38 dB (Performance) |
Power | Max 250W, 100–240V AC input |
Dimensions / Weight | 199 × 202.4 × 252.3 mm, 5.8 kg |
Some of the key specs we have now that weren’t disclosed in the prior PR or official blogs include the supplied RAM and storage specs/quotas. In the era we live in now, these are sensitive stats.
You can see that the N5 Max, as priced, is configured with 64GB of LPDDR5X-8533 memory, which is non-expandable. On the plus side, that's pretty fast system RAM, which the powerful iGPU will appreciate.
Though you can expand this device to 200TB of lovely storage with 5x HDDs and 5x M.2 SSDs, you don’t get much to start with. Minisforum is shipping this device with a 128GB system disk, according to the spec sheet. That uses one of the five M.2 slots.
There is probably sufficient I/O for many users, including a pair of 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports (but no wireless/BT). We also note that there are 3x USB4 ports, two of which are USB4 v2 with up to 80 Gbps.
We’ve seen Strix Halo systems without the NAS functionality around the $3,000 level, so this price is tolerable given that context. Has Minisforum chosen specs well with its fixed 64GB memory and minimal starter storage, given its product marketing? Buyers will vote with their wallets.
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