Over the years people keep asking me what brand or what computer I would recommend buying, so I figured I would do a post about it. The main brands for computers have really taken a dive when it comes to quality. Those include Dell and HP. Asus wasn’t bad but as the brand gets more popular it seems like the quality of there hardware goes down.
The brand I am excited to talk to you about is MINISFORUM. I will start with the cheapest recommendation and then go up from there if you are wanting more speed and power.
I am going to keep this article simple and straight to the point. If you are wanting more detailed information/Specs visit the Amazon product link.
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Best Budget Option
MINISFORUM NAB9 Plus
Processor: Intel Core i9-12900HK (14 Cores/20 Threads)
RAM: 32GB
SSD Storage: 1TB (File Storage)
Price: $499.00
Price Date: 11/8/25
Includes: OCuLink for optional add on mentioned in article if you want more power.
Best Ultimate Option
MINISFORUM X1 Pro-370
Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 HX 370 (12 Cores/24 Threads)
RAM: 96GB DDR5
SSD Storage: 2TB (File Storage)
Price: $1255.90
Price Date: 11/8/25
Includes: OCuLink for optional add on mentioned in article if you want more power.
Optional Add On for above recommendations
Fair warning this add on is more for the advanced user. Basically this allows you to add a more powerful external video card to any MINISFORUM computer with OCuLink.
Keep in mind that the dock, video card and the power supply all need to be purchased to use this optional add on. For people not knowing this, is the reason the dock is returned a lot.
Recommended Add On Dock
MINISFORUM DEG1 eGPU Dock
Only the Dock
Price: $99.99
Price Date: 11/8/25
Recommended Add on Video Card
XFX Radeon RX 7900XT
Gaming Graphics Card
Price: $590.59
Price Date: 11/8/25
Recommended Add on Power Supply
MSI MAG A650BE
650W ATX Power Supply
Price: $64.99
Price Date: 11/8/25
Bonus Storage Recommendation
MINISFORUM N5 Pro 5-Bay Network Attached Storage
Processor: AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 370(12 Cores/24 Threads)
RAM: 16GB DDR5
Storage: 144TB
This product comes with no hard drives so you will need to buy those. The price below does not include the added cost of that.
Price: $1,062.00
Price Date: 11/8/25
Recommended HDD drives to Buy
Seagate IronWolf Pro HDD
Storage Size: 4 TB
Enterprise NAS Internal HDD
Price: $129.66 each (X5 = $648.30)
Price Date: 11/8/25
I recommend buying 5 of these and running a RAID 5. Meaning your files are copied to multiple drives and you still have the speed of 5 drives. If a Hard Drive stops working in 10 years, RAID 5 allows for hot swapping out the bad drive with no lose of files.
I recommend buying HDD’s over M.2 SSD due to the cost of M.2 SSD. Plus buying HDD’s allows for hardware failure fixes in the future. If after you install this option and you find your copy speeds are too slow you can always add an M.2 SSD in the future.
This recommendation has a high up front cost of $1,700 but if you are paying $20 for two people a month for cloud storage it will be paid off in 3.5 years.
