The Minisforum N5 Pro looks great - but if I can't wait what DIY alternative ?

[Billzabub]

I remember seeing this thread from a google search, and someone further up the thread said they heard from Minisforum support in Tokyo that it would be available in April. Just wanted to add that I spoke to someone from Minisforum on Tiktok of all places and they said it would be available in the US/UK starting in early April. Just providing multiple datapoints. Thanks

Thanks for availability update - That's good to know!!
Since I posted, I've made some progress on retiring some of my old  PCs that I built as backup and chia farms. I've also been freeing up some drives on the QNAPs ready to retire at least the TS-509Pro. 

I think the N5 Pro will fit in nicely as centralized video, photo storage and synchronization hub. 
I need to look into optimal Adobe Lightroom setup - my new PC will have "working" version of photo library - I'm going to have enough fast local storage for fast AI/facial recognition across 20 years of photos and videos. 

But then I want other machines to be able to access the same library and same catalog updates from across network or remotely. And I will do that via a copy stored on N5 Pro which will periodically gets synced to the working version on my PC.