New passive motherboard for NAS-8845HS-20G server, an alternative for those who want a home NAS with plenty of available power.
This motherboard is a version of similar ones with aluminum fins on the power supply phases and a copper plate for passive cooling of the APU. Thanks to the large number of connectors we can install up to eight SATA disk drives to store Teras of data. We have the AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS eight-core processor manufactured in just 4 nm and supported by a processor for AI with 38 TOPS. As a graphics processor, this APU has aRadeon 780M iGPU with RDNA3 architecture capable of running games at a good level. You can learn more details about this processor in our review.
We have bearded versions and we can also buy it with SSD RAM to have it operational from the first moment. If we want we can mount a LGA1700 fan if we are going to squeeze it.
Specifications of NAS-8845HS-20G board
In this passive board offers us soldered AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS Octa Core processor with sixteen threads, with speed up to 5.1 GHz and an NPU for AI up to 38 TOPS. It includes a powerful 12-core Radeon 780M iGPU that reaches a speed of 2.7 GHz. A processor manufactured in 4 nm with Zen 4/4c technology. With which we can move any demanding application, demanding games or play multimedia directly.
As for the RAM memory we have two SO-DIMM DDR5 5600 MHz slots with 32 GB of RAM expandable up to 64 GB in Dual Channel. In the storage section we have two slots M.2 PCIe4.0 NVMe 2280 and allows us to connect up to 9 SATA disks with optional cables.
Other notable features
In the connectors section we find 3 USB-A 3.2 Gen2 ports, two USB-A 2.0, a USB4 port (with Alt DP output), 3.5 mm audio jack and two 10G Ethernet ports. As video outputs we have HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 1.4 connectors with support for up to 8K@60fps resolutions, we have a total of three video outputs if we count the USB-C. We also have a PCIe x16 slot to use a dedicated GPU.
The power supply we need a 24 pin 4 pin connector to an ATX power supply, but it can be compact and underpowered. The supported operating system is Windows 11 Pro, but we can also install Linux or any NAS-specific distribution if we prefer.
Price and availability
- The NAS-8845HS-20G motherboard can be purchased from Amazon starting at $531 with free shipping included, two SFF-8643 cables for SATA drives are included.
