The interesting question is not simply how much storage this little box can accommodate. It is what Beelink’s relatively substantial graphics hardware can contribute alongside those drive bays—and what remains unproven.
A Windows NAS with substantial PC hardware
Chinese publication IT Home corroborates a configuration with 32 GB of LPDDR5x-9600 memory and a 1 TB PCIe Gen4 TLC M.2 SSD. Its report also identifies a separate CNY 11,699 edition bundled with commercial fnOS and Tencent Marvis. Buyers should therefore distinguish the Windows model from the separately priced software bundle rather than assume every ME Pro 358H ships with the same operating system.
Intel’s specifications independently confirm that the Panther Lake-based 358H has 16 cores and 16 threads: four performance cores, eight efficient cores and four low-power efficient cores. Maximum turbo frequency is 4.8 GHz. Its Arc B390 GPU has 12 Xe cores and a maximum graphics frequency of 2.5 GHz. These are processor specifications, not measurements of Beelink’s finished NAS.
What the Arc B390 adds beyond the headline
Intel lists Quick Sync Video, hardware encoding and decoding for H.264, HEVC and AV1, and decoding—but not encoding—for H.266/VVC. That gives the GPU a potentially useful role in a media-serving system beyond drawing a Windows desktop.
The practical interpretation is conditional: compatible media software could use those hardware capabilities, but codec support alone does not establish transcoding speed, simultaneous stream counts or application compatibility. Intel explicitly cautions that functionality depends on the complete system and software configuration. The chip has the ingredients; the NAS still needs its own performance testing.
Four SATA bays, two NVMe slots and fast networking
IT Home reports the following storage and connectivity arrangement:
| Component | Reported specification |
|---|---|
| SATA storage | Four bays accepting 3.5-inch or 2.5-inch drives |
| NVMe expansion | Two M.2 2280 slots, each operating at PCIe Gen5 x2 |
| Wired networking | One 10GbE and one 2.5GbE RJ-45 port |
| Wireless networking | Wi-Fi 6 through a MediaTek MT7920 card |
| Rear connections | Two Thunderbolt 4, two 10 Gbps USB-A and HDMI 2.1 (TMDS) |
| Front connection | One 10 Gbps USB-A |
Notebookcheck additionally reports support for drives up to 30 TB per SATA bay, Bluetooth 5.4 and a rear 3.5 mm audio jack. Four supported 30 TB drives would total 120 TB of raw SATA capacity, a calculation rather than a usable-capacity guarantee. Filesystem and redundancy overhead must not be confused with that headline total.
Two specification details deserve particular attention: the M.2 slots are Gen5 x2, not x4, and the HDMI connection is explicitly described as TMDS. Those qualifiers belong in any comparison; dropping them would make the connection list sound more capable than the reported implementation establishes.
Cooling claims are not operating measurements
Notebookcheck gives dimensions of 121 × 165 × 185 mm, vapor-chamber-and-blower cooling and an included 150 W power adapter. Its report supplies no measured acoustics, temperatures or wall-power consumption, so the adapter rating should not be read as the machine’s continuous electricity draw—or evidence of quiet operation.
The same report places this reservation opening after Beelink’s September preview and an earlier late-October launch target. Previously announced two-bay systems and a Core Ultra 5 325 option are not part of this particular listing.
For Windows users, the strongest verified distinction is the combination of a Windows-included configuration, four SATA bays, dual-speed Ethernet and a processor with documented hardware media capabilities. Whether that combination justifies the price will depend less on the impressive component names than on application support and finished-system testing. For now, this is a concrete China-market reservation announcement—not evidence of a global launch or a proven NAS performance advantage.