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Seriously still no non apple app? skip...

Nah...if was cheaper maybe

Can you tell me if I currently have one active WAN and and I wanted to preconfigure a second WAN, upon configuring the second will it knock my VPN remote session off after applying the new WAN setting ? I only have remote access to this device and although I am not doing any load balancing or failover I am moving their system from cable to a new fiber connection. Thanks

Definitely would like to get your thoughts on it as a complete product. Having a decent CPU and expansion options (not to mention decent network ports included) would make it very desirable over something like a Synology, but DSM adds quite a lot of value to their product line. CasaOS is cool and easy to use, but just adding raid options to it doesn't really make it DSM, no matter how much it's name sounds like the '90s version of White Claw..

Still no ecc. Still external psu. Just can’t understand why.

We’re starting to see NAS manufacturers using similar specs (Intel i5 1235U) such as TerraMaster and UGreen. The pricing for such prebuilt hardware isn’t necessarily cheap. Fair market value? Probably more like what the market will bear.

Hi Raid, We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks for your comprehensive and insightful review of ZimaCube and ZimaOS. Your detailed evaluation has been invaluable to us, and we truly appreciate the time and effort you have dedicated to understanding our products. We have taken note of the concerns you raised regarding the Open Beta status of ZimaOS on GitHub, and we want to provide some clarification. It is true that we initiated an internal testing phase to thoroughly test and enhance the functionality of the system, which is what you observed. However, with our relentless efforts and continuous improvements, ZimaOS has now been officially released alongside ZimaCube and has reached a stable standard. We have updated our GitHub copy to reflect this change. We place great importance on user feedback and experience, and we have been working hard to ensure that ZimaOS provides the best performance and user experience possible. Once again, we are immensely grateful for your support! Best Regards, IceWhale Team

I got the pro during the kickstarter and its a real shame as its some good hardware but you cant populate all the hdd bays with high capacity drives and use a GPU as the way they have chosen to power the NAS with a barrel plug, limiting power to the backplane and motherboard. Often come back to find its off or just not responding because the drives and GPU had to fight for power. Its way to early to sell this and should have another revision before they put it out for production after the kickstarter for it. I would wait for round two as the noise alone from the power pack and fans is not home lab friendly.

its just one hell of a machine having unraid installed on it...maybe i just need a 10gb backbone network to have it working even better

There's also the point of software improvements over time. Ugreen software improved so much in the past year like you said, so what's it going to look next year? They already added a lot in the 3 months since the posting of this video.

at 8:15 .... all the people complaining are nerds that want to build their own systems but you have to respect those that aren't able or have the time to tinker ..... I like to tinker :)

ZimaOS is not fully baked for sure. I've already pointed out to them that selling a device that they label as a NAS that doesn't support creating volumes and presenting them to other machines on the network over iSCSI is a failing. I didn't even go down the FiberChannel road with them. I did basically tell someone there that my expectation would be that ZimaOS could do at least what a Synology or QNAP box could do. I've turned mine into a very good TrueNAS scale machine. I did consider Openmedia Vault, but I have more hours in on TrueNAS.

Does Linux cause you to speak in your annoying sing song whine? How about the terrible audio, Linux, incompetence or apathy? I'd like to hear the whole discussion but this is unlistenable.

$1000. ouch

dude it's $1100 empty. not sure who the hell would spend that kinda $

lol. Meh. They’ll make something good someday. Maybe.

Not bad design. Although speaking about the elephant in the room does it have rear fans for the hard drives? I can't tell from the video.

I would prefer to have Gen4 1x on the 4 nvme and having the pcie x8 be a real x8. manufacturers needs to allow to downgrade the Gen speed for more lane on older AIC devices.

Gotta love YT reviews. Earlier Zima products where good by virtually all,but now they've made something useful 😊 Note I'm not talking about this channel. Just overall

Amazing. Need to save some money. Wish that Synology did something like this....

there are much cheaper solutions and the savings can buy a lifetime worth of burritos

I have an Nvidia RTX 4000 ada sff. It might fit

I am glad they are expanding and providing a good hardware solution that is compatible and competitive.

That's... a lot of power draw - honestly 140W spikes is more than I expected - I wonder if your C states were set up properly in Proxmox? I get less than that level of draw from my Supermicro dual Xeon system, at least at idle. (Full-blast 72 cores not so much, or rather a lot more!) I have three lightly loaded Xeon-D systems right in front of me, and including the 10G network switch and a Terramaster F8 plus (also on proxmox ceph) on the same UPS, it's about 200-220W.

potato

Love your videos. Watching this, makes me want one of these ZimaCube's. That's a really, really awesome system. It's small and beautiful case. Glad you covered it, Raid Owl.

I like your build. Now you can go sit at your friends house with a G-cloud or a Steam deck and any game you can't play you can just stream from the NAS. You can also remote in and manage a Co-Lo media server and/ or offsite back up. Not a bad little rig.

1000+ retail price... We can build a much better system with less.

CasaOS, ZimaOS, it's all just customized Linux.

Hahahaha @TechnoTim!! @RaidOwl, I love this! Actually I love all 3 of you guys!!! shout out to @craftcomputing~!

Wicked video, I think one thing that wold be EPIC idea would be to have the power cord off board, that has one of the screw on barrels that can't come unplugged by accident..

I have more fun building my own stuff, and I'm pretty meh about Zima in general (especially that highschool parking lot bottled dog water lol), but I do kinda like this one..... No doubt the price is a bit steep but I'm so over the current meta; nearly everything else has a few core/tablet CPU, one RAM bank, and a pile of "options" with barely half the lanes you need to use any of it (And I don't care that they run on less than a lightbulb). Yep, this one's kinda cool.

1:39 awesome design in relation to what? Pcie adapters aren’t new 8:21 still have to fork out and fill it with something to hold the data first

Looks like a 1970s airconditioner

preeeetty sure nic on lfet is 10gbe as it has white LED no ?

In my opinion, the price to performance ratio of Zima stuff is poor and no HDD for 1100$ or more. Not worth.

8:11 😂

Yeah, this thing is WAYYYY too expensive for what it does tbh.

"Some people don't want to build their own shit" lmao That earned a thumbs up from me 😅

Hybrid 4x NVMe + 6x SATA? YES PLEASE! <3 Now the last wish I have is 2U rack-mountable version of this, because specs-wise it looks awesome (including 10G interface)

This device does NOT support SAS drives. Please do not buy expecting support for those drives. Just a word of caution :-)

Im build it guy, but seriously would consider this. This has everything you need for a good homelab. Better than almost any other consumer nas solution. Can you passthrough individual nvme drives from that card?

the zima reference took me back to my younger days 😂

This machines case reminds me of a NeXT Cube.

Would I be able to install UNRAID os on this?

1:28 BUT BRETT! I usually spend like a minute screwing so this isn’t an inconvenience

Personally, I like it. I guess if I saved up over the course of a week or two... Hopefully they make it in a barebones version..

I have a problem with Zima products, on the one hand they seem premium and on the other hand they suffer from the problems of being oddly designed. I agree with you Owl, that not everyone wants or can build something of their own, but for half the price of the 64GB version ($1,249) I built two NASes, one (main home server) on i7-11800H/64GB RAM/10GbE and the other (backup srv) on N5105/16GB RAM/10GbE each in the Modcase MASS Premium case. In my opinion, the price to performance ratio of zima stuff is poor. Anyway thank's for another interesting and great video.

this is the same lack of pcie lanes that I have been complaining about with modern high end consumer cpus for a LOOONG while. - GIVE US MORE PCIE LANES ALREADY!! - PCIE x1 for nvme is BS. you take 7000mb/s capable nvme drives down to ~2000mb/s. the sata hot swap bays do look rather nice, and having 10g on board is excellent (and should be on EVERYTHING at this point.) and a 4x pcie slot isn't nearly enough for something like an ai gpu or gaming gpu... ugh.