Your mini-NAS with the 3D printed case is very cool. I also like some aspects of the zimaboard, like the passive cooling and exposed sata ports and PCIe bus, but the N3450 (Apollo Lake) cpu is ancient - it was released in Q32016. I purchased a passively-cooled CWWK/Topton N5105 firewall/router box from ebay that costs about the same as the zimaboard, but the N5105 (Jasper Lake) has more than twice the performance of the N3450 for just a 10W TDP. The latest Alder Lake N-series (N100, N200,..) are even faster, also rated at a 10W TDP. I just don't see the value in the zimaboard until they modernize the cpu.
"Building the Perfect Home NAS!" Oh, and by the way, there's no RAID. I IMPLORE YOU IF YOU ARE WATCHING THIS VIDEO. Respect data integrity/security. DO NOT USE CASA OS AS A NAS PLATFORM!
I keep reading this. But I haven't found any nuc style pc with the same specs at the same price (160 dollars with its current discount). Could you please recommend any simple nuc style pc at the same price? Also what makes this attractive to me is how power efficient it is (6-watt TDP before you add peripheral) . Could you please recommend any simple nuc style pc that is so power efficient?
@hyperion6 i don't think that zimaboard is 6w "whole consuption", because the 6w is the cpu only, and in fact the adapter is 12vx3A=36W. There are similar cpu for around 10w,for example i have NUC6CAYH that is a 10 w and a NUC5PPYH that is 6w (cpu only) the benchmark are similar with zimaboard, and being quite old they cost similar to zimaboard BUT they can be upgraded and they have a real ssd, not a emmc (soldered). yes, the costs are a bit higher (a nuc5 + 8 gb + 128 gb ssd would cost around 190€), but... it's a real pc and if yuo have some problems with ram or ssd you can simply replace them.
@@massimo79mmm I don't care if it's upgradable. I want to use it as an emby server with transcoding and the specs of it are more than enough. If I got it right, there isn't anything cheaper that a zimaboard with 8 gb ram on it and with support of hardware hevc transcoding, right? Btw, they do claim TDP 6W. on the specs of the device, I checked it again,. They may lie, but I haven't found anyone posting anywhere that they lie about it.
I bought an HP G3 800 for $50 free shipping. I’m running truenas, plex, windows 11, and others on proxmox and it runs great. I have an internal m.2 and a sata drive. Btw it has 32 gigs of memory installed.
with the value of how mini pc's can offer so much more and that are priced decently, zimaboards and rpi's really meant for the niche audience and not really in the best way anymore due to their rise in cost and low availability too and it's honestly a shame because they are great for the possibilities you can get out of them. i have an rpi4, but i'm pretty soon going to get a mini pc that i can use all the usb ports with, video connections, and even hook up a small little DAS for media storage and there's my microserver or i can even search ebay to achieve a more microserver chassis to use.
There's no real availability issues with Pi's at least. One can walk into a store and grab a pi4 off the shelf in many/most places. They were suffering from parts availability from the whole chip shortages etc that affected corporations around the world. New cars were parked in fields over a year waiting on parts. They finally started omitting options to get em back on track. The pi5's yes are difficult to get yet as they're brand new just released. Yet not officially sort of as they were tracked for Jan release. But they too will become easy to get. They're back to full production
I have an x99 based system with plenty of ram, a 20 core cpu and tiered cache for ZFS... Not o mention the 40GBe card in it. So this Celeron-based stuff is cute, but for me it is far from a 'NAS'.
You can utilize the pcie2.0 port to add extra sata adapters, but would need a power supply for powering those drives. And inboard has some docs on how to install unraid.
I couldn't find one but with more popularity I could see it being done. Also, the Zimaboard site recommends not using anything larger than 2 2.5 inch drives as the power restrictions really don't support anything bigger. I could even see this implemented on one of those 10in racks. Pretty fun stuff
Wow, just found this channel. What a great video. I built something similar with intel nuc and a 1:20 scale shipping container for a case. I think I’ll build another one using your design.
Dang this is the video I was looking for also uploaded 7 hours ago cheers I’m gonna pick up the development kit next month thank you again for the video 🎉😯
Has CasaOS fixed the issues with the 'combined drives' spontaneously losing your data? I mean, its Linux so there should be *many* different ways to combine the drives and have them safe?
@@bern71 Yes, it has, but also it has only 2 SATA ports, what if I need more? I was curious if cards like combined 10G+SAS HBA exist, but wasn't able to find any.
Two suggestions-maybe don’t do your screen capture at 1440p (?) makes it pretty tiny unless you’re viewing on a similar large screen. I also don’t think you explained why you’d want to use a slower rate backup solution vs your relatively fast copy-paste approach. For backups, automation is crucial. What you’re getting though here is not only compression but the ability to backup only changed files, and also multiple versions of those files with configurable frequency and retention. That and of course duplicati can also transfer to many destination types like cloud services, S3 buckets, etc.
Ask it to zoom its screen in Windows instead of telling it to lower its resolution if you want things to be larger. You're watching this video but you don't know the basics.
Im watching this on my television with chromecast. From the couch I cannot see or read the details so yeah a bit of zooming in the video editor would help. 👍
You could definitely do it over the internet outside of your home, if you install Nextcloud or a local VPN, otherwise only available if connected to the same wifi
You could look at something like Tailscale (I'm not affiliated with them), like, you could setup one connection at NAS and others at your phone, laptop, etc..