Pickup the ZimaCube directly from the IceWhale site: cutt.ly/FeIWBmI9 Or consider using my Amazon link here, to get other Zima gear too: amzn.to/4ezkrO2 These are the NVMe drives I am using: amzn.to/4gDENHP This is a similar model to the long term storage drives I am using too: amzn.to/4gG5xat Let me know your thoughts on this NAS. I already have it up and running with ZimaOS, so subscribe to see how well that works in my homelab network!
The bundle with the RTX 2000 ADA is intriguing. That's basically a 3070 with 16GB VRAM in a SFF form factor and would allow you to lots of things at a NAS level, like image generation or mass file compression/tagging utilizing the GPU. Often times, you load up terabytes of images and videos before you realize you need a good way to organize/categorize them and/or compress them to save storage. There are several tools that can be ran on NAS's to do this, but being able to accomplish those tasks with a GPU and take a day versus weeks could be well worth the cost.
I understand the price is important, but after issues with a W680 platform for months, because something wasn't working, I got fed up, sent everything back and got myself an EPYC 8024P + RAM + motherboard. Sure, it has much more headroom power-wise, but in idle it only consumes 64Wh with 4 U.2 NVMe SSDs, 96Gb DDR5 ECC RDIMMs, 1 m.2 NVMe and 5 fans. And the 8024P is the lowest. The fun things are 96 PCIe lanes as well as enough headroom for RAM, storage etc. I was lucky to get it mildly used (in pieces, mind you) for about 700€ though. For someone, who doesn't need the extra, something as simple as you reviewed, looks fine though.
@@jokerminer1 potentially. I would get the pro version to run VMs though. I'm testing out zimaos and maybe it could run a few small VMs, just not concurrently
