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Hahahahaha. God damn, yeah that is not worth it. Honestly even if it was free, I'd send it back. The feeling of this plastic in my hands was an utter shock. You know like when you pick up a plastic take-away container that's about to crack... like that

Linux 5.4 kernel likely won't have audio over HDMI without a lot of messing about. Linux 6.1 kernel should work fine, but you might need to enable the overlay. Tested confirmed with an Orange Pi Zero 3 using Armbian.

@@PlatimaTinkers Thanks a lot, but how to enable the overlay?

@@Bersotti `armbian-config`

Mixed, currently. Hah. RISC-V = win, Espressif documentation = win, 55x GPIOs = win, Xai extension = wut?

That is excellent to know, thank you kindly. It looks like I'll be partnering with Radxa early in 2025 for a fun project of that type!

Yeah mate a lot of them can! Recommending a board depends on what you're wanting to do though, eg looking for a devboard, eSBC, SBC, wanting wifi and GPU, or just CLI? etc.

Yeah that's a very good point, and honestly makes a lot of sense. I really was after some 4K30 action though, so just not quite for me. No joke would probably be better making one myself with devboards or SBCs these days 😅

Thanks @Waveshare_Ruan! And thank you to your awesome team for making amazing products ❤ I've been using Waveshare products for over 10 years now, and am very proud to now also stock them 😊 Peace

Hey mate thank you very kindly for your support, in all forms! I just saw the order come through and it'll ship out Monday. Have a great weekend, and happy holidays to you and yours!

​@@PlatimaTinkers cheers mate. Shipping to Canada is kinda weird, so it looks like it is cheaper for me to order some of these boards from you than directly from China. I'm talking about Arace charging me a whooping $150 to ship a board that costs $50 😅 You'll be getting a lot more orders from me going forward lol

@@frustratedalien666 Oh man that is insane! Glad I can help in some way, and that makes sense as I ship a lot to US and Canada. Don't forget about shop.plati.ma/pages/suggest-a-product too!

Oooh nice, thank you kindly I will keep an eye out

I actually think it's underpriced. It is very very powerful and capable. Just also LOUD haha. I might have to Geekbench it today if I don't forget when I head out there!

Benched it. browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/23211053 and browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/9650340 Turns out I already had previously, but forgot haha. So yeah, second best I've tested so far, but that's not taking the NPU into account which is insanely good, and what beat it was an 8-threaded RK3588S with A76 and A55's, compared to this being a little bit older generation with just A53's. CasaOS on it, and the AI features, make it definitely worth the cost IMHO though.

Yes you are not wrong for the most part, but that does not make it 'standard'. Those RT5300, RT5400, RT9400, etc, is a very common PoE module, but technically made specifically by Richtek and are proprietary to a degree from what I understand, with just a few vendors adopting it for non-standard SBC form factors. Those three you mentioned all require it to be soldered, as they did not add header pins (albeit those pins for that current are expensive), which is a shame as it means less people will do so due to either lack of skill, or the fact it voids warranties in most countries. The 40+4 pin header arrangement is considered standard for SBCs, and even some that only have ~26 GPIOs will still match the spacing for the 4-pin POE header (Oz64). This was essentially 'standardised' by Raspberry Pi, of course.

I've got Pinecils constantly on backorder! They are always sold out before the next batch even arrives 😅 Never tried a TS100, but I'm going to have to. I'm pretty happy with the Pinecil though, it's my weekly go-to and I only bust out the solder station for big stuff now like copper pipe.

@PlatimaTinkers Their stats seem pretty similar so I'm certain they're solid irons and for a much lighter price no wonder you cannot keep any in stock. I'll just keep checking back. Thanks.

@@repairstudio4940 Just hit 'notify me when back' if you want, else I can open-up backorders so you can get in the queue? I think I've got a few more arriving Monday or Tuesday by the looks of things though!

@@PlatimaTinkers awesome sounds great, also I'm hoping I can get some good tips, angled and beveled for certain.

@@repairstudio4940 Stock JUST arrived. Some pre-sold. 3 left. ETA 8 weeks for more as their shipping is slow. Yeah I use the 'short fine' tip set myself for 99% of things. I have a few of those left in stock too.

Hey cheers for checking in, and the comment! I thought the had 0.7.1? I was just going off the top of my head, so I said "I think" (as best I recall) but I will double check anyway. Not wrong re the Megrez, I was aware of that, but I couldn't find anything online other than people waiting, hence the little quip. My contacts within Milk-V (as I wholesale) aren't saying much on it either. I should have an O6 soon to test, which will be a lot of fun, and probably become a daily-use board (running containers, if not a desktop). Nothing on the upcoming AX65? Looks very exciting to me! Cheers

@@PlatimaTinkers SiFive would never in a million billion years ship any core with RVV draft 0.7.1. They have been a major force in firstly making RVV 1.0 as gratuitously incompatible as possible (rearranged the `vtype` CSR fields, make `tail agnostic` write all 1s to the tail (if not undistubed) while 0.7.1 writes all 0s to the tail, etc etc and than also being a prime force in trying to prevent 0.7.1 support getting upstreamed into gcc and Linux kernel.

Hahaha yes that would be so bloody good!

summer there, so barefoot on a steel pipe ....

​@@jyvben1520smart!

Hey mate nah not glued, I just placed them there for show - if you watch it, I pick them up throughout the video. Considering some storage wall for them though. And no ground harness needed 😊

@@jyvben1520 Hah yeah pretty much!

Hey yeah it's an old force of habit, but I think technically they are still different. I do `sudo su -` so that I load the root users profile too, as I often have a different bashrc or even screenrc. A quick test seems to show `sudo -s` or similar inherits the current user environment? But then from the man pages it looks like I could just do `sudo -i`. That's if sudo is not deprecated shortly 😅

Many thanks mate!

Hahah yeah I like Vic, I fly over once a year, but I hate winters there. Had an ankle reconstruction living in South Yarra. Bastard of a place on crutches in winter haha.

Absolutely seconded! I also wish they made a 1RU version!

Wut? 😕 Righto, mr Bot!

Hey mate, as per the description and video I'm using TrueNAS 24.04, and yeah most of my shares are SMB/CIFS but I may split out an iSCSI target for one of my other hosts.

"I get that you're a young bloke getting started, so I'm not going to beat you up on this. lol" <- Hahahha. Best not to make assumptions, "mate". To give you some background, since you're new around these parts; I own five ICT-related companies, have worked in the industry for nearly 20 years, and am a senior systems engineer who looks after dozens if not hundreds of Linux and Windows servers and VM hosts, many with large flash or spinning DAS and NAS arrays over both copper and fiber, for local govt and enterprise. I am very well aware of how RAID arrays work, and I'm also most certainly not a "young bloke getting started" by any stretch of the imagination. I am very well aware of the heatsink concerns. As I stated in the video, it's a bodge job because the one I had ordered weeks ago has not yet arrived. I explained that in more detail in one of the other comment replies, along with giving an overview of how it's performing from a thermal standpoint given that. In short; it's performing perfectly fine. I am using ZFS, with RAIDZ1, so I've got the redundancy I need. The WAN connection here is 100Mbps symmetrical fibre, and I replicate it all offsite to my home which is 100/40Mbps copper. It just rsyncs nightly so I have another copy in case of fire/theft/flood etc. Negative comments never put me off. People are very welcome to think what they want regardless of how well informed they are - as you have quite clearly - and yeah I learned a lot about TrueNAS from this, as I'd never used it before. The last time I touched it was back in the FreeNAS days. Everything else I'm quite familiar with, hence explaining different aspects of it and reasoning for my decision in the video. For what it's worth for you; I make these videos for my own entertainment. In the five years or so I've had content on RUclips, and even running the associated ecomm site, I've never taken a single dollar in profit. It either goes to giveaways, improving the quality of the content, or other related educational and community aspects. Re the drive type; SMR is perfectly fine for RAID arrays, but, the performance can be hindered depending on your use case, and of course it depends on the actual array type and configuration too. In my instance, I am primarily reading large BRAW files that are from 50-500GB ea, and then writing smaller MOV files after editing, so suits SMR would not likely be a problem. That all being said and done, both the WD Purples I had before, and the HC560s I'm using now, are CMR, so your point here is kind of moot. Regarding the performance, I also covered this in the video, and in some other comments, but long story short it bursts at 9.9Gbps when serving from ARC, bursts at just over 1Gbps when serving from L2ARC, and sustained read and writes are about 500MB/s depending on if it's reading from the inner or outer parts of the platters (475-525MB/s roughly). This exceeds my requirements, and even my expectations, giving plenty of headroom for future growth if we move from 6K to 8K filming or similar. Thank you for the thumbs up, however, you're very welcome to change that to a thumbs down if you feel the need after reading this reply. It'd match the thumbs down I have given your comment for jumping to conclusions with minimal reasoning, if any at all. I also want to thank you for the input either way, it is appreciated, and your comment may be helpful for others that are less familiar or for aspects of it like SMR vs CMR and the use cases that I skipped in the video, given it's slightly out of scope. Take care.

Hey mate yeah I quite like the X99 / Haswell / Haswell EP range - old, same as the X520 NICs I guess - but just when all the tech needed in average virtualisation comes in like SR-IOV, etc. I've got some 1U server coolers, but getting air flow through them without a plastic baffle sucks. The one I cut down was a 2U, as I've got piles of them from retired servers. The one I ordered from AliExpress will be a perfect fit, but they've now refunded me as it was lost in transit it seems 😑 This works for now anyway, as it's not under heavy load. Will look into HexOS, cheers for that!

Yeah I considered it, but that would only give me 20TB of space, which I'd nearly max out. RAID5 gives me enough throughput that my editing won't be interrupted, so for the additional space and same level of redundancy I'm happy with that 😊

For OP's use-case, with only 3-5 drives, I'd go with zraid1 instead of using mirrored drives, but yeah, ZFS is a way better choice.

@@theantipope4354 Very correct here. I have it setup as ZRAID1, and most of my use is big (50-500GB) sequential read/writes.

Very true, but I am guessing you skipped some of the video - I had explained that it was ordered weeks ago, but had not turned up yet, so this was just to get by. And I do know and acknowledge the issue with the heat pipes - see the other comment. It sits about 60C under 30% load though, so still doing what's required. The Xeon is honestly overkill, but what I had spare hah. Cheers for your input though!

You're very welcome to your own opinion, even if it is wrong, but the cost is real with all links in the description, and the results work perfectly; 9973Mbps across the LAN 😘

Man you could even just read the description. I'm not going to respond positively with such a lazy comment.

@@PlatimaTinkers I read it, I says drive credit.. I don't know what that is or whether anyone else can get "credit" for the drives they buy

@@RetroBerner I explain that in the video. And yes some places to buyback. If you're not going to be positive in your comments, bugger off and waste someone else's time mate. I've not no interest in drama queens.

@@RetroBerner the credit is for selling old drives. I once got a house for 400 dollar. Sold my old house to cover the new house..

@CalmDandelion-eq5wt Sure.. but that doesn't mean the house cost $400.. your title is misleading at best, if I'm being generous. Yes, in the end you are into that build as much as you say, but the way it's worded would make any novice reading it think that that's what it would cost them.

Hah yeah, it was just all I had to finish the build, and I've ordered a replacement. Just better to have that jank thing than nothing at all. It's running well either way though; sits at 57C in ambient 32C with about 10% load, and it's peaked at 70C when it was under load. Even if not as good as factory, the copper still wicks heat upwards, the aluminium still spreads it, and the airflow dissipates it.

Oh man I was going to argue your point, but you're right that I completely forgot the PSU! A $9 cooler is negligible haha but yeah, turns out $400 USD by the end (I filmed in two parts of course). I have updated the title and put the costs breakdown in the description. I based that on my actual costs too, not the current costs - which would be cheaper. Also yes you're absolutely right about the drives, however, these are 50-500GB BRAW and MOV files we're working on, typically BRAW ingested onto the NAS from the USB-C SSD after filming, then read during editing (local render cache on the editing machine), and then exported to MOV back on the NAS, thus the purples were actually a very good fit for it. At least from a cost effective standpoint. The random reads are very minimal. The unfortunate side is that with 3-4 drives in RAID5 you're only going to see a ~25% improvement, so getting 220MB/s with bursts up to about 265MB/s is the best you can expect from RAID5 of WD Purples. Moving to RAID5 of these Ultrastars though, by the same math, then gives ~365MB/s with bursts of ~435MB/s. We've of course got the SSD cache and RAM cache in front of that with ZFS, so even more gains 👌

Ain't wrong my friend, but as mentioned in the video they are still wicking heat quite well - just not as well as they could with the vapour/liquid cycle. And as mentioned, I have ordered a better one (link in the description). Better to have a busted heatsink than none at all, and it appears to be running well - has not exceeded 70C and sits about 57C.

Yeah I couldn't find an X99 board that was ITX and had both 4 RAM slots and 6+ SATA ports. Space was definitely the issue; would have had to give up the X520 to put in a RAID controller otherwise.

@@PlatimaTinkers Asrock EPC612D4I has 4 sodimm DDR4 but it's expensive What's current idle power draw ?

@@sybreeder86 Yeah but then it only has 4x SATA ports (not enough) and no M.2 for the OS drive 😅 Will stick a meter on it and measure the power draw when I've finished moving the ~17TB of content over!

@@sybreeder86 Idle drawing 77.9W (0.366A @ 239.5V). Booting / under load it was drawing 97.5W. Pretty good IMHO

@@PlatimaTinkers for me R730XD with e5 2673 v4 and 128gb ram and mellanox 2x25gb nic and 3 SSD in Raid5 and 3xhdd in raid5 draws 112w idle with fan set to 10% But more importantly i have some concerns especially regarding dishs 1. 3x 20 TB for Raid5/z1 is dangerous. Even wit h16-18TB RAID6/Z2 is recommended. Rebuild might take too long. 2. when you cut that heatsink fluid that was in in the headpipe most likely evaporated so it won't heat properly 3. with that low amount of ram (8gb) and even with 32GB ZFS L2ARC cache won't be properly used. L2ARC Still uses ram for cache managment. It's better to just don't have L2ARC at all especially with low amount of RAM. To some degree it will work but most likely L2ARC might not be used at all due to low ram.

You need a board with 4x4x4 bifurcation. Lenovo p520 with nvme pci card will do the trick. Low power

consumer boards/cpus do not have enough pci-e lanes for a proper all-flash storage. you will have to be in the xeon/epyc territory and that's where things get very expensive and much bigger in size. there are some off the self flash storage from asus iirc, but the cost is high and performance is not nearly good enough to justify it.

@@giornikitop5373 A 2011 socket xeon has 40 cpie lanes and is very affordable with the chinese motherboards like in the video. Or if sata ssd speeds are enough for you, you can pretty much use any motherboard cpu combo.

Yeah that's a bit more specialty. You could do it, disregarding the link saturation you'd hit, but you'd not be getting the best throughput you could - you'd just be getting the great random read and IOPS. I have seen boards designed for it, but honestly do not recall them right now. If you were to use this board for it, since it has the PCIe 3.0 x16 slot, you'd want to just use the 2x 2.5GbE onboard, and then put a flash RAID controller in. Probably looking about $150 AUD for that.

@@PlatimaTinkers sounds like maybe it wouldn't be the worst idea to go with SATA SSDs if I don't need the super-high-bandwidth-per-disk from NVMe. I'm thinking much more about durability than performance here (performance is just a nice side benefit).

Yeah I probably should. To be honest, it's pretty basic, but I decided to install Scale instead of Core, so I can use the VMs in it. Given I have 8 cores / 16 threads, I'm going to replace the RAM with 2x 16GB modules and move some Docker instances over.

Hahah thank you mate, much appreciated. And yeah pretty awesome board, a LOT of potential. I did a 2nd video touching on some ideas I have for it too 🤘

Yeah all the PCB schematics are actually available on the Orange Pi website as best I know. Else check out any Radxa CM5 or the official Raspberry Pi CM5 schematic. The boards themselves aren't hugely complicated, the main intricacies would be impedance-matched and terminated traces for the high speed I/O, likely a PCIe switch, and then network PHY and maybe USB controller.

My friend I don't think I can give you a proper answer here, as that question is very loaded. NAS is Network Attached Storage, so yes, it basically is already since it has a network port and runs Samba. Can you plug a pile of HDDs into it? No.

@@PlatimaTinkers That's what I was wondering. Thanks!

@@alessandrofonseca7796 NP!

Hah no idea hey. Most revenue is going back into the shop stock right now, so could maybe do less in cash like $150 USD, or more in shop credit like $300 USD Would have to be damn good though, and include all assets! Can always provide inspiration etc, as I know a few I like. Feel free to flick me an email!

@@PlatimaTinkers Will do the needful, sir.

🤘🤘

Yeah so I've learned a bit more and used it since then too. The terms can be slightly confusing! So Bianbu Linux is the BSP for all uses. It has all the drives etc. There is then Bianbu, which is the desktop or server OS, based on Bianbu Linux, and they also do a NAS and OpenWRT set of images based on the BSP. In my testing of the SpacemiT MUSE Book, you'll see if try the GPU a bit more, and have mixed results. Honestly whatever image / configuration the MUSE Pi had was the best, I'll have to go back and check that. The MUSE Card was not too good, and the MUSE Book I had the best results with Bianbu 1.0.15 after some Chromium tweaks.

Oooh nice. What brains did yours have?

@@PlatimaTinkers rp2040-zero. Planning on swapping out for an esp32-c3 so I can use it for Bluetooth as well.

@@Zeloverevolution That's awesome, have you got a blog post or video about it?

My friend that is an excellent idea! I unfortunately cannot find an obs-cmd or similar command that does that though, so would have to hard-code it, but still doable! Definitely good thoughts for a revision/improvement. Cheers

@@PlatimaTinkers did not mean obs profile, level 1 is for obs, 2 might be for kdenlive, 3 for tuxkart or ...

@@jyvben1520 Oooh okay yeah got you. Interesting idea!

Oh nice! Didn't consider using an RP2040 - keyboard library works fine? I'm definitely gong to have to print thinner keys and caps so I can label them too! RGB I kind of need for the status displays, but can definitely improve it by just making a single simple PCB that slots in I think.

@fgregerfeaxcwfeffece Are you making this available ??

Yeah had a back and forth, they figure it was dead dead. Eg perhaps one of the PCIe switches that links up to the comms was dead. Another arrived a week or two ago 😊😊

Because it does not need it, HOWEVER, you can get the Ultra Wifi model, or you can attach SPI wifi like an ESP-01S 😊

Yeah mate check my other videos :P (maybe it was a shorts, I forget)

@@PlatimaTinkers cool, looked at the short. The new version looks good. Any chance these can bee reflash to espresense without opening them up? Sorry I'm a bit of a noob on esp32 (just played around with one dev board)

@@Dude6978 Sorry for the brief response before; was still at work so rushing. Yeah mate absolutely; Athom stuff is all open source, and the new ones are actually pricks to open. You can order them with Tasmota or ESPHome on them, and both are very open and configurable platforms, but it's not hard to re-flash over-the-air if desired. I just have never needed to as I used ESPHome for all my stuff, connected to Home Assistant 😊

@@PlatimaTinkers nice all good! I might get a test unit and try. Basically just want something I can place around a few rooms so it knows where I am + plus where I left my phone 😂

@@Dude6978 Yeah definitely worth it. Especially for how cheap they are, and how much you can do with them once you've really gotten to know their make-up.

No worries noTZuck, very glad to hear!