Does EW have a social media presence? He’s a damn low-key badass. One of the best tech channels. Only a madman would throw a GPU at a zimaboard. Good stuff. Also, a video covering CasaOS would be great!
I can't think of a single thing I'd use this for beyond being a bastion host or something, but this is a fantastic review/roundup because it's detailed enough for me to actually figure that out 😀
I have a 2gb model w/ a usb pci expansion card. It’s a neat bit of kit. I’m currently running OPNsense with no issues with Realtek. Casa OS is pretty neat, too. Although I didn’t really use it. If I had to buy another, I’d get the 8gb.
With few tweaks this would be awesome little box. RAM slot(s), casing to have space for smaller pci cards and to housing to integrate drives for those sata ports. Essentially packaged into roughly like those external GPU boxes. Oh and deletion of especially that blinking sata ports and I would buy one instantly. Quite shame as it's almost what I wanted my old NUC to be, but with really bizarre hardware layout. I think there's definitely market for lowpower, compact, but still customizable hardware. I suppose vendors think that this bit niche target group will built their systems from ground anyway.
If I didn't already have two laptops with broken keyboards id definitely go zima board. X86 makes it actually useful. Love my pi but i can only use wrt instead of opensense.
I can't think of how anyone could do a better review of this product. I can determine from your review that this product is right for me for my NAS build. For my purposes, GPU use in this application is not important.
I don't know. Out of curiosity checked and pricing is quite reasonable imo. There's actually quite good bundles there too apparently. I just dislike the layout of the device. Like it's trying to cram too much features to small space. Like I find it very bizarre to have sleek casing and then bare pci card leeching it 😀 I'd rather have bigger casing to fit all possible extentions, like drives and that card. It just feels that if you plugin pci card to it, it would be all the same to strip zima out of casing too. Ok there's the heatsink but you know what I mean.
I have an HP Z640 workstation. It can host 4x NVME with the quad addon card. That's 4 drives. Then, Linus said that it can handle 9 drives and I'm assuming that's SATA (regular SATA)? So it can run 4 NVME and 9 SATA? You can get them old dual Xeon Zs for like $100. I wonder what you would do with one?
I haven't worked with that exact system, but it seems to have pretty good expansion. I have worked with other workstations from the big suppliers(Dell/HP/Lenovo). There generally pretty good, but typically not fully ATX. I'll probably make a video on one in the future.
So you recommend for proxmox? Looking to replace my rPi running docker. Build a large proxmox server but do kot what it on 24/7. And installing proxmox and having HA sounds great
Proxmox works pretty well on these. I’d just try to run as many services as containers instead of VMs to save ram. I have seen videos doing ha setups with these and that’s a cool setup, and is a lot cheaper and less power compared to big servers.
You can use software raid in your os to manage raid on the system. There might be the Intel chipset raid but I never tested it as I typically prefer software raid.
you don't need it - for the price you can get 2 refurbs both which will have more power and expandability - this is a case of a company bribing a poor youtuber to get exposure and free advertising
Does EW have a social media presence? He’s a damn low-key badass. One of the best tech channels. Only a madman would throw a GPU at a zimaboard. Good stuff.
Also, a video covering CasaOS would be great!
I agree, this dude rules. Promote this channel!
I can't think of a single thing I'd use this for beyond being a bastion host or something, but this is a fantastic review/roundup because it's detailed enough for me to actually figure that out 😀
I love your reviews man.
Keep it up.
Hey man, really appreciate your content. Keep doing awesome work!
I have a 2gb model w/ a usb pci expansion card. It’s a neat bit of kit. I’m currently running OPNsense with no issues with Realtek. Casa OS is pretty neat, too. Although I didn’t really use it.
If I had to buy another, I’d get the 8gb.
yeah let's talk about how easy CasaOS is for home use, nice video man 👌
Yeah, this guys got the answers I like that ❤
With few tweaks this would be awesome little box. RAM slot(s), casing to have space for smaller pci cards and to housing to integrate drives for those sata ports. Essentially packaged into roughly like those external GPU boxes. Oh and deletion of especially that blinking sata ports and I would buy one instantly. Quite shame as it's almost what I wanted my old NUC to be, but with really bizarre hardware layout. I think there's definitely market for lowpower, compact, but still customizable hardware. I suppose vendors think that this bit niche target group will built their systems from ground anyway.
If I didn't already have two laptops with broken keyboards id definitely go zima board. X86 makes it actually useful. Love my pi but i can only use wrt instead of opensense.
I can't think of how anyone could do a better review of this product. I can determine from your review that this product is right for me for my NAS build. For my purposes, GPU use in this application is not important.
Zima is pushing on all fronts - the fact that 100 youtubers show it, does not change it - it is what it is - nothing special and very expensive
Jup, totally agree!
They would definitely need to bring a version with the new N100 SoC. That would make it much more usable!
I don't know. Out of curiosity checked and pricing is quite reasonable imo. There's actually quite good bundles there too apparently. I just dislike the layout of the device. Like it's trying to cram too much features to small space. Like I find it very bizarre to have sleek casing and then bare pci card leeching it 😀
I'd rather have bigger casing to fit all possible extentions, like drives and that card. It just feels that if you plugin pci card to it, it would be all the same to strip zima out of casing too. Ok there's the heatsink but you know what I mean.
I have an HP Z640 workstation. It can host 4x NVME with the quad addon card. That's 4 drives. Then, Linus said that it can handle 9 drives and I'm assuming that's SATA (regular SATA)? So it can run 4 NVME and 9 SATA? You can get them old dual Xeon Zs for like $100. I wonder what you would do with one?
I haven't worked with that exact system, but it seems to have pretty good expansion. I have worked with other workstations from the big suppliers(Dell/HP/Lenovo). There generally pretty good, but typically not fully ATX. I'll probably make a video on one in the future.
So you recommend for proxmox? Looking to replace my rPi running docker. Build a large proxmox server but do kot what it on 24/7. And installing proxmox and having HA sounds great
Proxmox works pretty well on these. I’d just try to run as many services as containers instead of VMs to save ram. I have seen videos doing ha setups with these and that’s a cool setup, and is a lot cheaper and less power compared to big servers.
but can you order a zima with it
Does anyone know if the ZimaBoard currently runs RAID?
You can use software raid in your os to manage raid on the system. There might be the Intel chipset raid but I never tested it as I typically prefer software raid.
This is not a “server” product!
This is for the tech on the go so they can clone hard drives/SSDs with the smallest system and space!
Clinging drives is a good use case. I’ll probably keep one around for imaging drives.
you don't need it - for the price you can get 2 refurbs both which will have more power and expandability - this is a case of a company bribing a poor youtuber to get exposure and free advertising