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0:00 Intro
0:48 What is the ZimaCube Pro?
1:02 Hardware and IO
3:00 PCIe switching
4:02 ZimaOS…bleh
4:56 Let’s use Proxmox
5:56 Performance, thermals, and power
6:49 How I used it
7:15 How most people will see the ZimaCube
8:23 It’s not perfect…
8:49 Conclusion
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for 1k i think you can get a non mobile cpu, build a decent old system and get a used jbod for the storage.
it looks good, but just as other off the shelf solutions, it's not really cheap (considering most of the people running this would just backup files and run plex)
I am NOT a storage hoarder… I just want to have a backup of all human knowledge in case of zombies!
Nah…if was cheaper maybe
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
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.
$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 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.
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.
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