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Brand | zimaboard |
Model Name | zimaboard832k |
Special Feature | single board server, 4k media server |
Frequency Band Class | Dual-Band |
Wireless Communication Standard | 802.11a/b/g/n/ac |
Compatible Devices | mini computer |
Frequency | 2.2 GHz |
Recommended Uses For Product | single board server for creator |
Included Components | 8G/32G 832 Single Board Server, SATA Cable, 12V/3A Power Adapter |
Connectivity Technology | Ethernet |
About this item
- World's First Hackable x86 Single Board Server - ZimaBoard is a low-cost single board server exclusively designed for makers, DIYers and geeks. Equipped with Intel Celeron N3450 Quad Core operating at 1.1GHz to 2.2GHz, it has both the expandability of an x86 single-board computer, and the appropriate power of a micro server, perfect for edge intelligence and smart home projects.
- PCIe x4, SATA 6.0 Gb/s & Dual Gigabit Ethernet Onboard - Fully customizable and expandable with onboard interfaces, PCIe x4 interface caters to a variety of user needs. Also, with a large number of PCIe accessories available in the market, you can easily extend your ZimaBoard setup with 2.5Gbe, NVMe NGFF SSD, WIFI dongle, XMOS/DAC module, and many more!
- Personal NAS, 4K Streaming Server, VPN Router & IoT Gateway - With ZimaBoard, you can setup a 4 Terabyte personal cloud in 5 minutes and no more monthly bills, configure a secure VPN to protect your digital footprint, tune your network with OpenWrt and , build a 4K media server that runs with Plex, share and collaborate with team members on your files, or upgrade your smart projects across different systems.
- Pre-installed CasaOS - A simple & elegant home cloud around Docker ecosystem, changing the way families view modern living. From photo and video storage to smart home device management, and encrypted communications, CasaOS is the one-stop ideal home cloud system to keep families safe and protected in the digital age. And zimaboard also compatible with OS like Linux(default)/ Windows / OpenWrt / / Android / Libreelec.
- Package Includes:1x ZimaBoard 832, 1x SATA Cable, 1x 12V/3A Power Adapter; Any questions, please email us by click the "zimaboard" or contact us with zimaboard offical site,We are always ready to listen to you.
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Product Dimensions | 5.46 x 3.2 x 1.37 inches |
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Item Weight | 1.96 pounds |
ASIN | B0BKL7YPBQ |
Item model number | ZMB832 |
Customer Reviews |
4.3 out of 5 stars |
Best Sellers Rank | #15,956 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics) #2 in Computer Servers |
Date First Available | October 26, 2022 |
Manufacturer | zimaboard |
Country of Origin | China |
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ZimaBoard is World’s First Hackable Single Board Server
The idea of ZimaBoard came from a robot character from the episode “Love Death and Robots”. For the team, it stands as a self-speaking symbol of creation, a symbol of art, a symbol of power, a symbol of life and death, and a symbol of new species.
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What is ZimaBoard ?
Single Board Server for Creators
ZimaBoard is a low-cost single board server exclusively designed for makers and geeks. It has both the expandability of an x86 single-board computer (SBC), and the appropriate power of a micro server.
PCIe x4 Onboard - Fully Customizable and Expandable
Expandability is the core of ZimaBoard's design concept.
It packs with an onboard PCIe x4 interface as PCIe is the major physical interface that caters to a variety of user needs. Also, with a large number of PCIe accessories available in the market, you can easily extend your ZimaBoard setup with 2.5Gbe, NVMe NGFF SSD, WIFI dongle, XMOS/DAC module, and many more!
Personal Cloud
- Up to 36TB Storage Space
- 100MB/sec Write Speed
- 0 Recurring Fee
ZimaBoard allows you to easily expand to 36TB disk space (2 x SATA) as your data grows. Enjoy fast reading and writing experience just like your local hard disk when connected via gigabit network.
Software Router
- OpenWRT Compatible
- pfSense Compatible
- 6W TDP
With its superior compatibility offered by the x86 chipset, you can turn ZimaBoard into a hardware router. Create secure VPN connection, run lightweight services like FTP Server, BitTorrent Client, perform Traffic-Shaping and QoS, or even set up a private access to your office computer.
Plex Media Server
- 0TB-36TB Capacity
- 4K/60Hz Streaming
- Transcoding Yes
With the Plex Media Server installed on ZimaBoard, get all your media organized, stream your favorite collections of movies, TV shows anywhere on all your devices, and enjoy millions of high-resolution tracks via Tidal. Transforming the way you browse and enjoy your personal media library.
File Share & Collaboration
- Nextcloud Compatible
- Self-hosting Compatible
- GDPR Compliant
Boost your teamwork seamlessly on documents and spreadsheets in a protected environment. With ZimaBoard, you can set up a large-volume shared disk right at home or in the office. Edit your videos, photos, and documents with others on multiple systems in real-time.
Personal Cloud
Software Router
Plex Media Server
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ZimaBoard FAQ’s
Q:Does the power supply support 110v?
No. We recommend that you use the official 12V/3A power adapter for ZimaBoard.
Q:Does ZimaBoard support a single 8T hard drive??
ZimaBoard can be expanded to 36TB HDD (2x18TB) via two SATA ports onboard. Please note that external power supply for 3.5inch HDDs will be needed as power supply from the ZimaBoard could be insufficient
Q:Does SSH need to go into the server and open the port itself?
SSH is opened by default
ZimaBoard 832 Kit | PCIe to 5 Port SATA III Adapter | PCIe to NVMe SSD Adapter | PCIe to Dual Port 2.5G Ethernet Adapter | AX210 WiFi 6E PCIe Card | |
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Use for | Single Board Home Server | SATA Adapter | NVME Adapter | Ether Adapter | Wifi Adapter |
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Customers like the quality, ease of use, and value of the networking router. They mention that it's well made, allows for fast and easy file sharing, and is a good single board PC for server. That said, some complain about the power. Opinions are mixed on performance.
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Customers are satisfied with the quality of the networking router. They mention that it is well-made, solid, and has stayed up without a hitch. Some say that it would be a great single board PC for a server. Overall, most are happy with the product's quality.
"...It has a bigger footprint than the RasPi, but it's still tiny. Quality is far nicer than I expected at this price point, and it feels heavy and solid..." Read more
"...I do really like it for my application and it's much nicer construction quality than other cheap Mini PCs...." Read more
"It’s a good single board PC for how server but I think they should include 2.5G instead of 1G ports since people are going to use it mostly for..." Read more
"Pretty good quality well made, nice design a little bit expensive; the device was bought to be used as a firewall, pfsense was installed and work..." Read more
Customers find the networking router easy to use. They mention that it runs amd64 architecture and allows for fast and easy file sharing across both machines on a private network.
"...It seems snappy, and my benchmarking confirms it: The ZimaBoard is much faster, and it runs amd64 architecture which is nice...." Read more
"...The NIC is fast enough to stream 1080p media to another device for decoding, but it can't keep up the video decoding itself (missing audio aside)...." Read more
"Great unit to slow" Read more
Customers are satisfied with the value of the networking router. They mention that it is a good bang for the buck, and is cheaper than RPi. Some appreciate the nice design, but find the device a little bit expensive.
"...Very good bang for the buck and am very happy with it, even though i did end up getting rid of the stock operating system in favor of pure debian." Read more
"...They're cheaper than RPi and far more useful.I wish I'd tried one sooner." Read more
"Pretty good quality well made, nice design a little bit expensive; the device was bought to be used as a firewall, pfsense was installed and work..." Read more
Customers are mixed about the performance of the router. Some mention that it works well, is very silent, and has a remote desktop that works extremely well. They say it runs non-stop without a single issue. However, others say that it crashing over and over and gets into a weird state.
"...Turns out, the ZimaBoard is as rugged as it looks, and the passive heatsink does its job, even in the heat." Read more
"...a small switch, they've been running for a few months now non-stop without a single issue. I even forget they're even there since it's so quiet...." Read more
"...They're cheaper than RPi and far more useful.I wish I'd tried one sooner." Read more
"...2. Sometimes Zima gets into a weird state and will not power on. Plugging in the power cable makes the power light flash once and turn off...." Read more
Customers are dissatisfied with the power of the router. They say it's underpowered, weak for serious projects, and too expensive for simple projects. Some say the storage is not reliable and started failing after a month.
"...The bulk of tech support is through Discord only and it's very poor, plus no solutions are saved or browsable for future use given the fleeing..." Read more
"Too weak for serious projects, and too expensive for simple projects." Read more
"...wanted to like this little device, but in the end it simply isn't very good for my needs...." Read more
"The onboard storage is not reliable, started failing after a month...." Read more
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It seems like the ZimaBoard would be comparable to the Raspberry Pi 4, but as much as I love the RasPi and the company's mission, the ZimaBoard is really in a different league. It seems snappy, and my benchmarking confirms it: The ZimaBoard is much faster, and it runs amd64 architecture which is nice. It has a bigger footprint than the RasPi, but it's still tiny. Quality is far nicer than I expected at this price point, and it feels heavy and solid. So far so good. It appears that this will be a great little headless server, and might even have enough grunt for desktop use.
UPDATE 07/23/2023:
It's summertime and my ZimaBoard has stayed up without a hitch, even in an environment without air conditioning. This week I moved 7TB of data through it with rsync, which caused a continuous load of about 35% CPU usage for 24 hours, and it handled the task, no problem. And this was during a heat wave with 100°F (~38°C) daytime temps. Once the CPU nears 50°C it throttles down, keeping temps in check, and without much performance hit in my case. Turns out, the ZimaBoard is as rugged as it looks, and the passive heatsink does its job, even in the heat.
Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2023
It seems like the ZimaBoard would be comparable to the Raspberry Pi 4, but as much as I love the RasPi and the company's mission, the ZimaBoard is really in a different league. It seems snappy, and my benchmarking confirms it: The ZimaBoard is much faster, and it runs amd64 architecture which is nice. It has a bigger footprint than the RasPi, but it's still tiny. Quality is far nicer than I expected at this price point, and it feels heavy and solid. So far so good. It appears that this will be a great little headless server, and might even have enough grunt for desktop use.
UPDATE 07/23/2023:
It's summertime and my ZimaBoard has stayed up without a hitch, even in an environment without air conditioning. This week I moved 7TB of data through it with rsync, which caused a continuous load of about 35% CPU usage for 24 hours, and it handled the task, no problem. And this was during a heat wave with 100°F (~38°C) daytime temps. Once the CPU nears 50°C it throttles down, keeping temps in check, and without much performance hit in my case. Turns out, the ZimaBoard is as rugged as it looks, and the passive heatsink does its job, even in the heat.
I can't find a way to message the shipper but this was sent in an unsealed box. The label put on the outside but not taped. I am grateful it arrived safely but anyone could have just opened it and took anything out of the box. There is zero sealing on it. I am just asking to please put 1 piece of tape on the opening.
2 or 3 of these can run Windows Server 2019 or Server 2022 as ADDC/DNS for a small company. I load-tested 2 of them running Windows 2019 with 400 users hitting the Zimaboard simulating logins and they didn't break a sweat, CPU usage hovered around 30% on the primary and 22% on the second. No heat issues. Highly recommended
There's a couple of important issues to know about using the ZimaBoard in a Windows 10 Pro (64-bit) environment, though some of these points are common to any OS:
1. Wake on LAN is not supported. This is because the ZimaBoard uses the aging and buggy Realtek RTL8168 chip. Windows 10 will only let you install the Realtek "rt640x64.sys" driver from 2015 that does not support Wake on LAN and no combination of any system setting or registry hacking will disable the automatic driver installation. This behavior overrides Realtek's driver installer too, so that won't work. There's no way to use modern Realtek NIC drivers, period. Maybe on Ubuntu it's better but I didn't try further.
2. Sometimes Zima gets into a weird state and will not power on. Plugging in the power cable makes the power light flash once and turn off. To fix this you have to disassemble the case and unplug the CMOS battery which is thankfully socketed, then power it up. I've observed this happens the most when any kind of sleep or hibernation feature turns on. If you didn't know this, you'd just think it was dead and return it as junk. Be sure to disable all sleep, hibernation, and power saving OS options to avoid this.
3. Because both wake on LAN and sleep/hibernation are broken the ZimaBoard can never operate in a low power mode. You can experiment with throttling controls (easier to do in Ubuntu) to try to make it as slow as possible but the power savings don't come close to supporting real sleep/hibernation. Consider the ZimaBoard to be an always-on PC and budget electricity and heat for it accordingly (the heatsink does get quite warm when active, when idle it's warm to the touch but not overly so).
4. Out of the box both CasaOS and Windows 10 assume hibernation works which means your device will turn off after 30 minutes and never turn on again until you cycle the power and/or the CMOS battery connection. It's a big "gotcha" for new users that is very poorly documented by the ZimaBoard makers.
5. ZimaBoard is billed as "hackable" but is NOT open source. There are no schematics available, no documentation that I could find for any of the connectors, no listing of the components used unless you want to physically take it apart and look at all the chips. The documentation that is available is very poor, sparse, and only focuses on the most superficial applications like media streaming.
6. There is no internal sound device and no audio output over the mini Display Port connector. It has a "Intel Apollo Lake SoC - High Definition Audio Controller" peripheral but doesn't expose any output device for applications to use. You'll have to add a USB or PCIe sound device and connect it externally through an analog output. There's also no built-in Wi-Fi or bluetooth. So budget the two USB ports carefully.
Now despite all that it worked for my application; I connected the two Ethernet ports directly to two different Windows 10 computers and use the ZimaBoard to share a 500GB SSD to both devices, mapped as a network drive. This allows for fast and easy file sharing across both machines on a private network that isn't online. In addition Remote Desktop works extremely well so you can administer the system with no monitor, keyboard, or mouse attached. I'm really pleased that it met this specific need so perfectly. Not happy about the lack of sleep/hibernation though.
The ZimaBoard concept is cool, and they have an almost-good idea. It needs a substantially better NIC chipset, more documentation, and needs to feel less like a Kickstarter project that died after they shipped the product. The bulk of tech support is through Discord only and it's very poor, plus no solutions are saved or browsable for future use given the fleeing nature of Discord. It took a lot of searching to find information that they should just be throwing on to a wiki somewhere.
The NIC is fast enough to stream 1080p media to another device for decoding, but it can't keep up the video decoding itself (missing audio aside). Likewise it performs well when the desktop is in 1080p but lags considerably when in 4K.
I can't really recommend the ZimaBoard unless your use case is very similar to mine and you don't mind the caveats I described. I do really like it for my application and it's much nicer construction quality than other cheap Mini PCs. It has a lot of potential as a NAS or other network device.
Included are screenshots of system info from CPU-Z and HWINFO so you can see the system specs.
Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2023
There's a couple of important issues to know about using the ZimaBoard in a Windows 10 Pro (64-bit) environment, though some of these points are common to any OS:
1. Wake on LAN is not supported. This is because the ZimaBoard uses the aging and buggy Realtek RTL8168 chip. Windows 10 will only let you install the Realtek "rt640x64.sys" driver from 2015 that does not support Wake on LAN and no combination of any system setting or registry hacking will disable the automatic driver installation. This behavior overrides Realtek's driver installer too, so that won't work. There's no way to use modern Realtek NIC drivers, period. Maybe on Ubuntu it's better but I didn't try further.
2. Sometimes Zima gets into a weird state and will not power on. Plugging in the power cable makes the power light flash once and turn off. To fix this you have to disassemble the case and unplug the CMOS battery which is thankfully socketed, then power it up. I've observed this happens the most when any kind of sleep or hibernation feature turns on. If you didn't know this, you'd just think it was dead and return it as junk. Be sure to disable all sleep, hibernation, and power saving OS options to avoid this.
3. Because both wake on LAN and sleep/hibernation are broken the ZimaBoard can never operate in a low power mode. You can experiment with throttling controls (easier to do in Ubuntu) to try to make it as slow as possible but the power savings don't come close to supporting real sleep/hibernation. Consider the ZimaBoard to be an always-on PC and budget electricity and heat for it accordingly (the heatsink does get quite warm when active, when idle it's warm to the touch but not overly so).
4. Out of the box both CasaOS and Windows 10 assume hibernation works which means your device will turn off after 30 minutes and never turn on again until you cycle the power and/or the CMOS battery connection. It's a big "gotcha" for new users that is very poorly documented by the ZimaBoard makers.
5. ZimaBoard is billed as "hackable" but is NOT open source. There are no schematics available, no documentation that I could find for any of the connectors, no listing of the components used unless you want to physically take it apart and look at all the chips. The documentation that is available is very poor, sparse, and only focuses on the most superficial applications like media streaming.
6. There is no internal sound device and no audio output over the mini Display Port connector. It has a "Intel Apollo Lake SoC - High Definition Audio Controller" peripheral but doesn't expose any output device for applications to use. You'll have to add a USB or PCIe sound device and connect it externally through an analog output. There's also no built-in Wi-Fi or bluetooth. So budget the two USB ports carefully.
Now despite all that it worked for my application; I connected the two Ethernet ports directly to two different Windows 10 computers and use the ZimaBoard to share a 500GB SSD to both devices, mapped as a network drive. This allows for fast and easy file sharing across both machines on a private network that isn't online. In addition Remote Desktop works extremely well so you can administer the system with no monitor, keyboard, or mouse attached. I'm really pleased that it met this specific need so perfectly. Not happy about the lack of sleep/hibernation though.
The ZimaBoard concept is cool, and they have an almost-good idea. It needs a substantially better NIC chipset, more documentation, and needs to feel less like a Kickstarter project that died after they shipped the product. The bulk of tech support is through Discord only and it's very poor, plus no solutions are saved or browsable for future use given the fleeing nature of Discord. It took a lot of searching to find information that they should just be throwing on to a wiki somewhere.
The NIC is fast enough to stream 1080p media to another device for decoding, but it can't keep up the video decoding itself (missing audio aside). Likewise it performs well when the desktop is in 1080p but lags considerably when in 4K.
I can't really recommend the ZimaBoard unless your use case is very similar to mine and you don't mind the caveats I described. I do really like it for my application and it's much nicer construction quality than other cheap Mini PCs. It has a lot of potential as a NAS or other network device.
Included are screenshots of system info from CPU-Z and HWINFO so you can see the system specs.
Up until now, I've been buying NUC devices for the home lab, but I have to seriously rethink that once I tried this computer.
They're cheaper than RPi and far more useful.
I wish I'd tried one sooner.
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Installando proxmox e se hai una solida conoscenza linux, puoi crearti la tua infrastruttura aziendale in casa e forse anche piu efficiente della maggior parte delle infrastrutture aziendali italiane!
I like that its packaged in a housing already with passive cooling through large fins. The board has a PCIe slot, 2 sata ports and 2 USB ports for expansion and storage. The board also has 2 ethernet ports, So perfect for making your own router. Low TDP means no real impact on your power bill
CasaOS is pretty easy to use. Most of the common applications are easy to download right from the included app store. You can dive into terminal and get real advanced into everything. I dont care for linux all that much so im gonna try installing windows are some point, Which you can because its a intel x86 processor and not a ARM like all the various pi's