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THIS is the NAS I’ve been waiting for! – IceWhale ZimaCube N100
THIS is the NAS I’ve been waiting for! – IceWhale ZimaCube N100 Review
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IceWhale has been making a bit of a name for themselves in the homelab community with low-power x86 SBCs for the last few years… the…
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I could have sworn when I looked up the N100, the ARK page said 2 channels…. Oh well, still hate being limited in capacity.
What about an Internal non propriatery powersuply? Or just placing the brick inside?
Also the EDisplay connector makes this Product also Planned obsolote. Like in 5Years I cant put another Mother board in to use as a NAS, I have to rely on ZIMA to provide new upgrades. I hate it and it makes this Ewaste in the future.
A little nitpick, 4 bonded connections technically can provide increased bandwidth for a single client, but it depends on a bunch of stuff as I'm sure you already know… In Linux land:
1. the bonding algorithm chosen – round robin transmit direction only
2. the receiver has a single NIC with a bandwidth greater than one of the sender's bonded links
3. the traffic doesn't traverse any aggregated crosslinks where a single link is less than the bonded bandwidth (unless these employ a round-robin algorithm)
Unfortunately truth in marketing takes second place to "bigger number sell more".
YES!!!! @8:46 Finally!!! A review that explains what the true "value add" of network interface bonding or LACP, CORRECTLY!!! Client to server, the bandwidth is only as fast as the single interface to the client (by default, src mac add). Sorry I've been drinking too!!!
According to NASCompares, IceWhale is working on a successor to CasaOS, called ZimaOS, to power the ZimaCube. Presumably, it will have more NAS capabilities.
“Now, I ain’t no n00b when it comes to Linux…” 🤣
I dont like the review, it was like some one is reading a book of Zimacube
No unboxing nothing, no setup or some basics
Imagine this thing was 2U rackmounted 😮
That corpo speak was just too on-point and super cringe
What is the Dropbox alternative the author mentions around 11:42? I can't make out the name
Great concept, badly executed!
Stop upgrading Zima so much!
At this rate, it'll start generating A.I. Art, then fly into outer space.
This is basically just a jonsbo n2
Why not just release a good NAS case and let us home lawyers figure it out? 45 drives hl15 is just too over priced
So you couldn't find a bottle or six of Zima to drink during this video?
I'm not much a fan of soldered CPUs either honestly. I understand it somewhat occasionally with laptops…not so much in prosumer gear.
no sfp no buy
Is there such a thing as a DAS+RAID controller over USB? I don't want to deal with an OS. All I want is to plug in a 6 bay box like this over USB to my desktop, laptop, raspberry PI, tablet, etc. I'll do all the sharing from which ever device I have the DAS mounted to.
The N100 can't be dual channel. Intel hamstrung it, that isn't Icewhale's fault
C$680 is kinda a tough pill to swallow esp for a N100. However I do wish IceWhale succeed with this product. Hopefully this will open the door to DIY motherboard from topton, erying with low power high performance laptop U series chips but with god tier expansion (6 sata, 2,5GbE, PCIe). The only place you could find 12th gen laptop i5 is on laptop or MiniPC and these certainly don't come with 6 SATA ports.
I think they are going in the right direction but a lot of work is needed, great video Jeff!
love your content thank you very much!
Just get a Synology and call it a day.
Channeling J K Simmons in the sponsor spot? 👌
All of their claims… don't hold up at all.
I'm thoroughly sure to stay the hell away from them
$700 = in this price i might get 45drive homelab thing
My brain goes like this 2 lan port = proxmox + firewall + nas
I was going to build another erying based server similar to the last nas one you build as my 3rd proxmox node, and was putting the parts together that I needed, when I came across the zima cube, and the 1235u version, seems like it would work nicely out of the box, but I'm a little concerned about the statements they're making, and not really answering questions lots of people are asking, like pcie bandwidth for the nvme's, and their latest block diagram for the pcie lane allocation. They said they were going to use a pcie switch, but then in the block diagram, it only shows the cpu lane allocation only. I've made a pre order pledge, but I'm not sure I'm going to go through with it unless I see better updates. It looks like it would be a fantastic device, but I'm just not sure it will be based on the flip flopping around on these questions.
The only thing I like about this is the case. External power supplies are cheap and easy to source compared to proprietary or sfx. While not necessary, not having ECC kills Truenas for me. Looks good though for those that run Unraid. 1200 for the 12 core as a solid Proxmox box is just too expensive.
Been looking forward to a review on one of these, was looking at the i5 version. My wallet hates me.
icewhale had a $1 for $100 off deal before the kickstarter campaign where you can knock off $100 to $200 off the price. i made a pledge and emailed them but no reply weeks later. so i cancelled my pledge. still no reply from them. it’s a scam until it’s an actual product. i’d rather wait until this is actually in stores instead of asking when my crowdfunding item will ship. it may cost a few hundred more but at least i won’t be risking not getting a product nor have my emails ignored. and i decided their overpriced cost then $1 savings was not worth my time or hassle. they obviously plan on keeping my $1 and not respond to any queries.
You tell it like it is.
a new mobo with intel 305 4×2.5gbe 6xsata 2xM.2 + PCIE… its very very cool for nas/server with vms
N100 and its bigger brother the i3-N305(i am super pissed its the same MSP as the i3-1315u, and you'll see why), are both limited to single channel, and several people have tested, these things get weird if you add more than 16GB.
Now, dont get me wrong, just because Intel's product page says it doesnt support more than 16GB doesnt mean you cant, but it seams Intel has added some firmware customer-phuckery to make your time with 32GB+ an unpleasant one.
Even i have tested the N100 with 32GB of RAM and it just acts weird, reminds me of when i had deployed ~100x i7-10700 with cheap motherboards and 3000MT/s RAM, if you added more than 1 stick the MCLK would run at like 1/4 speed and the machine would feel like it was running on a hard drive from the early 00s (one of them is now my firewall, the other is now an HTPC both dropped down to 8-16GB for stability/performance)
**As for why i am upset about the i3-N305
The i3-N305 and i3-1215u/1315u have the same $309 MSP
But the atom based i3 only has single channel memory artificially limited to 16GB and 9 PCIe 3.0 lanes
The Core based i3 processors support dual channel memory, theoretically up to 512GB once 128GB dimms come to the uDIMM form factor(supposedly this is where DDR5 will top out for nonECC)
but the real i3's also supports 20 lanes of PCIe gen4 and has…. what was it 4x the GPU performance
One could argue the N100 and N200 dont need 2 channels of DDR5, but the N305 sure does, it has double the cores and i think slightly better GPU
From what I've seen on Nascompare's Youtube channel he states that the green board is an early prototype board and that the black board with the extra pci slot will be part there at launch. He even received the new board from Icewhale to swap into his Zimacube. Look for the video Zimacube nas update to get the scoop.
if there was a standard for modular power connectors i'd say go with an internal PSU, if it goes bad, just swap in a new one.
But because anti-capitalistic practices run rampant and all of these PSU manufactures try to lock you into their ecosystem with proprietary connectors for a standardized cable, well an external brick is the only saine option that doesnt require you to re-wire the entire server.