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Wholy jeebus @CanadianGuy you went into detail there! From one Canadian Guy to another, I really appreciate it! So yeah it seems the trasncoding part is where it might not fit my use case. That and the lack of power signal to the PSU. That's definitely a point I completely overlooked. I'm looking for something a bit more stable than a paperclip😆 The battery issue would be fine for me as I just bought a UPS last week due to losing a drive after many outages, but still just a bit too inconvenient. Hmmm I think for me the pros may be weighing slightly in favour of keeping my Silverstone Media PC case and just popping a new mobo and cpu in. I have an old LGA 1150 which would be newer than the AMD FX6300. Will need to look for a new CPU to put in it though as I only have a G1840 2-core from when it was mining. Maybe I can find a 4670 to put in it so I have more juice for VMs. That way I can keep my GTX 1060 for transcoding too. But yeah so much for lower power consumption! Though power is pretty cheap here. Again thanks for the thorough review. I'm sure this will help out at least a couple people who may be thinking of using the Zimaboard. I might pick one up for a media streamer or just to tinker with. We'll see! Cheers! 🍁🏒

Thanks @trurl! I'm glad to see the JMicron JMB585 on there as it's the one Zimaboard has in their store for cheaper than I can get it on amazon. But also nice to see cards that have even MORE ports 🤔

Hi all, I'm looking to rebuild my Unraid server soon and was looking into low-cost, low-power options that would still give me the ability to use a couple small docker images. Mainly: 1. Plex server 2. Deluge downloader 3. Nextcloud 4. MAYBE a single, low powered web server VM for my Magic Mirror instance. Or maybe I can move that to a docker web server. The Zimaboard looks mighty tempting! Less power, no fans, less hardware to fail, less price... It looks slick for like $200 plus shipping! The top end board the ZimaBoard 832 features: CPU: Intel N3450 - 4 Cores - 1.1GHz base frequency - 2.2GHz Burst - 2MB L2 cache GPU: 200MHz Base Frequency - 700MHz Burst RAM - 8GB LP-DDR4 Storage: 32GB eMMC 5.1 TDP: 6W LAN: 2x Gigabit Ethernet USB: 2x USB 3.0 Display: 1x Mini-DisplayPort Transcoding: 1080P video Decoding: H.264 (AVC), H.265 (HEVC), MPEG-2, VC-1 I wouild then add a PCIe SATA port expansion to get as many spinning disks in there as possible (will likely need to add a PSU and a bit of cooling). I'm hoping to get my 7 drives in, but will settle for 5. I'm mostly curious of anyone's experiences either good or bad. I read a single post by @CanadianGuy who was looking for SATA expansion support. If all works out I may even use it to replace my Ubiquiti EdgeRouterX one day and maybe one for a small streaming box. We'll see! Thanks all. Have a great one!