[HN Gopher] Zima Board - Hackable Single Board Server
___________________________________________________________________
Zima Board - Hackable Single Board Server
Author : ta8645
Score : 21 points
Date : 2023-10-29 17:09 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.zimaboard.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.zimaboard.com)
| ta8645 wrote:
| No affiliation whatsoever, just thought this looked like an
| interesting and affordable product.
| skibz wrote:
| Oh dear... this is the last thing I needed to see after payday!
| sillywalk wrote:
| Interesting.
|
| Apollo lake, 2xGB Ethernet, mini DisplayPort, 2xSATA, 2/4/8GB
| RAM, 32GB eMMC, passively cooled. 6W TDP.
|
| Zima. I remember seeing that sign on Babylon 5.
| LudoTheGreat wrote:
| I've had a 832 for almost a year now and it's great, but I would
| not buy another one. You can find small form factor, business
| class PCs all day long on your market place of choice for the
| same price with better hardware. Install Debian and CasaOS on
| them and you have the same functionality with much better
| performance and probably more options to upgrade down the road.
| c_o_n_v_e_x wrote:
| This really irks me. We're calling a machine with a Celeron CPU a
| "server" now? And being expandable is now "hackable?"
| Narishma wrote:
| > We're calling a machine with a Celeron CPU a "server" now?
|
| What's wrong with that? A server can have any kind of CPU.
| c_o_n_v_e_x wrote:
| >What's wrong with that?
|
| Functioning as a server is a use case. Labelling the desktop
| / embedded grade hardware as server grade is false marketing
| in my my opinion. Celeron is a desktop or embedded grade CPU
| (as per Intel's own classification).
|
| >A server can have any kind of CPU.
|
| You can use any kind of CPU to "serve." From a hardware point
| of view, there are categories of CPUs that are classified as
| server grade with specific feature sets. Intel Atom (C
| series) and Xeon are server grade (again per Intel's
| classification). The lines between Intel's server and desktop
| grade CPUs used to be very clear, however they are blurring
| over time. For example, new Core series CPUs support ECC
| memory which used to be a server specific feature however
| they still lack RAS features.
|
| Xeons have support much more memory, have higher core counts,
| have ECC and RAS, support multi sockets, etc.
| T3OU-736 wrote:
| I planned to use the ZimaBoard as a small OpnSense platform.
| Sadly, the NICs are Broadcom which has an unhealthy tendency to
| fail in weird way when throughput is pushed (lucky enough that I
| have fiber Intarwebz, so Gig is not unreasonable). I am not
| alone, so it is not one-off. [1]
|
| The solution is use an Intel NIC off the PCIe slot exposed by
| ZimaBoard, but there isn't a decent bracket to hold it. There is
| a 3D printable design [2] (unaffiliated), but ehhh, as been
| pointed out, used small business PCs are plentiful.
|
| I went with a used Sophos SG115 rev.2 which uses Intel Pro/1000
| NICs, which works splendidly.
|
| [1]
| https://www.reddit.com/r/ZimaBoard/comments/12gij2d/zimaboar...
| [2] https://www.printables.com/model/215289-zimaboard-wall-
| mount...
| mt_ wrote:
| E-waste recycling.
| npace12 wrote:
| the only thing i can think seeing this is "you should go back to
| your strip malls and drink your Zimas and Smirnoff Ices"
| reverius42 wrote:
| Just bought one recently. Waiting for it to arrive and replace a
| giant desktop tower with a passive cooled 6w tiny thing.
___________________________________________________________________
(page generated 2023-10-29 23:01 UTC)