ZimaCube 6+1-bay NAS affords 2.5GbE, PCIe slots, with both Intel Processor N100 or Core i5-1235U SoC (Crowdfunding)

IceWhale Know-how, the corporate behind the road of ZimaBoard x86 SBCs, has now launched the ZimaCube (Professional) 6+1-bay NAS outfitted with both an Intel Processor N100 Alder Lake-N processor or a extra highly effective Intel Core i5-1235U Alder Lake-P CPU with extra 2.5GbE ports, PCIe enlargement slots, and M.2 sockets.

Each fashions help as much as six 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch SATA drives, help for M.2 NVMe SSDs, provide 2.5GbE networking, six USB ports, and a number of PCIe enlargement with both PCIe Gen3 (Processor N100) or PCIe Gen4 (Core i5-1235U) enabling the addition of a graphics card, high-speed community playing cards, and extra.

ZimaCube (Professional) specs:

• SoC
  • ZimaCube – Intel Processor N100 quad-core Alder Lake-N processor @ as much as 3.4 GHz (Turbo) with 6MB cache, 24EU Intel HD graphics @ as much as 750 MHz; TDP: 6W
  • ZimaCube Professional – Intel Core i5-1235U 10-core/12-thread Alder Lake U-Collection processor with 2x Efficiency cores @ 1.3/4.4GHz, 8x Environment friendly cores @ 0.9/3.3GHz, 12 MB Intel Good Cache, 80EU Iris Xe Graphics @ 1.2 GHz; PBP: 15W
• System Reminiscence
  • ZimaCube – 8GB DDR4 by way of 2x SO-DIMM sockets, upgradeable as much as 32GB
  • ZimaCube Professional – 16GB DDR5 by way of 2x SO-DIMM sockets, upgradeable as much as 64GB
• Storage
  • 256GB SSD for OS
  • 2x M.2 socket for NVMe SSDs onboard
  • ZimaCube Professional solely – Help for 4x extra NVMe SSDs
  • 6+1 drive bays with helps for
    • As much as 6x 2.5-inch SATA HDD or SSD or 3.5-inch SATA HDD
    • As much as 4x M.2 2280 NVMe SSDs by way of the additional bay
    • Help for RAID 0/1/5, or JBOD
• Networking
  • ZimaCube – 2x 2.5GbE RJ45 ports
    
  • ZimaCube Professional – 4x 2.5GbE RJ45 ports
    
• USB
  • ZimaCube – 4x USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports, 2x USB 2.0 ports, 1x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Kind-C port
    
  • ZimaCube Professional – 6x USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports. 2x Thunderbolt 4/USB4 ports
  • Inner USB system disk slot
• Growth
  • ZimaCube – PCIe Gen3 x4 slot
    
  • ZimaCube Professional – PCIe Gen4 x16 slot, PCIe Gen4 x4 slot
• Misc – 2x 80mm system followers
• Energy Provide – 220W ; enter: 100V to 240V AC @ 50/60Hz
• Dimensions – 240 x 221 x 220mm
• Weight – 5.4 kg

The NAS helps the corporate’s ZimaOS V1.1 software program in addition to TrueNAS and UnRAID and is appropriate with gadgets operating a variety of working methods together with Home windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android. The ZimaCube (Professional) ships with an adjunct pack, an AC energy wire, and a person handbook.

The corporate shares all data (even textual content) by way of photos and nonetheless didn’t handle to share a easy picture with the ports on the again of the machine, and all now we have is a low-resolution picture of the motherboard used for the Core i5-1235U NAS the place we will certainly see SO-DIMM sockets, PCIe slots, and guess among the different ports.

IceWhale Know-how simply launched the ZimCube (Professional) over the weekend on Kickstarter with a ~$10,000 funding goal, however they’ve already raised over $650,00 US from near 700 backers. Rewards begin at $500 for the ZimaCube and $900 for the ZimaCube Professional with out storage whereas the MSRP is anticipated to be $699 and $1,199 respectively. Some rewards with an NVIDIA Quadro RTX A2000 12GB GPU are additionally provided for video creators in addition to bundles with a number of NAS.  You’d additionally want so as to add about $38-$39 for transport and deliveries are anticipated to begin in March 2024.

Jean-Luc began CNX Software program in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, earlier than quitting his job as a software program engineering supervisor, and beginning to write day by day information, and opinions full time later in 2011.