How efficient can I build the 100% Arm NAS?

So its not a cake?

I like how you don’t pretend the video isn’t sponsored because no cash changed hands - integrity move!

Hey Jeff, It's Mark (met you at the creator summit) So short story on that power switch.. the batch of switches we had in production were not consistently terminated by our supplier. I ended up making a batch of power switch testers for our production guys to use once I found out about this. I'm pretty sure that your unit was one of the first off the line, so it looks like it got through before we knew about the supplier issue. Wouldn't be something we'd see on a full build, as they would have used the power switch mounted to the rear panel to test the system, but since your unit didn't include a mobo they would have used a drop in test bench motherboard. (which is a motherboard mounted to a sliding plate with its own power switch that we install in the back of the unit with enough IO options to accomodate all cabling possibilities offered). They have to leave the rear panel off when testing like this, the same rear panel that houses your untested power switch. 😅

This is my dream NAS. When this stuff starts showing up on eBay in a few years I'm going to be so happy.

As a homelabber, I would love to see more 3D printed items in a homelab environment. Lets face it, Homelabbing is about cramming enterprise tech into your house. Seems like 3D printing fits right in there.

The older I get, the more a appreciate the value of a workshop trolley when it comes to moving awkward and / or heavy kit around.

On the switch, you usually have NO - Normally Open, NC - Normally Closed, and C is actually Common, ie a changeover switch.

Jeff violated the first rule of system building, never close the case for your first boot, it's bad juju. ;) Actually another great video, love seeing unusual builds BTW Rocky is my favorite distro, I have several machines running it. Highly recommend!

AsrockRack also makes similar motherboards but with an AM4 socket, which I'm using in my own setup. Most or all of the desktop-class, non-APU AM4 CPUs support unregistered ECC. Turn on Eco mode in the BIOS and you've got a powerful, quiet, and efficient homelab/virtualization/storage server using a CPU recycled from your last-gen gaming rig.

There are many tech people out there, but I love your videos and your style. Honest, calm and professional. Thank you for the video!

I used to have an ARM NAS! It was called an Acorn Archimedes 😀 ran RISC OS in ROM and the network card had drivers in it’s ROM!

Never expected to get a refresher on what can go wrong with a pwrswtch today, but glad to see I am not the only person cursed with learning this the cursed way.

Hey Jeff, that 4 pin connector is for, standby, power on, power good and ground. It tells the power supply to turn on and makes sure everything is okay.

Definitely curious about your 3D printing adventures!

to reduce noise on my 15AV, installed noctua fans, and those spacers that offset the fans, and connected them to an aquacomputer fan controller

Very cool project. Awesome to see this system up and running.

love the full setup video, its very informational and shows the whole process of building and racking a server.

I'd be interested to see what you can accomplish once everything is all set up and you start playing with C-states, etc. to get the power usage down. Being a mere pleb I have been using Chinese x99 motherboards and cheap Xeons for my recent builds and have managed to do pretty well all things considered as I have only, so far, stood up a "do everything" server that serves as my NAS and home services. A dedicated low power secondary backup target as well as off-site cold storage is in the plans. Just not sure which direction i'm going to go. The new Arm stuff looks like fun but just too spendy for my use case. So either going to go with another Xeon or maybe an N5100 series cpu.

I have to present a project at the end of my apprenticeship. An ARM based NAS is exactly what I was looking for! Great idea! Thanks!👍

Awesome as always! Looking forward to the performance and testing!