World's Smallest Unraid - 6W ZimaBoard - Emby, Home Assistant & pfSense
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2023
- In this video, I embark on a creating the World's Smallest Unraid Server. Using a single board computer - the ZimaBoard - this compact powerhouse consumes a mere 6W, making it both eco-friendly and efficient.
But don't let its size fool you. This tiny titan is fully equipped to handle a range of tasks. Dive in with me as I set up and demo Emby for media streaming, orchestrate smart home automation with Home Assistant, and fortify network security with a fully functional pfSense VM.
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clean build.
We've seen a lot of overkill builds over the years but now, I'd be interested to watch more content about power-efficient servers
Thanks. Glad you liked it. Yes I will be bringing a few videos with various low power usage servers to the table over the next few months. Thanks for watching :)
@@SpaceinvaderOne Talking of low power NAS's... have you backed the LincStationN1 campaign on IndieGoGo?
(Apart from the Zimaboard, I don't think you can get a Smaller, More Compact, Low Power UnRAID server)
I'm interested to hear your thoughts on the N1 and in particular on the Optimal All-SSD configuration for UnRAID!
i.e. I'm keen to keep the ability to Expand the array over time: Formatting all the SSD's as Hybrid ZFS would still have the lesser ZFS advantages, if not Bit-Rot/File-Integrity protection. Are there any remaining issues with UnRAID and SSD Trim and Parity Disks?
P.S. I'm aware that ZFS Expansion may (many many years later) be coming to production. But in could still be a long-while before it comes to UR, and if every Watt counts (e.g. when running off battery in a van) would UnRAID's option of powering down unused drives make much difference in load, compared to a ZFS Pool keeping all the Flash-Drives constantly working!
At $280 (on IGG) the N1 is only around $80 more than the ZimaBoard (with a case that includes storage for 2x 2.5 + 4x NVMe, a more modern/capable N5015 CPU/GPU, double the memory at 16GB... PLUS it includes a $59 UnRAID Basic licence!!! 😀
@@DerekGreen123 Do you have a link for this, as googling the terms you dropped doesn't immediately yield results
In the intro says “useful tutorials” when it should be “life saving” tutorials. Huge fan and amazing work thank you !
thankyou so much for watching and your kind comment. I am really glad that you find the videos useful :)
nice and clean setup. good job
Glad you think so! Thanks for watching :)
I hit like...just for the intro!
So cool! Keep em coming!!!!
Hey thanks. Glad you like it 😁
I've been using my ZimaBoard for an Unraid box since they launched on kickstarter. About a year now. Won't transcode plex very well but it will serve native media and run a few other dockers I use.
Good video and neat idea Ed! Thanks for always sharing with us💖👍😎JP
Glad you liked it. Thanks for watching 🙂
@@SpaceinvaderOne :) Your very welcome Ed! have a awesome weekend!😎JP
A discussion that I've had with a friend was about the fact that most small boards still have a 1Gbit Port instead of a 2,5Gbit or higher. For an internal network it would be nice to have higher bandwidth. But seeing that more motherboards get shipped with a 2,5Gbit port these days, I guess it's a matter of time before small boards will incorporate them as well.
Thanks for the video. What software are you using to monitor the power usage?
Awesome video, thank you ! I am looking to update my server made of old pc parts because it draws too much power for what is basically a Plex server.
The PCIE is great to add more disks but it would need a custom case to host 8 3.5 HDDs...
I love this build. I'd like to have a portable Unraid server that I could connect to my portable 5G modem/router so I can quickly setup a secure home lan in a hotel while streaming stuff to chromecast 4k with google TV instead of putting my login info into hotel smart TV. Sure I can run stuff in my laptop but small portable Unraid would be perfect for my use.
Hey Spaceinvader, Thanks again for this great Video! Now i need a zima board with 6 SATA and 2 M2 Slots. Think that is coming? :D
Yeah that would be great, I wish it would. We can add a sata card or hba card to the Zimaboards pcie slot and get more sata ports that way, but not 2 nvmes though.
They are releasing a new product called the zimablade that has socketed ram, but again no m.2 slot :(
OOH!!! Can you do proxmox and have passthru? Unraid with the PCI and external drives, AND OPNSense with either-net passthru?
Interesting vidoe. Have you done a tutorial setup of Home Assistant and pfSense? Would love to see both. Not sure I could figure out how to set them up, but I've done some of your other's so perhaps I could do those too. Really curious about doing pfSense. Good video as always!
for those interested in something like this with 10gbe the r86s and upcoming r86s-n are great tiny pcs for a cluster with 10gb (proxmox or the like)
Nice i will check them out.
Great videos as always!
I’d be curious how the chip (Intel n3450) would line up against a more modern CPU (Intel n5105).
Yes would be interesting for sure. I am interested in getting something with the n100 (2023 cpu) its quite a power chip and low powered too. But having that pcie slot in the Zimaboard is really nice. I would love to see a Zimaboard mk2
When you get a minute or so could you do a video on setting up unraid on a ubiquiti network with vlans?
In my case im trying to figure out how to get my HomeAssistant VM from on my Unraid to see my iot network while the server is on my main vlan with my pcs, server, and mobiles. I was finally able to figure out adguard thanks to the ui forum, but now i have to figure this out.
"Im not going to do a unboxing, its kinda pointless" - continues to do a unboxing 😂
im actually running unrai on one of these, need to get myself that 3d printed part though as mine looks messy. im mostly just running pihole uptime kuma and agentdvr and its running quite well
Ah nice. Glad to hear you are having a good experience with it. How much storage do you have? Are you using regular drives or ssds? Yeah there's a few different 3d printable options for cases on Printables and Thingyverse
@@SpaceinvaderOne as a test run I have a 500gb parity with a 500gb and a 250gb ssd for array with 250gb ssd for cache. It was more of a test of concept as a secondary server but your video had me very interested as a of sense vm as I've wanted a pf sense instance for a while now. It's a great little board and I love the low power
Neato. Would be fun to try on a NUC or Beelink and use a pair of M2 drives for a real small rig.
22:09 I believe the zimaboard had a fan header. I’m gonna open mine when I get a chance to check.
Ah cool. Thats useful. i will connect to that and drill a hole for the wire. Thanks for letting me know :)
@@SpaceinvaderOne Brandon of TechHutTv point it out in a previous video. But I’m glad to assist.
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The real test of course, turn on sub-titles and see how it fares, you will find I think it kills the unit but I could be wrong, now who uses subtitles? Old people like me who don't want to rattle the house with sound effects late at night, but still wants to know what the dialog is. Thanks for another great video :)
Hey Unky Joe. Great to see you hear. I love watching your content, great channel.
I didnt really test that. But we did watch a show with subtitles on the other night. But that was using an Nvidia shield as the client and was a 1080 show. So i don't know how much work the Zima was actually doing.
Great stuff and great presented...thx for that! One question: you told us, that for windows vm it is not the right one. For only one special app i need windows. So , it is only slow or not usable at all? Kind regards Michael
Hm, its okay.... kind of, if you want to just say do a web search with chrome or something like that, but any more and things get very slow. I did consider striping out all the bloat out of win10 and seeing if that helped, but i didnt get the time to test that. Thanks for watching :)
@@SpaceinvaderOne thanks a lot again! I will try this during winter....
@@SpaceinvaderOne searched a little bit ....perhaps it will be a N100 computer....only 6W TDP , too....but as i said....winter project ;-) . And thanks a lot for sharing your great stuff.
hello what is the brand of your smartplug? many thanks
I seem to remember at one point you were going to show how to set up an array without parity and with being notified about the missing parity. If you have done this and i missed it, i apologize.
The likely cause of the issues with the 3080 is that while they do have an external connector for the majority of the power usage, they ALSO pull up to 75W from the PCI-E slot.
Have you had any luck with getting Unraid to recognize the eMMC drive on the Zimaboard? I wanted to use that as a "cache" drive to store docker images.
No I was hoping to use the eMMC too, but as the main array drive (really as a place holder) and have the main data on a separate raid 0 pool on the 2 sata drives. But could never get the eMMC to show. You can see the controller in the hardware so you could probably passthrough the whole controler with the eMMC to a vm. So run the native CasaOS off the eMMC but as an Unraid vm.
Btw there is a fan header on the board but it is pico molex
Ah cool I didnt realize that. i will check that out thanks 🙂
@@SpaceinvaderOne also the acrylic spacers can separate so maybe if you take one off the screw would reach?
Which hardware exactly are you using normally for your pfsense with 4 x NICs and how much power is it consuming compared to zimaboard?
I use an older qotom mini pc with 4 intel nics. CPU is an i5-5250U CPU @ 1.60GHz . Its TDP is 16 watts but running pfSense uses about 12. But it is running pfSense only. So in real terms its using about twice the power of the Zimaboard
what device are you using to check the power draw? using web interface
Hi there. I am using a smart plug flashed with the tasmota firmware. You can flash a sonoff powr2 to do this but i use pre-flashed smart plugs from localbytes and love them but they only sell european plugs i think. www.mylocalbytes.com/
This is so crazy i have been talking to support about this but getting the bios updated to support an lsi hba (currently the zimaboard isn't handling the legacy bios for lsi cards and the card doesn't activate)
Ah really. What a shame. Hopefully they will sort that out. Did they say they would?
@@SpaceinvaderOne yes they said they have their bios team working one an update and also asked me fill out a short questionnaire
You can pick up a USB to Dual 3-Pin and 4-Pin PC Fan Sleeved Power Adapter Cable. Thanks ED
Oh yeah. good idea thanks :)
"they live" has to do with anything in our era ;)
It’s just a random video to test transcoding. Move along 😊
How do you switch between which device handles the transcoding?
Very briefly, to use hardware transcoding , you first need to add your gpu/igpu to the Emby/Plex template. If you're working with NVIDIA GPUs, make sure the NVIDIA driver is already installed on Unraid. On the other hand, for Intel QuickSync, you'll want to add the iGPU to the template and also get the 'Intel GPU Top' plugin set up. Once that's sorted, you can head over to Emby's settings to enable hardware transcoding. And, if you go into advanced mode with multiple GPUs you can pick and choose which device you'd prefer to use.
What would power the disks added with the extra card?
You would need some sort of external power for them. Thanks for watching :)
off topic, I noticed it does not show the motherboard temp. My server doesn't either. Is this a new bug in latest release?
Hi there. No just I couldn't detect the motherboard sensor on the Zimaboard with the CPU temp plugin. On my main server MB temp shows fine. Thanks for watching :)
i want to do something like you ve done with the pfsense as a virtual machine as a basic router , but with vlans and a vlan switch to seperate them to physical cables and diferent networks (wifi , iot in a separate vlan , guest wifi, lan , modem ) , i think i can make it with one network card .
Hey there! Thanks for watching and leaving a comment.
In the video, I used two distinct physical NICs (br0 for LAN and VLANs and br1 for WAN). However, br0 was actually handling 2 vlans and regular LAN traffic from the pfSense VM to the network switch.
So you're thinking of taking it a step further by using a single NIC to handle both the WAN coming into the pfSense VM and the LAN (plus VLANs) going out. Defo an ambitious setup! It does add complexity. In virtualized environments like this, VLAN tags can sometimes get "trapped" or not forwarded correctly, especially when dealing with bridged virtual NICs.You'll need to ensure VLAN configurations are correctly set up on the pfSense VM, the Unraid host, and your switch. Again thanks for watching 🙂
@@SpaceinvaderOne hello there and thank you for all that information , i was thinking of using unraid to handle the vlan separation and then giving them to the virtual router as virtual network cards
i have done some testing in the past and i think that unraid has to have at least one physical connection to the network (not through vlan ) , it was over a year ago and i have to start all over again to undust my memory .
i’m still new to UnRaid. i though it had to have a parity drive?
Nope. Parity drives are just for protecting data with redundancy c:
Hi there. Yes as @Starhartdeer says its for redundancy only (so you can rebuild a failed drive) But you dont have to have a parity drive. But if a drive should fail you will loose the data on that drive. So best practice always have parity :) Thanks for watching.
Lol "i'm not going to do an unboxing..." *followed by doing an unboxing*
Try it with a tesla P4
Well, i think that 55 to 60W of idle for my Unraid with a 13700k its not much looking at those consumptions😂
I assumed since they copied the winecoolers name that it's pronouced zee ma board
You maybe right I'm not sure. But remember in UK we say Zed and not Zee so probably it can be pronounced both ways🙂 thanks for watching.
Regarding Emby and video transcoding. I don't think it's important today now that all chromium based browsers support hevc. You can use Chrome, Edge, Safari etc and play hevc content with direct play. Apart from desktop on all other devices we would use, Emby has apps that can handle hevc with direct play. On desktop only Firefox left not to support hevc, but I just don't care. If Mozilla doesn't care, I don't for them too and use another browser like Chrome or Edge. I just don't see the point or transcoding anymore.
Hi. I knew edge supported hevc. But didnt know chrome did. Maybe I should switch from firefox to brave ? (I guess as its chromium based it will support it too).
@@SpaceinvaderOne I don't know about Brave, it should, Chromium supports hardware hevc playback since version 104. I know Vivaldi and Opera support it too. Also you could use Chromium woolyss builds, you get a perfect chromium browser with no tracking from Google, Microsoft etc, a cleaner browser without additional stuff (for example Brave adds crypto stuff) that supports BOTH hardware and software hevc decosing.
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