Product - ZimaBoard - World's First Hackable Single Board Server

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Introducing ZimaBoard

Cloud Computing for Rebels

More than an SBC

ZimaBoard is a low-cost single board server designed for makers and geeks like you. It has both the expandability of an x86 SBC and the appropriate power of a microserver.

Your Data, Your Cloud

Build your personal cloud and easily expand to over 36TB disk space as your data grows. No more subscription fee, get 100% control over your private data, 24 hours online.

Secure, Customized Traffic

Run OpenWRT and pfSense on ZimaBoard, expand various plug-ins, setup your VPN, hide your digital footprint, ban the ads, and protect your sensitive data from breaches.

Full Speed, Full Experience

ZimaBoard is equipped with 2x GbE LAN Ports and 1 MiniDP that offers up to 4K/60Hz video at 100MB/sec speed. Enjoy cinema-level, real-time AV streaming experience at home.

100% Tinker Friendly

ZimaBoard packs an onboard PCIe x4 interface with dozens of available accessories. Extend your setup with 2.5Gbe, NVMe NGFF SSD, WiFi dongle, XMOS/DAC module, and more!

Open, Community-based

ZimaBoard is open source and always will be. We take this transparent approach in all we do both as a company and as a community. Want to jump in and look at our code? Do it.

Applications

One Board to Rule Them All

Personal Cloud

ZimaBoard allows you to easily expand to 36TB disk space (2 x SATA) as your data grows. Enjoy fast reading and writing experience just like your local hard disk when connected via gigabit network.

Up to 36TB

Storage Space

100MB/sec

Write Speed

$0

Recurring Fee

Software Router

With its superior compatibility offered by the x86 chipset, you can turn ZimaBoard into a hardware router. Create secure VPN connection, run lightweight services like FTP Server, BitTorrent Client, perform Traffic-Shaping and QoS, or even set up a private access to your office computer.

OpenWRT

Compatible

pfSense

Compatible

6W

TDP

Plex Media Server

With the Plex Media Server installed on ZimaBoard, get all your media organized, stream your favorite collections of movies, TV shows anywhere on all your devices, and enjoy millions of high-resolution tracks via Tidal. Transforming the way you browse and enjoy your personal media library.

0TB-36TB

Capacity

4K/60Hz

Streaming

Transcoding

Yes

File Share & Collaboration

Boost your teamwork seamlessly on documents and spreadsheets in a protected environment. With ZimaBoard, you can set up a large-volume shared disk right at home or in the office. Edit your videos, photos, and documents with others on multiple systems in real-time.

Nextcloud

Compatible

Self-hosting

Compatible

GDPR

Compliant

Personal Server

In practice, Zimaboard as a personal server offers excellent development possibilities and performance/price ratio as an x86 microserver. For example, it is perfect for git server, web server (Apache / lighttpd / NGINX), print server, chat server, or a Minecraft server.

933

Multi-core Score

Linux

Pre-installed

Windows

Compatible

Industry/Embedded Projects

Use ZimaBoard for data collection, data buffering, and data preprocessing to provide accurate and effective on-site IoT data for the cloud or local server, offering instant decision-making to provide agile responses, significantly reducing cloud and network infrastructure dependence.

32TB

Data Pool

Docker

Compatible

4G/5G

Ready

for Makers, by Makers

Developed In the Crowd

Congratulations that the project got funded! I backed a 832 and I would love to see Proxmox running on it and run a home lab and virtualize Home Assistant and a Ubuntu docker server with some cool containers such as Bitwarden, Nginx Proxy Manager, WireGuard and Adguard.

@Joost backer

Goin to love this one, sounds like a great product! And well thought out too!

@Robert backer

I really like the amount of RAM on these boards - it can make a huge difference in my use cases.

@David Cornejo backer

Zimaboard is very similar to a raspberry pi, except that it has an x86 processor instead of ARM. Some other differences, like the PCIe x4 to allow add on cards or the lack of GPIO, may be considered huge or not a big deal based on what you use the system for. The 216 will be tested with VyOS as I work on some labs, while the 832 will replace a NUC as my docker host.

@Dustin Rowland backer

All in all a very nice product and i like it very much to be part of it!

@Marcell Hug backer

I am a general tinkerer but also starting a business all about smart homes and home automation. This is actually a perfect use case for home assistant. I will definitely be testing home assistant on here as this is the main system i use currently for all my smart home builds.

@Daniel Romney backer

x64 compaibilty, 8Gb ram, dual nics and pcie4 means I can use them for a wide variety of things, that Arm based boards are more difficult or limited for.

@Richard backer

1880

backers

316,032

raised

45

days

4905

% of target

Specifications

Software

Pre-installed OS

Linux

Compatible OS

Linux / Windows /
OpenWrt / pfSense /
android / Libreelec

Performance

Model

ZimaBoard 216

ZimaBoard 432

ZimaBoard 832

Processor

Intel Celeron Processor 'Apollo Lake'
N3350 2 Cores 1.1GHz base frequency 2.4GHz Burst 2MB L2 cache	N3450 4 Cores 1.1GHz base frequency 2.2GHz Burst 2MB L2 cache	N3450 4 Cores 1.1GHz base frequency 2.2GHz Burst 2MB L2 cache

Graphics

Intel® HD Graphics 500
200MHz Base Frequency 650MHz Burst	200MHz Base Frequency 700MHz Burst	200MHz Base Frequency 700MHz Burst

Memory

LPDDR4
2GB	4GB	8GB

Onboard Storage

eMMC 5.1
16GB	32GB	32GB

TDP

Connectivity

HDD/SSD	2x SATA 6.0 Gb/s Ports
LAN	2x GbE LAN Ports Realtek 8111H
USB	2x USB 3.0
PCle	1x PCle 2.0 x4
Display	1x Mini-DisplayPort 1.2 4k@60Hz
Power	DC 12V 5.5x2.5mm