ZimaBoard 2 1664 x86 Home Server, N150, 16GB LPDDR5,PCIe 3.0×4 Expansion

Great device, but they really need to work on documentation, especially first time startup is very skechy. Other that documentation issue it works great. For standard setups only use one of the ethernet ports unless you combine them with software first (if you try it without combining them first it really confuses windows apps!).

A great homelab or NAS setup for those interested in running a headless setup! The ZimaOS web interface is very easy to use and allows for a much simpler experience for adding apps and other services than your typical linux based homelab. The app store has a nice selection of apps and utilities to choose from in the realm of network solutions, file sharing, media servers, etc. I also appreciated the ease of setting up file sharing compared to linux based/command line alternatives. My only issue with the product was that despite having a miniDP output, the ZIMA OS does not natively support a display. In my case, I purchased this device to partially serve the purpose of a NAS as well as power a display for my home automation system via touchscreen display. Ultimately, I had to abandon the ZimaOS and install a linux distrobution instead to have it meet my needs. That said, it was also very simple and the hardware did very well accommodating multiple different distros and touch screen capabilities. I do however wish that the product description made clearer that despite the hardware having a display output, the Zima OS does not support an external display.

You can literally set up an entire home lab with Proxmox, pfSense/OPNsense, and an Ubuntu VM on this board, and still have room to grow.

Insane system for the amount of things I can run in parallel.

It did NOT look fully new. It had some apparent wear on the exterior. Works as advertised.

Day One, Hour One, Step One, Screw #4: stripped. Great now I have to find something to get this screw out in order to mount it to the aluminum whale dock. Used included screwdriver and everything. Honestly not impressed with the quality, I understand that 3/4ths of the price comes from the RAM, but maybe get better screws/ use more standardized screw heads/ or come up with a different way to strap that dock to the board. Work in progress, I'll get back with more review after I get the thing mounted.

I got the ZimaBoard 2 1664 to use as the "Brain" for my new SSD-based NAS server, and I love it! At the time we ordered it (from my husband's Amazon account) it was on sale for ~$280. That is an absolutely excellent value. Especially, right now during the AI apocalypse. Even at MSRP I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this single-board server. I debated for a bit whether to stick with ZimaOS, or install another OS like Proxmox or TrueNAS. In the end I chose to stick with ZimaOS, and I am glad I did. While I do find the immutability a tad limiting, I have been able to do everything I want with it using some workarounds. The ZimaOS dashboard makes configuring your storage pools easy, and I can still get SSH access to do more advanced configurations and customization. I ended up getting two 4TB SATA SSDs for my main storage pool, and I am using an NVMe SSD on a PCIe card for the container and VM storage. Setting it all up was a breeze. The immutability of the operating system does have an advantage. The OS updates are just a single file, and if anything goes wrong you can chose to just boot the old version instead. You can get back up and running in a matter of minutes. For my setup I 3D-printed a bracket I found on Printables with ABS filament, and I mounted it into a GeeekPi RackMate T0 10" mini-rack. I actually found out that IceWhale actually features the model for the bracket on their website too. I did end up buying a SATA extension cable for the one drive just because the bend radius on the included dual SATA drive cable was a bit tight. Other than that, the setup went perfectly. I cannot recommend the ZimaBoard 2 enough for your homelab. It is such a great value, and the hardware is very high-quality. I wouldn't get the 8GB RAM version though. That seems too limited for 2026 to me. Especially, if you want to utilize virtual machines.

Since it’s built to accommodate external HDD/SSD storage to use so many Docker containers, it should have an easy method to select the exact location for them to be stored rather than on the eMMC - other than that, very well done

Produto sensacional, atendeu todas minhas espectativas e ainda mais pelo tamanho. Como não tenho muito espaço disponivel, encaixou como uma luva.