Does anyone who bought them has one for sale here in Europe? Got two and been looking for a third one at that heavily discounted price
[CN] Seeed studio reServer 4C/8T for $274.50
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I had ordered wrong type of 4-pin to SATA power from AliE and after 4 weeks of waiting for both, i wanna ask if anyone knows the exact type and where to order from? I am based in Europe so AliE is more convenient than Ebay and sellers from the US.
Support told me to get this one for my bad sata power cable although they only take bulk orders.
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I've tried https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002663996478.html first, waiting for 2 weeks to find out it was the wrong one.
Then i ordered and got https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002663996478.html, also after 2 weeks to find out it also didn't fit.
I've now ordered https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002663996478.html to see if that might fit.
Looking at the link you got from Seeed support, i am not sure that has the correct size and format of the connector. It doesn't look correct if you look closely at one of the 3 SATA power connectors on reServer.
But i hope to be wrong ofc!
The support staff (1st line support i assume) doesn't seem very knowledgeable to me from their responses. I asked about an issue related to why an adapter (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004721706685.html) did not work on reServer and their reply was that it was PCIe gen4 hence it wouldn't work. The adapter is backward compatible with PCIe gen3 as well and works fine on other M.2 M-key PCIe gen3 slots, which i did point out.
So based on my suspicion about that adapter being M.2 2260 (which i i think shouldn't matter electrically?) i ordered another M.2 adapter without the cable that is 2280: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005467107231.html, and guess what...it works just fine.
Now i can connect my NVMe U.2 drive to the reServer.!
Then i ordered and got https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002663996478.html, also after 2 weeks to find out it also didn't fit.
I've now ordered https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002663996478.html to see if that might fit.
Looking at the link you got from Seeed support, i am not sure that has the correct size and format of the connector. It doesn't look correct if you look closely at one of the 3 SATA power connectors on reServer.
But i hope to be wrong ofc!
The support staff (1st line support i assume) doesn't seem very knowledgeable to me from their responses. I asked about an issue related to why an adapter (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004721706685.html) did not work on reServer and their reply was that it was PCIe gen4 hence it wouldn't work. The adapter is backward compatible with PCIe gen3 as well and works fine on other M.2 M-key PCIe gen3 slots, which i did point out.
So based on my suspicion about that adapter being M.2 2260 (which i i think shouldn't matter electrically?) i ordered another M.2 adapter without the cable that is 2280: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005467107231.html, and guess what...it works just fine.
Now i can connect my NVMe U.2 drive to the reServer.!
It's again on the sale, now 50% off.
It looks like it's on backorder though...not sure what that means
www.seeedstudio.com
It looks like it's on backorder though...not sure what that means
reServer - Compact Edge Server powered by 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i3 1125G4
reServer is based on an ODYSSEY X86 v2 board and powered by Intel® Core™ 11th Gen. i3 and Intel UHD Graphics 48EUs (400 - 1250 MHz), which delivers high CPU and AI performance for various applications. It has two high-speed 2.5-Gigabit Ethernet ports and supports hybrid connectivity including...
www.seeedstudio.com
that thing is hella cuteI think it's great little platform with few options for expansion, two 2.5Gbe ports, 11th gen Intel i3 etc...
reServer - Compact Edge Server powered by 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i3 1125G4
reServer is based on an ODYSSEY X86 v2 board and powered by Intel® Core™ 11th Gen. i3 and Intel UHD Graphics 48EUs (400 - 1250 MHz), which delivers high CPU and AI performance for various applications. It has two high-speed 2.5-Gigabit Ethernet ports and supports hybrid connectivity including...
Does anybody else have problems with the ADT-Link R24SF cable?
I installed a 15cm one (looping back over the motherboard, cut a drive tray to make space) and I am having stability issues. After several days the system locks up and I have to hard reset it. When this happens, the system no longer boots; the light turns momentarily on, but after few seconds it turns off again, the HDDs do not even spin up. The system boots again as soon as I remove the extender cable, which leads me to suspect that the issue is due to the cable. However, the system does continue to work if I install the cable again... until the lockup repeats itself n days later.
I installed a 15cm one (looping back over the motherboard, cut a drive tray to make space) and I am having stability issues. After several days the system locks up and I have to hard reset it. When this happens, the system no longer boots; the light turns momentarily on, but after few seconds it turns off again, the HDDs do not even spin up. The system boots again as soon as I remove the extender cable, which leads me to suspect that the issue is due to the cable. However, the system does continue to work if I install the cable again... until the lockup repeats itself n days later.
Are you booting from the drive on the ADT-Link? The R24SF is rated as Gen3, and it's being plugged into a Gen4 slot. If your NVME is also Gen4, it could potentially lose signal quality over time and thus stability. It may even be trying to renegotiate speeds as if hot swapped, which NVME doesn't support, and if this is a boot drive it'd be all the more problematic.
Thanks for your reply! My SSD is PCIe 3.0 and I am booting from a ZFS mirror, so in theory it should be fine.
I'm starting to doubt the cable is the problem though: just the other day I noticed that when the system fails to boot the power draw peaks at around 80W (due to the simultaneous spin up of the 2 20TB drives), so well above the 60W limit of the included power supply. Apparently others have had this issue as well. I've ordered a 90W power supply earlier today, so I'll soon find out whether that resolves my stability problems.
Unfortunately the power supply only resolved part of the problem: with 90W the system always boots without problem, but the system still regular hangs. I'm fairly certain that it is the ADT R24SF extender cable, because without it the system has been running stable for nearly 3 weeks now.
I'm not quite sure what the best way to resolve it is. I may just have a lemon, since no other user reported problems. But I'm a bit hesitant to simply order another cable or even their shielded PCIe 4.0 variant (K24MF).
I have 35 days uptime right now with my system with the r24sf without issues. I am not booting from this drive though, it is just in a mirrored metadata vDev in truenas. I have had no drive errors appear in this arrangement but my system isn't getting tons of usage.
Thanks for sharing your experience, this seems to indicate that it may just be my cable. I've tried various things, both software wise and keeping the cable+ssd out of the top of the case to limit electromagnetic interference. The hangs do not seem to depend on usage either, it has also happened in the middle of the night when the system is basically idle.
Anyone compared these to the Topton R1 NAS or similar devices you see with the N100 and 2 bays?
The reserver is 20-50% faster depending on what you're doing, has dual channel memory, can accept 64GB, has 2 m.2 slots, pcie expansion, external antenna connections for internal wifi, cell, or sdr cards, better build quality, a built in arduino coprocessor with i/o pins, and in my experience rock solid stability.
The r1 advantages are toolless drive caddies that you don't have to disassemble the chassis to swap drives, likely lower power consumption, and far cheaper, unless you can find the reserver on sale in which case the r1 is still less expensive.
I have two reservers, one is doing NVR duty running scrypted for four cameras. It runs at about 4% load recording 4 full bit rates streams and doing motion and object detection.
I don't have an r1, but do have another similarly specced n100 machine, that I could wedge a coral into. It ran at about 20% usage with the same load, but I'm pretty sure it could have been brought down some, as I was streaming onto a NAS connection, and hadn't properly gotten the igpu accelleration working.
Hope that helps a bit.
in this video they test truenas, can't be too different from to this, right?
I am running the Reserver on ProxMox, which is also based on Linux. All is fine, except that I have lockups when using a second SSD in the PCIe port. I thought this was due to the R24SF extension cable, but I have the same problem when using the shielded K24MF cable or even a direct PCIe to M2 adapter. In all fairness though, others do not seem to report this problem.
In my experience, the positive things of this machine:
- nice build quality and relatively easy to work with (for instance, screws rather than plastic clips)
- more than enough compute and memory (max 64GB) for most home use cases
- low power consumption: slightly below 20W idle with 2x 20TB and 2x SSD
Downsides:
- cooling becomes a problem when stressing the machine with disks and SSDs (an exhaust fan on the top works wonders though)
- standard 60W power supply may be inefficient with disks and SSDs
- the B-key M.2 slot is rather useless, as it does not support SATA and NVME B-key SSDs are about to go extinct
- no ECC memory support
In my experience, the positive things of this machine:
- nice build quality and relatively easy to work with (for instance, screws rather than plastic clips)
- more than enough compute and memory (max 64GB) for most home use cases
- low power consumption: slightly below 20W idle with 2x 20TB and 2x SSD
Downsides:
- cooling becomes a problem when stressing the machine with disks and SSDs (an exhaust fan on the top works wonders though)
- standard 60W power supply may be inefficient with disks and SSDs
- the B-key M.2 slot is rather useless, as it does not support SATA and NVME B-key SSDs are about to go extinct
- no ECC memory support
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