I like it, unfortunately I couldn't find anything about the specs of the 12V/5V molex output. Only the recommended power supply using the 12V barrel (90W/ 12V/8A). You should probably reach to Radxa on their discord/forum to find out if the board can supports the intensity peak of 5 3.5" HDD spinning up a the same time....

Hello, After 5 years of loyal service, my Helios64 SBC just died on me last night. Would a Radxa Rock5 ITX+ and a M.2 to Hexa SATA Adapter could be a good drop in replacement to reuse the case? Both are Mini-ITX so it would fit. I know I would lose the front panel lights and power/reset button, and I would need to cut the back panel to fit the I/O shield but these are minor problems. What I am more concerned with, is if it is at all possible to power the 5 HDD from the radxa board (as the Helios 64 board didi). Helios engineers had made it possible to do it with minimum power, mainly by starting up the drives sequentially. Can the molex 4-Pin connector on the Radxa can do it? Provided I could buy/make an adapter to connect it to the J8 harness of the case? That would definitely be a great thing if I could reuse that very fine enclosure. Thanks for your input on that matter.

In the past (2019) there was no chance to use the A64-CPU Jide Remix Mini with armbian, because of a blocked -u-boot But today I found a site (from February 2025 on github) https://github.com/r4nd3l/revived_remix_mini_pc?tab=readme-ov-file which can make the Closed Jide Remix Mini to boot from SDCard with a modified u-boot There at the github page is a modified u-boot and a modified A64 armbian for the Jide Remix Mini. Jide did leave us with a closed/blocked device AT this time the 16GB emmc isnt useable, but using SDCard is a start for upcycling the Jide Remix Mini

If this fails on multiple build host environments, maybe check your network/internet connectivity. Else I don't really know what could be the cause. I use Armbian Aarch64 (RK3588s) with various tweaks ans kernels and it works fine for builds.

This suggests it is 5V only and also no USB-C PD. You should power a ROCK5 with higher voltage, then no issues, at least that is my experience and is also what you can see if you look at schematics. You can also read the end-user docs/wiki. ROCK3A, ROCK5B, NanoPi-R6C all have own step-down DC/DC converter on the board itself. The latter one for example has an 8A component for it. So it can make enough power from 20 or 15 Volt input at a perfect 5V internally for USB devices on its type-A ports, and also easily maintain its 3.3V and lower voltages for CPU etc. OrangePi is cheap, same as RaspberryPi. Those shift the powering (issues) to the end-user, meaning you need a stable enough 5V on the USB power input connector. A slight voltagedrop can lead to problems. But board itself is cheap. RPi5 requires a quite rare 5A capable 5V USB-C PD (RPI5), where the ROCK3A/5B can just be fed from any voltage between 9 and 20 Volt (see docs/wiki). If you use 5V, the on-board DC/DC step-down cannot do its work of course, so essentially bypassed. Why did you buy a ROCK5 then. Same as buying a car with combustion engine with empty fuel tank, instead put a horse in front to pull you forward from A to B. (Or get a bicycle). The (extra) horse is the 27W Pi5 PSU here, costed me 18 Euros, half the price of the ROCK3A. I put a fixed 12V on a USB-C connector, from an old card battery, that by itself is kept at about 12V by a 12V/10A generic powerbrick. Is also UPS then is no 230VAC mains. The Nanpi-R6C with latest U-Boot and latest mainline kernel does also do USB-C PD, so with a generic 45W USB-C PD PSU, is flips automatically to 15V on its USB-C input. With another 60W USB-C PD PSU it was 20V. ROCK5B should be able to do the same, but haven't tried as run 24/7 for months as home/house server.