rjgould 0 Posted August 25 Share Posted August 25 Feels like this should be on here so everyone knows https://blog.kobol.io/2021/08/25/we-are-pulling-the-plug/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zac 2 Posted August 25 Share Posted August 25 Sad sad news! Sad for the team, they put a lot of effort into this, I'm sure they made a lot of sacrifices for that project, and it's never pleasant to end an intense effort like that. And of course sad for the customers, who were counting on them. Especially since Helios was a success, customers were had high expectations for Helios64. Very sad that it didn't work out... I believe hardware wise, the team did an excellent job, Helios64 looks really good, and the specs were quite nice. But I'm guessing it's on the software side that it didn't work out, which is really a shame, because software can always be fixed. It requires time, it requires effort, it's not cheap, but it's easier to fix than a hardware issue. So although I'm a gutted that they are pulling the plug, good luck to Kobol team, and hope that you come back having learnt from this experience Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jotapesse 1 Posted August 25 Share Posted August 25 Really sad news, very sorry to hear that for them as a team and company and for ourselves the users of course. The Helios64 is one of the best NAS solutions out there for the budget and the specs and with great potential. I was also counting on getting a Helio64 next revision with the expected improvements and the expected support from the Kobol team... Well hopefully better days will come for all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
akschu 4 Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 Frustrating. Any other arm based board that's 64-bit and has an actual SATA controller? I need this to run zfs for a backup system. I suppose ODROID-HC4 works, but the toaster form factor is lame. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ning 39 Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 your data is expansive, don't stick to arm. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
barnumbirr 13 Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 5 hours ago, ning said: your data is expansive, don't stick to arm. Wut? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heisath 97 Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 I think what he meant is: "Your data is expensive, don't stick to ARM" -> Buy a better / easier supported and more stable / mature board like literally ANY x86 small form factor thing. Can get them easy with actual SATA etc. Real BIOS.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
akschu 4 Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 Uh, arm is the future for everything. Intel is on its way out. Also, I use this for offsite backup. All of the servers I manage have raid 1 for storage, a second internal disk for backup, and an offsite storage box that grabs the latest snapshot every hour. I've been using a kobol and a HC4 to do this for months now, it works fine. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeoTwawki 0 Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 Well this sucks. I never got my usb-c cable or any replies to emails about it, they must be just swamped overworked to death and decided this wasn't worth it (kinda what it sounded like in the newsletter, top much work for 3 people). Hopefully being open source means we can keep up on the software end for awhile without them. I got this specifically to have an ARM based linux device that had multiple native sata ports instead of sata-over-usb. I had kind of a niche use and this fit the bill. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abreyu 0 Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 better have 2/3 "cheap" low power consumpiton arm platform than a single expansive x86 solution. If your data is so important you need to save it at least in 3 different places... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
meymarce 5 Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 I am still sad about the news. However I wish the team the best and some more free time and hopefully you will regain some of that passion. You have come a long way from an originally failed Kickstarter campaign for the helios4 (which still came to life) to the helios64. The work you have done for the open source community is impressive. A personal thank you to @gprovost @aprayoga and also Dmitriy Sidorovich (which I have not seen on the forums). I would be very much interested in how everything worked behind the scenes. Like, how do find a factory, how does sourcing the parts work, how many prototypes were there?. This is something that I guess few think about and may have as little clue as I have. It'd be super cool if you could share some of that, obv. just if you don't mind and as far as maybe NDAs allow for. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aprayoga 58 Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 Hi everyone, thank you for all of your support. I'll be still around but not in full time as before. I saw Helios64 has several issues in this new release. I will start looking into it. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIGSEGV 28 Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 18 hours ago, aprayoga said: Hi everyone, thank you for all of your support. I'll be still around but not in full time as before. I saw Helios64 has several issues in this new release. I will start looking into it. Thank you @aprayoga Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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