I wanted to give a short teaser of an upcoming board I have been developing. The board will be launched through a crowd-funding campaign in couple of weeks.
Codename : Helios-4
I'm sure the heatsink will give you some hint The board has been build around the Marvell Armada 388 SoC / SoM from SolidRun. So part of the design is inspired from the Clearfog dev board. Actually the SolidRun helped me on the PCB layout to make this little guy reality.
Here the main specs :
- dual core A9 @1.6 GHz (max 2Ghz)
- 1GB DDR3 (2GB optional)
- 4x SATA III
- 2x USB 3.0
- 1x Gigabit Ethernet
- Micro SD card
- Built-in HDD power circuitry for 4 disks
- 2x Fan PWM headers
- I2C, GPIO and extension pins
- Micro USB to Serial
- Dimension 100mm x 100mm
So clearly I have started this project with one main goal in mind : to finally bring to market the 1st ARM based board which has been designed specially for NAS purpose. I was frustrated to not find any affordable ARM board which has more than 1 SATA port.
Optionally the board will come along with a full kit, acrylic casing fitting 4x HDD (3.5'), 2x FAN, oled screen, cabling and power adaptor. Once assembled, it's the smallest 4x 3.5' disk NAS that you could find our there ;-) If people interested, I will post some pic.
Anyhow I stop my pitch here ;-)
Having used Armbian images and the build framework / toolchain for quite some times, it was logical for this project that the baseline image for Helios4 would be done via the Armbian project.
I recently started to dig into your repo to see how to contribute and squeeze my board in. I might need some guidance later, so I hope I can seek a bit of support from the team. I'm also super keen to donate aboard if it can help ;-)
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Hi Igor, Hi Armbian team,
I wanted to give a short teaser of an upcoming board I have been developing. The board will be launched through a crowd-funding campaign in couple of weeks.
Codename : Helios-4
I'm sure the heatsink will give you some hint
The board has been build around the Marvell Armada 388 SoC / SoM from SolidRun. So part of the design is inspired from the Clearfog dev board. Actually the SolidRun helped me on the PCB layout to make this little guy reality.
Here the main specs :
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