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Did you leave the cat in the case?

Trying to work with 2 crazy cats is not easy

Just an small update about temperatures:

After applying a geekworm aluminium dissipator (thank you ryecoaaron ) and with only that to do the cooling, temperature came down from ~60ºC to ~45ºC.

Still not happy with it, I assembled a small 5V FAN that I had from an ICE TOWER and used the GROUND and +5V pins from the USB J7 header:

Temperature is now running ~32ºC

root@panela:~# vcgencmd measure_temp
temp=32.6'C
root@panela:~# vcgencmd measure_temp
temp=31.1'C
root@panela:~# vcgencmd measure_temp
temp=31.6'C

Next step will be to try to plug the FAN on +3.3V (need to make a junction on the outgoing of the PSU) to make it run slower and less noisy (although I hear more, the FAN of the PSU than that one)

Also, instead of a 450W PSU, I'm going to get a FANLESS PSU with lower power output to reduce the noise.

WIP still going,

Hi there - was just wondering what the general feeling has been with the interceptor board.

Now that the the dust has settled a bit, is there any real difference with this board over the previous method of using the Compute Module 4 IO Board and a PCI-e Sata card?

Are you using a regular desktop PSU with the axzez?

For me, the best thing about it is the possibility of using it with a Pico PSU to keep everything quiet, near and efficient.

For me it's a small footprint. I can print an adapter for anything and I can use any PSU but, it's not easy to physically shrink ICs.

While I'm not using either of my boards, I did test one with 4 drives using a 12V, 4A PSU... worked fine building a RAID. This exact one: https://www.ebay.com/itm/35396…b597d9:g:VBsAAOSwDG1iMEyQ

I was going to try and be fancy with this: https://www.microcenter.com/pr…-laptop-and-mobile-device ... however I can't figure out the PD negotiation :-(.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that thought the same thing about the Axzez Interceptor!

I was giving this some thought the other day and pulled up the following spec list:

total comes in under 300 probably.

pros of axzez setup:

- RTC battery

- 4 ethernet ports

cons:

- need to kernel patch unless you use their OS image (not mainlined? wat.)

- no sd card slot (booo)

The alternative I was looking at was the pibox 5 bay: https://pibox.io/order but that's "announcement late 2022"

pros of pibox:

- sd card slot

- PSU included

cons:

- not yet available

For PSUs:

power brick for pico PSU: $20 (maybe just get a real psu at this point?)

looks like a bunch of BOM parts are here too: https://www.printables.com/mod…-storage-4-bay-35-itx-nas

Quote from Snuupy

cons:

- need to kernel patch unless you use their OS image (not mainlined? wat.)

You should edit this to something like:

Need kernel patch if you want to use the 4 ethernet ports.

I can assure you that it runs raspiOS lite OOB.

Yes, it probably will be more expensive than other solutions but, in the end you'll have that fuzzy-warm feeling that you helped a small company thrived.

Quote from Snuupy

pros of pibox:

- sd card slot

- PSU included

Is a sd card a pro? It almost surely runs at usb2 speeds and the axzez and many other boards have at least 1 functional usb2.