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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.

Axzez has apparently updated their "Interceptor OS" for CM4... https://www.axzez.com/software…ac-4d65-82ee-e6caa23941ba

I ordered 2 of them way back on Feb 10th, 2022 (18 months ago) and never did get the CM4 I wanted for them :-(, so they became a waste of money for me. I think you can now order them with the CM4, which changes things significantly and makes the product more attractive, or at least usable.

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Axzez has apparently updated their "Interceptor OS" for CM4... https://www.axzez.com/software…ac-4d65-82ee-e6caa23941ba

I ordered 2 of them way back on Feb 10th, 2022 (18 months ago) and never did get the CM4 I wanted for them :-(, so they became a waste of money for me. I think you can now order them with the CM4, which changes things significantly and makes the product more attractive, or at least usable.

And its also compatible with the bananapi cm now.

I'm on phone but you can find it on their page

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Not easy to install the OS. The banana pi doesn't support usb boot and the Axzez doesn't have a sd slot. So, you have to put the banana pi in a carrier board to install the OS on the emmc.

I saw that. Just found it a good improvement for those that can't get a hold of a Pi CM4,

I was fortunate to get the CM4 I wanted at the time (and it's been running spotless since) but I also grab a Pi carrier board, just in case.

Never used it, though.

Although, as soon as I receive the Storaxa, the Interceptor/CM4 will be de-commissioned.

Might as well, try to get a Banana CM4 just for tinkering.

Hello everybody. We've built new Debian bullseye images with OMV preinstalled for both Raspberry CM4 and Bananapi CM4:

https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/axzez-build/omv-interceptor-raspberrypi-cm4-23.09.14-910.img

https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/axzez-build/omv-interceptor-raspberrypi-cm4-23.09.14-910.img.sha256

https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/axzez-build/omv-interceptor-bananapi-cm4-23.09.14-910.img

https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/axzez-build/omv-interceptor-bananapi-cm4-23.09.14-910.img.sha256

OMV does not seem to be able to detect Linux DSA (switch) ports, so they do no appear in the web ui. Let us know if the image is missing anything.

Created a feature request to fix detection:

improve ethernet interface detection · Issue #1596 · openmediavault/openmediavault

Linux has switched from using virtual vlan interfaces for switch ports to "dsa" which creates physical ethernet interfaces that represent the true state of the…

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