I'm so very super happy to have received my Helios64 NAS, from Kobol, that I can't wait to write about it!
I just passed the last two hours assembling the hardware, thanks to their very
well-made and illustrated guide. Some
steps were naturally a bit tedious, like the wiring of the HDD
harness, but
nothing impossible.
The case, and all the components, are very well finished metal pieces, except for the
disk trays made of nice flashy pink plastic, giving the whole lot a amazing look.
It's just beautiful!
I've not yet power-up the beast, because I did not anticipate that I would need
a micro-SD card for the installation1, and it's already 9pm, and also mainly
because the
MSR
is exposed
tonight
at the IAE!
That means I currently have no idea at all about how the software I'll put on it
will run, and how well it will handle any IO load (it's an ARM SoC, after all,
not an x64 one), but rest assured that I'll come back here to talk about it.
I'll now join the 'verse and leave you with some pictures:
Installing the HDD harness
The back-panel with two fans and the ports
View from the front, without HDD
HDD are now mounted
And the front-panel is in place!
1
though it's well written in the doc!