Radxa Zero 3E - Cheapest, Fastest NAS so far? USB3, Gigabit Ethernet, Under $20.

The Radxa Zero 3E just recently showed up and got rid of the wifi and gave us gigabit ethernet. The combination of Gigabit ethernet and USB 3.0 is a sweet combo and all for $16 (at the time of my purchase anyway lol) Let's do some tests involving Kodi, Jellyfin and Samba.

[FatForWeightLoss]

This is so awesome. I have my own NAS and jellyfin server now. Arrived today, works so well!

[chrisumali]

Thanks for the demo and info, This is awesome. Have a great day

[Flare]

I'd love to see the 2 W Tested for the same. I want to put together a AP NAS to keep with my phone, because it's too much effort to put micro SD cards in phones now. Was thinking about using ArozOS though...

[danielpicassomunoz]

U could use a usbc to usbc extension to use the power measuring device

[DongShengStories]

You can plug the usbc meter into the charging brick and it will show the power consumption as well

[Kingramze]

Very cool. I'd like to see USB4, NVME slot, and 2.5 gigE - plus heat sinks and an enclosure, but for the price, this is unbeatable. It does everything my old Raspberry Pi 3 B+ chokes on - especially HEVC. If they can get better OS support (I hear updates can break some packages), they'll go to the top of my list for home theater streaming systems and multimedia NAS for friends 'n fam. I might get one to tinker with 'til then.

[nihoniumog]

Hi sir, please test it further. Im impressed that it has Ethernet and usb c. Please do test like pihole, docker etc.. And even tailscale. Thnx

[jackipiegg]

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Can't find one at $16 anywhere lol. Probably someone made a mistake between this and the POE HAT coz that costs $16.

[tonykeltsflorida]

that's cool. I used to use a SBC but I sold it because I built my monster desktop Linux Mint PC.

[IonCubekhanz]

You have GPU acceleration in Jellyfin?

[massimocavalleri]

It could be interesting see radxa zero with two SATA hd on usbc and OMV

[anh]

Did you managed to boot it from the usb to SATA adapter? I am wondering between this, the Zero 3W which has eMMC and Rock 3C which can boot from an mSATA. I plan to run Home Assistant and OMV on it.

[paulhelinski]

It's interesting that you are not being required to decode. I have had problems with browsers and with some of the smaller roku tvs. The jellyfin app does not transcode with the chip on them. Even 1080p drags an opi zero 3 to it''s knees in seconds, and that chip is supposed to native decode 264 and 265. I wasn't running docker. It was just straight armbian. Firefox also doesn't handle mkvs native, so same deal. Yes, i see that you tell people to just not transcode, but shouldn't it just work? I think the opiz3 I tried was the 4g.

[JibunnoKage-YouTube-Channel]

No heat sink? I find that the 3E and 3W both run quite hot... even with small heat sink on the main processor, still goes above 50 C, in which it throttles. I have ordered the recommended heat sink that seem to be quite large, almost the entire board (i.e. 3E and 3W).

[sihker]

Why do you call it a NAS? I did not see samba or nfs performance. Also, for dumb nas 4 cores is a bit of overkill, for opennas or something, 1 gb is lacking.

[protonspeed]

can you test different os on thid radxa.

[ThylineTheGay]

"this, a NAS? With you and what connectivity"

[garychap]

If you power it from GPIO, does that second USB 3 work for data... or is it power only?

[MegaFoster]

Hi, does it work well with kodi installed on it, using the micro hdmi? and will hdmi CEC work? Thanks

[valentinionita]

so this was running a jellyfin server on it? any transcode possible?