I stumbled upon this Hardware Haven video about the Zimaboard recently. I liked it a lot. I finally bought one. In short, Zimaboard is a small single-board computer that is relatively affordable and comes with an interesting selection of ports, which includes an exposed PCI Express port. Before we get down to the build, here’s a list of aspects that I want to see in my dream home server: low power usage (2-15W typical power usage) 8GB of RAM or better enough performance to run my workloads, most of which are containerized 2x SATA or NVMe SSD slots, plus option for a third drive for the OS passively cooled and completely silent compact size gigabit Ethernet or better You might be thinking, “Wait, that’s your dream setup?