Kobol Team

January 7th, 2021

The Kobol Team is a group of passionate people based in Singapore who love to build and design their own network and data storage appliances. Our background ranges from aerospace industry to data science, gathering a wide spectrum of engineering skills and experiences. We strongly believe in open source and always held the vision to create an open platform to let people express their creativity and hack around. Helios4, the Open Source and Open Hardware Network Attached Storage, was our first project and our way to contribute back to the OSS community. After this first successful project, we decided to create the company Kobol Innovations Pte. Ltd. and to put all our energy in extending our range of NAS products and solutions.

KOBOL INNOVATIONS PTE. LTD. (the “Company”) is a Exempt Private Company Limited by Shares, incorporated on 22 June 2018 (Friday) in Singapore. The address of the Company’s registered office is at the TONG ENG BUILDING building. The Company’s principal activity is development of other software and programming activities n.e.c. with manufacture of computers and peripheral equipment n.e.c. as the secondary activity.

Vendors

Helios64 boad

January 7th, 2021
Helios64 Top View

Hardware Specifications

Soc
SoC ModelRockchip RK3399 – Hexacore
2x Cortex-A72 + 4x Cortex-A53
SoC ArchitectureARMv8-A 64-bit
CPU FrequencyA72 : 1.8GHz, A53 : 1.4GHz
Additional FeaturesGPU Mali-T860MP4
Memory
LPDDR4 RAM4GB
eMMC 5.1 NAND Flash16GB
SPI NOR Flash128Mb
HDD/SSD Interfaces
SATA 3.0 Ports5
M.2 SATA 3.0 Slot1 (shared with SATA port 1)
Max Raw Capacity80 TB (16 TB drive x 5)
External Interfaces
Multi-Gigabit LAN Port (2.5Gbe)1
Gigabit LAN Port (1Gbe)1
USB Type-C1
USB 3.03
microSD (SDIO 3.0)1
Developer Interfaces
GPIO16
I2C1
UEXT1
Others
PWM FAN2
On-Board HDD Poweryes
Built-in UPSyes
RTC Batteryyes
DC inputDual 12V inputs
Wake-on-LANyes
Front Panel Extensionyes

Boards

Helios64 Case

January 1st, 2021

Helios64 is a powerful ARM board specially designed for Network Attached Storage.

This product was developed by Kobol TEAM and announced on January 2, 2020.

It harnesses its processing capabilities from the Rockchip RK3399 SoC.

Links

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