ODROID-HC4-P KIT

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ODROID-HC4-P KIT

Consists of ODROID-HC4 board, a case made of a rigid PCB that can mount two 3.5-inch HDDs horizontally, cooling fan, cables and bolts. It’s your own network storage device that you can enjoy creating yourself, and the HC4’s Petitboot function and various latest OS support can be used without any changes. Please note that this product cannot mount any 2.5-inch storage device.

Note! This KIT does NOT include OLED+RTC for HC4-P. (Sold individually)

Board Detail

A	CPU (Amlogic S905X3)	H	2x System LED indicators
B	DDR4 memory (4GiB)	I	1x UART for system console
C	2x SATA ports	J	1x IR receiver
D	1x RJ45 Ethernet port (10/100/1000)	K	5x GPIO pins (for optional OLED display)
E	1x HDMI 2.0	L	1x Micro SD slot
F	1x USB 2.0 host port	M	1x Cooling fan
G	1x DC power jack (Outer diameter : 5.5mm, inner diameter 2.1mm)	N	1x Boot switch

Block diagram

SATA interface performance

We connected a SATA SSD to the HC4 platform and measured the storage IO throughput. We could observe 390~420MB/s transfer speed which is not saturated at the maximum level ~500MB/s which is quite good for many applications.

odroid@hc4:/media/ssd2$ iozone -e -I -a -s 100M -r 4k -r 16384k -i 0 -i 1 -i 2

       Iozone: Performance Test of File I/O

               Version $Revision: 3.489 $

               Compiled for 64 bit mode.

               Build: linux-arm

                                                             random    random     

             kB  reclen    write  rewrite    read    reread    read     write     

         102400       4    44097    62373    75362    75511    39859    60806 

         102400   16384   428515   426902   390226   392564   391412   427137

SMB/CIFS network file transfer performance over the Gbit Ethernet connection

As shown below Windows OS client shows a sustainable 100+ MB/s transfer speed when we download/upload large files.

Downloading

Uploading

Helios LAN Test Result

Samsung 860 EVO 250GB SSD

Seagate Barracuda 2TB HDD (ST2000DM006)

Power Consumption

Note 1: ST2000DM006 spin-down power consumption is 0.75W per HDD. Therefore, the HC4 idle mode power consumption is about 4W.

Note 2: Power consumption in Active state is tested while copying huge files through SAMBA service.

Note 3: Wake-up sources for the Suspend mode: Wake-on-LAN, IR remote receiver and RTC Alarm.

Software Support

Petitboot can find the OS on the SD card, the HDD or the SSD. So even if you do not have an SD card but you have a plugged-in HDD or SSD that has an OS installed, Petitboot will boot the HC4 using the OS from the HDD or SSD. Debian/Ubuntu OS can run with the Hardkernel’s preinstalled OS image or Debian/Ubuntu Netboot Installer which you can obtain from the ODROID forum.

Supported Linux kernel versions are:

4.9.230 or newer (Hardkernel stock OS version)
Mainline kernel 5.15 or newer (Unofficial version from ODROID forum)

Specifications

FORM FACTOR	Board Dimensions: 84mm x 90.5mm x 25.0mm Transformation KIT Dimensions : 225mm x 106mm x 127mm Weight: 615g including board and transformation KIT without HDD
PROCESSOR	Amlogic S905X3 Processor L1 instruction cache: 32 KB, 4-way set associative (128 sets), 64 byte lines, shared by 1 processor L1 data cache: 32 KB, 4-way set associative (128 sets), 64 byte lines, shared by 1 processor L3 data cache: 512KB , 16-way set associative (512 sets), 64 byte lines, shared by 4 processorsQuad-Core Cortex-A55 (1.800GHz) ARMv8-A architecture with Neon and Crypto extensions Mali-G31 MP2 GPU with 4 x Execution Engines (650Mhz)
MEMORY	DDR4 4GiB with 32-bit bus width Data rate: 2640 MT/s (PC4-21333 grade) 1.2Volt low power design
STORAGE	1x Micro SD slot (DS/HS mode up to UHS-I SDR104)
NETWORKING	1 x GbE LAN ports (RJ45, supports 10/100/1000 Mbps) – Realtek RTL8211F (Ethernet transceiver) – LED indicators * Green LED: Flashing by data traffics at 100Mbps connection * Amber LED: Flashing by data traffics at 1000Mbps connection
VIDEO	1 x HDMI 2.0 (up to 4K@60Hz with HDR, CEC, EDID)
AUDIO	1 x HDMI digital output
COOLER	Passive heatsink ( 40x32x10 mm ) on the CPU of PCB board Bearing : Hydraulic Bearing FAN – Rated Voltage : 5V – Rated Current : 0.2A – Max Speed RPM : 2000RPM – Air Flow CFM : 33 – Air Pressure (In H2O) : 0.08 – Noise Level(dBA) : 26.5 – Dimension : 92X92X25MM – Wire & Connector : 150mm, 4pin 1.25mm pitch
EXTERNAL I/O	1 x USB 2.0 host port 1 x Debug serial console (UART) 2 x SATA Connectors
OTHER FEATURES	IR receiver for remote controller System LED Indicators: – Red (POWER) – Solid light when DC power is connected – Blue (ALIVE) – Flashing like heartbeat while Kernel is running.
POWER	1 x DC jack : outer (negative) diameter 5.5mm, inner (positive) diameter 2.1mm DC input : 14.5V ~ 15.5V – DC 15V/4A power adaptor is recommended. Sold separately. Power consumption with two ST2000DM006 HDDs : – IDLE(with HDD in spin-down) : ≃ 5.88W – Active(using SAMBA): ≃ 15.59W – Suspend: ≃ 0.29W