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product_id: 249614896
title: "HARDKERNEL ODROID HC4: Home-Cloud, 4GB DDR4 RAM, Supports 2 Drives"
brand: "hardkernel"
price: "KSh3747"
currency: KES
in_stock: false
reviews_count: 6
url: https://www.desertcart.co.ke/products/249614896-hardkernel-odroid-hc4-home-cloud-4gb-ddr4-ram-supports-2
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region: Kenya
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# 4GB DDR4 RAM for lightning-fast performance 1GbE port for seamless high-speed networking Supports 2 drives for massive storage expansion HARDKERNEL ODROID HC4: Home-Cloud, 4GB DDR4 RAM, Supports 2 Drives

**Brand:** hardkernel
**Price:** KSh3747
**Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock

## Summary

> ☁️ Own your data, own your cloud – the future of home storage is here!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** HARDKERNEL ODROID HC4: Home-Cloud, 4GB DDR4 RAM, Supports 2 Drives by hardkernel
- **How much does it cost?** KSh3747 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Currently out of stock
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.ke](https://www.desertcart.co.ke/products/249614896-hardkernel-odroid-hc4-home-cloud-4gb-ddr4-ram-supports-2)

## Best For

- hardkernel enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted hardkernel brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Dual Drive Support:** Expand your home cloud effortlessly with two drive bays
- • **Blazing-Fast Memory:** 4GB DDR4 RAM ensures smooth multitasking and rapid data access
- • **Smart Boot Management:** 16MiB SPI flash chip enables Petitboot for flexible OS options
- • **Next-Level Connectivity:** 1GbE port and USB 2.0 for versatile, high-speed data transfer
- • **Sleek Transparent Design:** Modern casing showcases your tech with HDMI 2.0 output for crisp visuals

## Overview

The HARDKERNEL ODROID HC4 is a powerful home-cloud solution featuring 4GB DDR4 RAM, dual drive support, and a 1GbE port for fast networking. Its transparent case houses versatile connectivity options including HDMI 2.0 and USB 2.0, while the onboard 16MiB SPI flash chip supports Petitboot for flexible boot management. Note: power supply sold separately.

## Description

New Home-Cloud platform based on the same ARM CPU as the ODROID-C4. Power supply not included!

## Features

- 15V/4A power supply SOLD SEPARATELY!!!!
- Faster 4GB DDR4 RAM
- 16MiB SPI flash chip exists on the board for the useful Petitboot feature.
- 5.5mm DC power jack, UHS-1 compatible micro-SD slot, USB 2.0, HDMI 2.0 and 1GbE port are available on the rear side of the transparent shell case.

## Product Details

- **Brand:** HARDKERNEL
- **Operating System:** Linux
- **CPU Model:** Cortex
- **Graphics Card Description:** Dedicated
- **Graphics Coprocessor:** ARM Mali GPU
- **Memory Storage Capacity:** 4 GB
- **Specific Uses For Product:** Everyday Use
- **Personal computer design type:** Computer Tower
- **Ram Memory Installed Size:** 4 GB
- **Model Name:** ODROID HC4

## Images

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great little device. Just a tip to watch out for though
*by A***R on September 9, 2021*

This thing was awesome! Ran openmediavault on it, reliable, quiet, ran smooth and at great temps, and surprisingly performed better than I expected. It’s clearly designed for one purpose - NAS. Don’t be expecting to run multiple containers with top performance.Unfortunately, it suffered a mobo failure a month in to me having it, but I don’t believe that to be the designs fault. Rather, it wasn’t on a surge protector, and it was plugged into a PoE switch, said it wasn’t supplying it power, but Im sure that may of influenced it. Don’t spend 600+ on a Synology for storage, you got a beautifully capable device here that can do it.Oh, one last thing, the 3.5 disks fit relatively snug. The 2.5s are flimsily held, SSDs are recommended in that case because they latch much better and are less sensitive to vibrational trauma.EDIT:Bought another one shortly after this, been running smooth (6+ months) no signs of faultyness now that I have it plugged into to a proper surge protected outlet.

### ⭐⭐⭐ Works, but has issues...
*by D***N on October 30, 2021*

Update:After a month online the board has performed its function with no issues. However, when the board is powered off for any reason it is unable to continue to track date and time due to its lack of a CMOS battery. This is an important issue, since having an inaccurate date/time stamp on data files when restarted could lead to newly edited files being dated earlier than their predecessors and lead to possible corruption of the files Clearly, unlike a desktop or laptop PC, the board is simply designed to be powered up constantly, day or night, rain or shine. If you ever shut it down, be certain you manually reset date and time after restart.Original post:I bought this board specifically to run Open Media Vault based on its great reviews. It's basically designed to run headless and is a good board for the purpose, but it's not perfect. Given it's special purpose build, it's good for a NAS application but lacks features to support most other purposes.Pros:* The SATA III drive interface is far faster than Raspberry Pi units that depend on USB for external drives and probably makes it the best available board for NAS applications.* Memory is included on the board, unlike some other single board computer designs.* It's very fast running OMV.Cons:* The "toaster" case is an awkward design. The slots fit fine for full sized HDD's, but more modern 2 1/2 inch drives just more or less balance precariously in the full sized slots. There's an enormous amount of sloppy wiggle room if the smaller drives are used, which could lead to destroying the drive or board's SATA connection. The case design might be great for drives that are frequently removed, but for its purpose as a server with permanently installed drives it makes no sense.* The board will not wake up if put to sleep using standard linux commands, either from inside OMV or from root. The Hardkernal website specifically says this board supports this function, but sleep commands using wake up parameters all fail to wake the machine; systemctl, systemd, rtcwakeup, pm-suspend, etc., etc., using standby, suspend, mem, hibernate, etc., etc., all universally shut the unit completely off and it will not awake when scheduled. The only way to resume is to remove power from the board and let it reboot. This is a major annoyance when your operating strategy is to have the unit powered down on a scheduled basis.* It only has a single USB port, which means that any root configuration that requires a mouse must have the mouse function integrated into the keyboard, either through a keyboard touchpad or a keyboard USB port the mouse can plug into.Note that the board comes with only enough operating system installed to get it to boot. Be prepared to find and install your linux distro of choice. Also note that OMV only works with Debian Buster as of this writing.To resolve the flimsy drive mount issue, I removed the board from the case and mounted it on a piece of ABS plastic. I connected the drives with SATA connection extension adapters and mounted the power supply on a "hat" on top. This is totally silent and works great for me.https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NURHUSU?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_product_detailsThe long term reliability of this board is unknown at this point. It may be perfectly fine for your app if you don't intend to use any of the features in the Con list above. I was specifically looking for those features, so their failure is a disappointment to me. Based on this, I don't know if I would buy it again.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Easy DIY two-bay NAS
*by D***. on April 22, 2022*

Odroid offers a couple OSs with rather poorly translated instructions to install out the box. I went with Armbian as this replaced an older Cubox I had running the same thing. Bit of extra work but it runs fast, quiet and low power. Two 3.5" drives installed, mirrored, running 24/7 so far so good. Plastic case and fan aren't great but if you're putting this away in a closet or corner you forget about it anyway. One usb port for ingest if fine, haven't tried a usb hub

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