Few technical questions

[Electr1]

Hello @atohmdiy
and welcome to the community

here is some answers to your question

@atohmdiy

I will use the first one with the kksb case, i was looking to build a mpd player for my home hifi system and it will look great ! I will put my music on a 500gb nvme ssd, but this case seems thin, i hope the m.2 ssd will fit ?

the KKSB case will not accept the usage of the M2X board, but you can 3D print your own enclosure or get it printed from a service, 3D design files for such a case are available and for example you can get them here

@atohmdiy

Secondly i want to use one with the tone board to use it change the sound system of my car. It’s a long time i am working on this project and i never took the time to finish it… I was looking for an all-in-one player and dac of good quality, and the tone looks pretty. But i have two questions :
Do you know of the volume control is working ? Is there a hardware mixer on this board ? I don’t like software mixer and it would be good if the volume control is easily accessible (i mean if it could be externalize).
Also my amp have balanced input, so i would prefer to stay balanced for all the chain. The tone has two unbalanced rca but i saw on the shop that khadas will sold balanced 3 pin rca soon. I don’t understand however how this will work, the tone doesn’t seems to have the footprint to these connectors ?

these questions can be answered by the upcoming Tone board v2 release, @Gouwa has given us leaks where volume control knob and balanced RCA plugs have been observed, stay tuned for that

@atohmdiy

Lastly, i want to build a classic kodi box, but i want to put my film collection on it (don’t need to share it, no need for the nas thing), and everything must be arround 6TB of data… I own two 5tb hdd but i want to switch to ssd for some times, and there is a new 8tb sata ssd at a decent price now…
So i am looking for a m.2 to sata board, found this : https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/32858659048.html
But will it work with the vim ?

sadly SATA SSDs will not work with the onboard NVMe slot as it is a PCIe 2.0 1x and is not compatible with AHCI/SATA

I hope these answers solve your questions

Cheers!