Seeed Studio Odyssey Blue Review
This is part of our ongoing partnership with seed studios, which provides high quality, single board computers and other edge computing solutions for edge networks, just like the flux network. So lets take a closer look at the odyssey Applause, Music Applause, Music, so Music Applause Music. Over on our website at runonflux.io, you can check out our partners page and we have seed studio listed here, theyve been around since 2008, founded with a vision of making technology accessible for all, and they definitely accomplish that with their edge computing devices like the odyssey which Ill be reviewing in this video, but you may be asking well what would i be doing with this particular device? Let me show you over on our flux, nodes page. You can see that we have three different tiers of flux nodes. Now these are the backbone of the flux network they run whatever applications are loaded onto the flux network and for edge computing were really kind of focused on the cumulus tier. This is the lowest barrier to entry. It only needs 1000 flux in order to stake and run a node and youll see that it needs only two cpu cores with four threads: eight gigs of ram and 220 gigs of nvme ssd. Now the nice thing about the seed studios odyssey is that it can pretty much accommodate all of that in a single computer. So lets take a closer look at what the odyssey has to offer over here on the seed studio website.
Thats s e e e d studio.com, you can check out the odyssey blue and the nice thing about the odyssey blue. In addition to already having a little bit of that flux, blue kind of color, it has the single board computer inside its own case and its really nice to have your own case. With these kind of things. A lot of single board computers do not come with the case, but this is a package deal and this particular option for 269. At the time of this, video comes with a quad core celeron j4125 processor, its pre loaded with windows 10, and it has a 128 gigabyte. External ssd now were not going to need that 128 gigabyte, external ssd, but theres really no other way to order this. So that you have all the specs that you need for the cumulus node, so what youll probably end up doing is, maybe you know pocketing the 128 gig or use it for something else, but youll have to purchase a separate nvme card, preferably something bigger than 220 Gigabytes right because thats our minimum size requirement for the ssd, but other than that it comes with eight gigabytes of lpddr4 ram. Its got dual nic and nice thing about this. It has a full size, hdmi output, so that makes it really easy to connect to your existing devices so that you can load it with all the software that you need so lets, go ahead and take a closer look at the device itself and heres the seed Odyssey check it out pretty cool little single board computer and case.
I really like this case. This is the blue case and the blue is really nice, its aluminum. It has a lot of really cool options like you can set it down like this or theres little feet on this side. So if you wanted to kind of stand it up like that, you could do it pretty cool this side. You could connect a couple of external antennae if you wanted for wi fi, they would just go through those holes there not a bad feature, but overall i mean it really is kind of something that fits in the palm of your hand. You know its not too big and you could kind of just set this right next to your router and it would. It would look really kind of sleek and nice lets. Take a look at the input output so, on this side here, weve got our power button. Dcn dual gigabit lan hdmi full size port, which is really nice and two usb 2.0 ports. On the other side, here weve got our sd card reader usb 3.0. Actually, i think its 3.1. Now this might be an older case here, but 3.1 type, a type c, and then weve got our media port there. On the back, you got little holes here that you could mount this to the back of a monitor which is pretty cool. It also has a fan input on the bottom and lots of ventilation on the sides here: theres, actually pretty decent sized heat sink over top of the cpu, so itll do a really good job of staying cool and, as for the inside, the way you get in There you just push this little button on the bottom and that pushes the cover open and theres just four little magnet spots there that hold the cover on so on.
The inside weve got some pretty cool features here. There is a cortex, its an arm, cortex arduino coprocessor in here, and i think, thats. What this connector is right here. I think thats a 24 pin connector if im not mistaken, and that is for those guys who, like to you, know, run things uh. Other devices connect other devices and stuff and have this control other things. Uh weve got the same kind of connector here, but a little bit bigger, thats, the one that you usually see on a raspberry pi, 4. um. Those are nice too, if you again want to run like i dont know an external uh camera, or something like that. You can have it do all kinds of things: itll send whatever you know, uh power signals you want to whatever devices but thats, not really. Why were looking at this device, its just kind of cool, to see that theyve incorporated both of those from both the arduino and the raspberry pi on one board here? So for those people who are interested in using that kind of feature – thats nice there is the wi fi chip right here for those external wi fi antennae and you can just click to connect the leads right. There weve got our m.2 nvme slot. So this is the key m m.2 thats, going to be the faster of the two options that you can use here and, although i dont have anything populated in it right now, if i had just a regular m.
2 laying around this could certainly handle it. You can do the full size version too, which is really nice. On the other side, though, youll see weve already got populated here in the other m.2 slot, a b key style m.2, and this is basically a sata 3 speed version, its a little slower than the key m version, but nevertheless, its definitely fast enough to run a Cumulus node, but lets say you didnt have either of those and you had maybe an old 2.5 inch ssd laying around as long as it was over 220 gigabytes. You could technically use that in here and weve got a little sata port right there. Can you see that theres like there is sata port and then weve also got some options here for power? Now i dont know that that this will come with the connectors right here. You may have to get them separate. I think at this day and age you know its just so simple to pick up one of these. This is a team group. I think these go for around 40 u.s for a 256 gigabyte size drive and thats enough to run a cumulus node, so you dont even have to really think about it. If you, but but if you did have something laying around like an old 2.5 inch, drive hey by all means, go ahead and use it, but this might not look as pretty when you cover it up with one of those drives its going to cover up.
Probably this this much of the case in there – and i dont really know exactly how you mount it. I think it might have something to do with that standoff right there and this one, but you may have to get some type of adapter or something to put the drive in here. Although i mean who really cares, you know you might just go ahead and pop it in there and plug it in and forget about it. You know. At least i mean i hate to say that like if it were me, thats, probably how i do it, but i like the aesthetic too, you know this is a nice case. You know so once you put it all together and kind of like stand it up. It yeah thats, pretty so thats a cool way to run a flux node. If you ask me and its pretty simple 269 bucks as of the making of this video, another 40 or so for the ssd pop it in and load your flux, software and youre ready to go youre off to the races i mean. So how much better? Can you get so thats my review of the seed odyssey stay tuned for a follow up video on how to install fluxnode on a device like this and as for the device itself? I really like the fact that it comes with a case theres, not that many single board computers out there that come with their own case like this one does, and i like the expandability for it, its probably one of the best values for the dollar right now.
There are a lot of other single board computers out there, but they dont all have the right features that you would need to run a flux node. So this is a really great option, so glad to be partnered up with seed studio check them out at seedstudio.
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