Level Up Your Homelab With The Raspberry Pi CM4 Compute Blade

Today we’re taking a look at the Compute Blade, a rack-mountable PoE carrier board for a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. These are designed to allow you to stack up to 20 blades, each carrying a CM4 module, into 1U of 19“ rack space. So you’re able to create a low-profile cluster with 80 ARM cores, up to 160GB of RAM and up to 160TB of NVMe storage. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION --------------------------------------------------- Compute Blade Kickstarter campaign - Compute Blade website - Visit my blog for the write-up & enclosure CAD files - PURCHASE LINKS --------------------------------------------------- Compute Blade - Raspberry Pi CM4 Module - Crucial NVME Drive - Noctua 40 x 20 Fan - Equipment Used Gweike Cloud Laser - Power Meter – Some of the above parts are affiliate links. By purchasing products through the above links, you’ll be supporting this channel, at no additional cost to you. CHAPTERS --------------------------------------------------- 0:00 Intro 0:56 Look Around The Board 2:37 CM4 Module & Drive 3:47 Fan Enclosure 4:42 Reflashing The Bootloader 5:37 Drive Speed Testing 6:27 Thermal Testing 7:37 Energy Consumption 7:52 Final Thoughts If you’ve got any ideas for Raspberry Pi, Arduino, or other Electronics projects or tutorials you’d like to see, let me know in the comments section.