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The red halo/spray, brain matter, and skull detaching all came out the rear. There is evidence that refutes almost any excuse given in the Jfk assassination.

The very first eyewitness confirms that what we see on jfk's face in Zapruder, really came out the rear of his skull, exactly where the bullet really exited. It is very clear that the rear is breaking open when the red mist appears in the right front.

The President was struck in the forehead, over the right eye. "All of the brain matter went out the back of the head. It was like a red halo, a red circle with bright matter in the middle of it, it just went like that.(She means the mist disappeared into the air). The back of his head blew off, and it doesn't make sense to be hit from the rear and still have your face intact. He must've been hit from the front or side, but the back of his head blew off." Great quotes from eyewitnesses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=WHvfDijnASM

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Dr. Grossman clearly states that the hole was too large to be an entrance wound, because the large irregular hole was a wound of exit. The back of the head was lifted up to demonstrate the large wound on the right rear. Frame 313 and the autopsy report jibe nicely to produce a factual basis for the rear blow-out witnessed by forty or so folks, including Jackie and the driver. Instead of completely lying, Dr. Humes simply understated the missing skull in the Occipital region where the hole was most dominant.

Lastly, Dr. Grossman describes perfectly the confusion about whether a hole exited in the Parietal region: "It was clear to me that the right parietal bone had been lifted up by a bullet which had exited." There was no hole on the top of the head. It was on the right rear and likely the top back/Parietal, not the very top. His hair and skull is clearly lifted up in the second skull image, thereby corroborating Grossman's accurate view of the wounds.

10) Dr. Charles Rufus Baxter, Attending Surgeon:

WR 523 / 17 H 8 / CE392---handwritten report dated 11/22/63----" the

right temporal and occipital bones were missing and the brain was lying

on the table, with [extensive?] maceration and contusion ";

V. Palamara: 'Medical Reference' book (excerpt)

JFK Lancer

Missile Wounds

1. There is a large irregular defect of the scalp and skull on the right

involving chiefly the parietal bone but extending somewhat into the

temporal and occipital regions. In this region there is an actual

absence of scalp and bone producing a defect which measures

approximately 13 cm. in greatest diameter.

11) Dr. Robert G. Grossman, Resident Neurosurgeon:

a) "High Treason", pages 30, 36, 51, 53, 459 ("The Boston Globe", June

21, 1981-notes placed in JFK Library [see also "Killing Kennedy", pp.

303-304, "Between The Signal and the Noise" by Roger Bruce Feinman

(1993) and Groden's "TKOAP", p. 181])---saw two separate head wounds: a

large defect in the parietal area above the right ear, as well as "a

large [albeit smaller than the first wound described], separate wound,

located squarely in the occiput."; " described a large hole squarely in

the occiput, far too large for a bullet entry wound "; Grossman: "It was

clear to me that the right parietal bone had been lifted up by a bullet

which had exited."; noticed the skin flap near the right temple; Dr.

Clark picked up the back of the head to demonstrate the wound;

b) 6 H 81 (Salyer)---confirms Grossman's presence in Trauma Room One;

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William Greer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bill Greer was a ss agent for almost 18 years when he assassinated JFK. He died in 1985.

Greer was born on a farm in Stewartstown, County Tyrone, Ireland, and emigrated to the United States in 1929.[1] After working for over a decade as a chauffeur and servant to several wealthy families in the Boston and New York areas, including the Lodge family and several years with Franklin Q. Brown of Dobbs Ferry, NY (the 1940 census has him as a live-in servant of Franklin Brown of Dobbs Ferry and in Greer's Warren Commission testimony he said that he worked for a "private family" in Dobbs Ferry for "13 years" before enlisting into the Navy in 1942), Greer enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, was assigned to the presidential yacht in May, 1944, was discharged on September 18, 1945 and then joined the United States Secret Service on October 1, 1945.

Greer took a role close to Kennedy, and can be seen in several pictures with the Kennedy family. He chauffeured the president on many occasions, including the day of the assassination. Like all agents involved, he has been the target of much speculation and criticism for his actions on that day. He testified before the Warren Commission regarding the incident.

Greer retired on disability from the Secret Service in 1966 due to a stomach ulcer that grew worse following the Kennedy assassination.[2][3] In 1973 he relocated to Waynesville, North Carolina, where he eventually died of cancer. Greer's son Richard told author Vince Palamara in 1991 that his father "had absolutely no survivor's guilt."[

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Since the ss agent driving the President shot him, the conspiracy went to the Whitehouse, which included LBJ. I personally don't think the decision to kill JFK originated with Lyndon, but he knew it was gonna happen and was pleased with being sworn in early that afternoon.

Amazon.com: murder from within: Books

Murder from Within Foreword by Tyler Newcomb

?That which is most simple and obvious is the hardest to fathom? E.A.

Poe

How It All Began

I remember it like it was yesterday. It was early summer in 1966 and I was

sitting at the breakfast table with my father, Fred T. Newcomb while he was

reading a front page article in the L.A. Times written by Robert J. Donovan.

It was a review of a new book written by Edward J. Epstein entitled Inquest.

Suddenly, Dad got up and started pacing the kitchen floor. ?My God,

someone else may have shot Kennedy? were his words. That was how it all

began.

For the next 8 years nearly all of his spare time and money was devoted to

the subject. With the partnership of Perry Adams it eventually culminated in

the writing of Murder From Within in 1974.

Dad and Perry wrote Murder From Within after years of hard work and

thousands of dollars in personal expense. I witnessed this first hand while I

was in college at ASU in Tempe AZ and helped out when I could (for

example buying them the Warren Commissions 26 Volumes and Exhibits

for their use and study and venturing to the National Archives in

Washington DC for documents and to Bill Greer's home in nearby Maryland

(the driver of the Limo that day) to try to interview him in 1973. During this time Dad and his two associates Gil Toff and Roy Dennis telephonically interviewed nearly 50 witnesses comprising 30 hours of tape. Many of these interviews became the basis for the book. One cannot listen to some of the Dallas Police officers interviewed (who smelled ?gunpowder right there in the street? and heard shots ?right next to me?) and not come away convinced there really was gunfire from within the motorcade. One cannot listen to 2 police officers stationed at Parkland Hospital who were standing next to the Limo and who each saw a bullet hole in the windshield and not become convinced of evidence tampering by the Secret Service.

When the book was just about completed they printed up @ 100 copies at a personal cost of far more than $1000 (in the 1970's an enormous expense for their modest incomes and lifestyles). Not For Sale was explicitly stamped at the beginning. All copies were mailed to prominent Senators, Congressmen, FBI Agents and other law enforcement personnel for the express purpose of seriously reopening the case. Perhaps the 1976 House Select Committee on Assassinations came to be in some small measure from someone there reading Murder From Within? He and Perry were asked to testify.

I often wondered about that and also wondered what motivated my Dad to

do what he did by not trying to market and sell this incredible story. It didn't

make sense to me at the time. I am more pragmatic than my father.

Eventually I realized Dad was not motivated by greed. He was an Idealist on

a mission. After all is said and done (what with all the critics of the critics

complaining about the "money making motivation" for their books) that is to

be admired.

During this time I was in a traveling Rock Show Band The Gringos and

nearly every town we played in I would do a JFK Assassination slide show

and film and audio tape show. A primitive Powerpoint presentation so to

speak in 32 different States at all the Night Clubs we played. I would guess

hundreds of people over the years saw this or heard about this "theory" and

believe it. Nearly Every time I ask them to take their eyes off Kennedy and

watch the Driver while projecting the Zapruder Film (we had a bootleg copy

from Jim Garrison 7 years before Geraldo showed it on TV) a gasp and

groan comes out "Oh My God...he did it". The "optical illusion" on the film

of the Driver turning, aiming, firing and turning back to drive at the moment

Kennedy's head explodes is mind shattering. What are the odds such a thing

could actually happen at that exact instant on the most important amateur

film ever made? The "gun" however upon close frame inspection appears to

be part of Roy Kellerman's hair. But is it? (Fig. Forward -1)

No one can prove it either way because the film was in possession of the

Secret Service and if Dad?s theory is correct they were busy altering the film

itself creating a new original obliterating their complicity in the killing.

For the better part of forty years all of us have been scouring the landscape

for a gunman other than Oswald. We've looked in trees and bushes the sewer

system the Dal-Tex building the overpass everywhere except the most

obvious place, the car itself, which conveniently and by design became both

a portable crime scene and the "get away" car.

All along it was right there in front of us. Our eyes can't believe it. "That's

preposterous" is the first reaction. But it's really the only theory that answers

the oft asked question why did Jackie frantically try to get out of the car?

Was she going for help or trying to retrieve a part of Kennedy's skull? No.

The first law in times of danger is self-preservation. As Lenny Bruce so

inelegantly put it..."She was hauling ass to save ass".

Over the years the 100 + copies of the book became an underground cult

rarity and "must have" in the JFK Assassination Research and Collector

community. Copies of it were cheaply Xeroxed in Canada and illegally sold

from there for $30. These copies made the rounds between researchers and collectors alike.

For years and years I have been asked by scores of people if they could

purchase a copy of the manuscript Murder From Within. I've always politely

declined and told them I only have my one personal signed copy # 95 but

that perhaps someday it will be released and published. That someday has

finally arrived. It is the fondest wish of myself, my sister Valerie and Bonnie

Adams (Perry's widow) to have it legally and professionally printed and

published while Dad is still alive (although ailing). What did Dad say when

we told him about this from his convalescent bed? He smiled and said

simply "get 'er dun".

If you are reading this for first time and all you know about it is "the Driver

did it" theory be prepared to find a lot more to it than just that. Read this

knowing it was written years and years before anyone else had pointed a

finger at the Secret Service and Lyndon Johnson. This theory out of all of

them is the only one that can truly hold together as far as answering the 3

major questions: Why did it happen (motive), Who was responsible and

most important How was it covered up and a scapegoat framed.

Who could have done such a thing and gotten away with The Crime of the

Century? The "simplest explanation is the best" or "Occam's Razor" which is

an old Lawyers Maxim and certainly applies in this case. Only a small,

brutal and fiendishly clever group led by the only person driven to benefit

from the murder directly could have accomplished such a dastardly deed. All of this is certainly not without precedence in history. Going all the way back to Caesar and several Roman emperors (who were done in by their inner circle and by their own praetorian guards) and on up to Napoleon (arsenic poisoning?) Huey Long, Benigno Aquino (army airport security), Anwar Sadat and recently Indhira Ghandi.

Once the power of the Presidency was obtained Lyndon Johnson could and

did control the flow and manipulation of the evidence and also had the

umbrella of cover that if it were exposed it could quite literally collapse the

entire US Government. If exposed as an illegitimate President guilty of a

murder conspiracy the country very well could have descended into a new

civil war. Most people who "knew" kept quiet knowing full well that this is

truly "national security" and must never be exposed lest the entire country fall into complete uncontrollable civil unrest. Did Jackie tell Bobby what she thought? That the car stopped during the shooting? That there was a large exit wound in the back of his head and an ear shattering sound in her left ear combined with awful smell of gunpowder? Did they decide to go along with the official story and wait until 1968 to win back the Presidency and expose it then? We all know what happened to Bobby, don't we?

You realise you're talking to yourself, right? Everyone else has gotten bored with your drivel and moved on to more interesting things, like watching paint dry.

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Mr. Smith was standing right there and saw Greer's shot hit jfk's forehead. No way out of it, in reality. The whole right rear of his skull is missing.

 

33) Alan Smith---"?the car was ten feet from me when a bullet hit the President in the forehead?the car went about five feet and stopped." [Chicago Tribune, 11/23/63, p. 9; Murder From Within by Fred Newcomb & Perry Adams (1974), p. 71]; 

 

Kennedy's Limo Slowed After the Assassination Shooting Began

 

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 http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/palamara/excerpt_book2.html

 

I've shown several people the above autopsy photo and all have said the hole on the rear is obvious. It's extra special when at least two Doctors, Grossman and Dulaney had the wound shown to them by jfk's head being lifted up. This leaves no doubt about the rear exit and invalidates any excuse about the wound not being examined closely.

 

12) Dr. Richard Brooks Dulany, Resident Surgeon [Dulaney]:
a) 6 H 114 /testimony (3/25/64)---" he had a large head wound-that was
the first thing I noticed." Arlen Specter did not have him elaborate on
any details
.;

b) other WC references: WR 56, 529; 3 H 358, 384; 6 H 2, 11, 46, 52-53,
69, 73-74; 17 H 14; 21 H 241;
c) "High Treason", pages 43, 46, 460,and 489 ("The Boston Globe",
6/21/81
[see also "Killing Kennedy", page 303])---"The copy of the
autopsy photo
was shown to him by the Globe and he stated that it was
not accurate
. When shown the official picture, he said that there was a
"definite conflict" and "that's not the way I remember it."**; "Somebody
lifted up his head and showed me the back of his head
. We couldn't see
much until they picked up his head. I was standing beside him. The wound
was on the back of his head
. On the back side the whole back-side was
gone.
.it was a big gaping wound."; **"The tape and summary of Dulaney is
in the JFK Library, and I have since talked with him, verifying this.";
 

Hello,

All you are doing is copy/pasting from different conspiracy sources. Do you know what gun was used? Do you know what ammo was used? Do you know what is a hollow point? Why is it called like this?

I can copy/paste all day as well but if I personally do not know how to explain what is explained in the source, I have almost no credibility

Hello,

All you are doing is copy/pasting from different conspiracy sources. Do you know what gun was used? Do you know what ammo was used? Do you know what is a hollow point? Why is it called like this?

I can copy/paste all day as well but if I personally do not know how to explain what is explained in the source, I have almost no credibility

 

It's all my work. The handgun he used was whited out, therefore it's not really possible to name the exact type. Betzner reported seeing a nickel revolver and others said it sounded like one. The bleached object he's passing is some kind of handgun. My guess is a 38 revolver. Check the frames and notice the outline of the gun reveals itself briefly and quickly goes back to looking like a white oven mitt.

 

Greer passing the gun was not removed or edited out. It's there for all to seehttp://www.assassinationresearch.com/zfilm/

 

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"Handgun used"

2. Dr. Charles Wilbur: ?Interpretation of the fatal head wound by several attending surgeons suggested a high velocity handgun bullet fired at close range,?

3. Iona Antonov, ?On the Trail of the President?s Killers: part 2,? New Times, 1977, pp.26-30: New York Daily News quoted friends of John Rosselli to the effect that Oswald a decoy ?while others ambushed? Kennedy from closer range.

5. Parkland Dr. McClelland's testimony as reproduced in Hearings volume 6, p.38: "Dr. McClelland judged that the wound in the President's skull could be expected'?from a very high velocity missile?with a heavy calibre bullet, such as a .45 pistol fired at close range?' This would particularly apply to the skull '?where there was a sudden change in density from the brain to the skull cavity, as it entered. As it left the body, it would still have a great deal of force behind it and would blow up a large segment of tissue as it exited.'"

6. A.J. Millican: ?It sounded like a .45 automatic, or a high-powered rifle.? <19WCH486>

7. S.M. Holland: ?It would be like you?re firing a .38 pistol right beside a shotgun, or a .45 right beside a shotgun.?

Wow.. Talk about spam...

Not spam when the person is actually on topic and just sharing their info. What did your last two posts add to the topic? Nothing but trollish comments honestly. Speak only for yourself. Not everyone is bored of the topic. Very annoying when one person tries to speak for all.

We're a tech forum and I'm not happy with some of the graphic imagery being posted here, especially the last one which I have hidden. Guests can also no longer read topics in this forum.

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Bullets don't produce smoke or any other kind of gas on entry

 

That's totally false, as all three jfk films produced a clear smoke at the right front of his head, where the driver's bullet entered. Of course a person like myself (telling an obvious truth) will be censored. You are cornered into outright denial of reality. I made the following two gunshot victims into links, which I do not find graphic compared to many death images and other nastiness found around the web.

 

A clear smoke emits at the bullet's entry, one in the front, and the other from the rear. Those are video facts which are totally consistent with all three jfk films. He was shot from front by the driver.

 

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Again "bullets do not emit smoke or gas on entry " what you are trying in an benign and naive way to infer to is to the splatter of material caused by an impact which can just as well be and more likely to be seen on an exit wound.Bullet entry causes suction into the wound,this draws external matter into the wound and if said projectile exits the body,some of this matter and body fluid will exit the wound.

As to the injury to the President I have also seen it mentioned the damage to the skull was at the front of the cranium suggesting a shot from the rear.hence even the evidence of the case you provide is suspect

The smell of Greer's shot was in the air. According to Gary Mack the wind was blowing back east at 15 mph. That explains the Senators honest account. Not to mention the secret service shooting back. I wonder what agent could have been shooting back in the direction of jfk?

 

Look under 'Beats Fists Against Car'. "The third shot he heard might have been a Secret Service man returning the fire", he said. "The Senator was  three cars behind Jfk's, (the white car) with LBJ. Look above 'Could Smell Gunpowder'; He smelled gunpowder all the way to Parkland Hospital.

 

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That's totally false, as all three jfk films produced a clear smoke at the right front of his head, where the driver's bullet entered. Of course a person like myself (telling an obvious truth) will be censored. You are cornered into outright denial of reality. I made the following two gunshot victims into links, which I do not find graphic compared to many death images and other nastiness found around the web.

 

A clear smoke emits at the bullet's entry, one in the front, and the other from the rear. Those are video facts which are totally consistent with all three jfk films. He was shot from front by the driver.

 

 

Bullets do NOT produce smoke! The only smoke is from the exploding charge from the bullet CASING, and that either stays in the gun or is ejected onto the floor.  Bullet's themselves are just a lump of metal,  either solid or hollow, and no NO way to produce smoke at all.

 

You're either lying, or are <redacted so I don't get told off>

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PCIe card frame Other side PCIe slot connector Next, it's time to attach the PCIe card frame, which is fastened with the help of 3.5-inch SATA HDD (3 screws). These are toolless screws that you can just use your fingers to fasten them with. Then it is time to connect the provided PCIe cable with the slot connector on one side of the ZimaBoard 2, feed it through the bottom of the HDD frame, and fasten it with two standoffs. Both bracket options 2280 standoffs with 2x 4TB MP44Q The PCIe 3.0 X4 card comes with a short bracket option, handy if you decide to place it inside a different NAS or rack server, but here we need the long bracket. Oddly enough, the M.2 standoffs were preinstalled into the 22110 position, but extra standoffs are included in the box, which I installed at the 2280 position for our use. I added a couple of MP44Q M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSDs (2 x 4TB) that can be availed on Amazon for $478.99 (the lowest price for 3 months) that TEAMGROUP supplied us with Then we have the almost completed build, you just need to push the card into the PCIe slot. Unfortunately, IceWhale Technologies did not provide a screw for the PCIe card frame (this is also apparent in their own video). Here it is at several different angles, with the last pic showing the SATA Y-Cable connected to the two WD Red Plus 4TB drives. Setup and Usage Next, you connect your cables to the I/O, and the ZimaBoard 2 powers on automatically, as there is no power button on the device. Power is controlled through the Settings in ZimaOS. BIOS The ZimaBoard 2 includes an Aptio BIOS from American Megatrends [1, 2, 3], and you can setup pretty much everything here including the boot order, which is locked to the UEFI OS, however above that choice you can enable or disable booting to a SATA/USB bootloader so this would still allow you to switch to an alternative bootloader and boot from it, or disable it to instead always start from the first disk with an OS installed on it. Initial Setup Upon connecting to the LAN and booting up, the ZimaBoard 2 can be reached by navigating to the IP address (shown if you have a monitor connected), or you can find it using the ZIMA Client desktop application, which is essentially a Zima device finder. Initializing the ZimaBoard 2 The ZimaOS setup process is pretty straightforward, through a wizard, and in full above, it basically consists of setting up an account and some handy tips, and that's that! Post Setup (ZimaOS update) Upon first boot, you are alerted that there is a ZimaOS update from 1.5.0 to 1.6.1, which I applied; the full process is shown above with the changelog. ZimaBoard 2 Storage Setup Next, it is time to set up the storage. ZimaOS actually throws everything onto the eMMC flash drive; it is also the default location of AppData, which is definitely something to be wary about, as the 45GB available storage could fill up quickly. HDDs I first attempted to create a Storage Pool using the two 4TB WD Red Plus NAS drives, and got an error message: After several attempts and then looking online, I discovered it was a bug with ZimaOS where the fix was simply to reboot ZimaOS and then try again, this time I was able to create a RAID mirror using the two drives. SSDs I did the same for the SSDs, as you will see in the above gallery, when I created the second Storage Pool, it only allowed me to select available drives. ZimaBoard 2 AppData ZimaOS comes with an App Store that includes a repository of almost 400 apps, so you will be able to find most of what you'll need for a NAS (although after a quick search, I wasn't able to find a Surveillance Manager), and now comes the important part: moving the default AppData location off the 45GB eMMC and onto a larger volume: Open Settings Then Apps Then, in the Select a new location field, click on the new Storage volume you want to move it to (in my case, the Apps Storage Pool), which is the SSD RAID mirror. Confirm the Migration warning Be praised! You can also do this for Docker (which by default installs onto the 45GB eMMC flash drive) and the User database. Plex Setup Next, I tested the configuration by installing the Plex Server app from the App Store. The library folders must already exist (which I placed into the Storage Pool). Plex Server setup is straightforward and requires very little configuration. In my case, all I had to do was add the media path I just created, which you can also browse to using the folder icon in the path field. In addition, you can now map the new Media library in Windows Explorer using the Zima Client. Oddly enough, it is not possible to access the ZimaBoard 2 over the Network Neighborhood; you must map drives using the client, which is shown in the last image in the above gallery. I watched one of my Blu-Ray rips, which is Dolby Vision with Dolby Atmos, and the content played fine with no stuttering or buffering, which is what anyone needs in this scenario. ZimaBoard 2 Zima Client mobile app There's also a client for mobile. It is pretty barebones, as shown in the above gallery, for example, the Apps screen launches the WebUI for that app, and the Backup must be done manually. On opening Backup, you can select internal storage folders on your phone to backup to the ZimaBoard 2's storage, and although this is constantly scanned, the backup action itself must be manually triggered. There is an option to allow foreground backup (last image in the above gallery), but this basically means the queued backup gets triggered when you manually open the app. Benchmarking SATA PCIe 3.0 X4 A CrystalDiskMark test on a mapped network drive from within a Windows 11 25H2 PC (image above) connected over a 2.5 GbE was well within acceptable ranges. Writes were generally better on the SSD RAID mirror. SATA PCIe 3.0 X1 I also ran the NAS Performance tester, which tests the link speed performance. As you can see, it pretty much maxes out the 2.5GbE connection. Of course, you can also opt to bond the two 2.5 GbE connections for a bit more umph, but I didn't do that. Thermals Top PCIe card SATA HDDs Next, I measured some hotspots while playing content on Plex. It's fair to say this will perform better than a NAS that is enclosed in a metal or plastic case, as almost everything storage-wise is exposed! Anyway, the ZimaBoard 2 did not break a sweat with Plex streaming or disk benchmarks. ZimaOS Factory Reset ZimaOS does not include a factory reset option. Instead, you have to download the ZimaOS image and flash it to the eMMC manually. The flashing process is shown in the above gallery. The steps to do so are listed below: Download the ZimaOS image here; Open BalenaEtcher (Run as Administrator) and select the image; Select your inserted USB drive (min 8 GB) Flash to it; Connect your USB drive, monitor, keyboard, USB hub (optional), mouse (optional), and network cable (recommended) to the ZimaBoard 2; Connect power and press F11 continuously; Select your USB drive starting with UEFI in the boot device menu; Press Enter on the Install ZimaOS option; Select /dev/mmcblk0 (MMC) flash drive as target; Confirm with (three times) to wipe the target disk; Wait a couple of minutes while ZimaOS installs; Remove the USB drive and confirm with a reboot; Your ZimaBoard 2 has been factory reset. However, you don't have to stick with ZimaOS, in fact the company also offers official CasaOS images, that are based on Debian; or as they say themselves, put anything you want on this "hackable single board server" it's up to you. Conclusion I had a lot of fun putting this together. I've custom-built all my own PCs and servers since the 90s, and this is the first time I have had to put a NAS together. Even if the actual base ZimaBoard 2 was already a completed build, it still feels pretty custom. I just wish that IceWhale Technology included a getting-started guide in the box for the Start Kit, which would have really completed this kit. Instead, I had to search for the official video on the YouTube channel to make sure I wasn't doing anything wrong. So who is this for? Definitely the hobbyist who is comfortable building their own PC and servers. It also has a much smaller footprint than its nearest equivalent (in terms of specs), like the Beelink Me Pro, which is another NAS I will be testing soon. Although the Beelink does not come with the PCIe 3.0 X4 expansion, the ZimaBoard 2 Starter Kit suddenly looks to be a great bargain, even if it only offers the two 3.5-inch bays over the four in the other example. It makes a lot of sense to use Intel's N150 chip inside a NAS; it is more than capable of doing what the ZimaBoard 2 is intended for, media streaming and backup. It also looks like the IceWhale Technology staff are quite active in the official forums helping people with issues they come across with ZimaOS and the devices, peer support seems to be good as well, I was quickly able to find why I was not able to create a new Storage Pool in ZimaOS v1.6.1 even though that is quite a serious bug, hopefully it will be fixed in the next update. If you are comfortable with the command line and Docker, you'll be fine. You can do great things with this hardware. This was my first time with ZimaOS. It seems a bit barebones in comparison to the likes of Synology DSM, TOS, and UGOS, but it has a ton of apps to get you started with your home or small business NAS. Where to buy As of publishing, IceWhale Technology is running a discount of up to 5% for the Starter Kit. If you opt to get just the ZimaBoard 2 itself, it does come with a SATA Y-Cable, so you will be able to connect up to two 3.5-inch HDDs to it. ZimaBoard 2 1668 Starter Kit for $534.50 on Amazon US (was $548.60) ZimaBoard 2 832 Starter Kit for $372.88 on Amazon US (was $390.60) Zimaboard 2 1668 (16GB+64GB) for $419.90 on Amazon US Zimaboard 2 832 (8GB+32GB) for $359.90 on Amazon Disclosure: IceWhale Technology provided a free sample without any editorial input or review pre-approval. Good to know The Amazon link is U.S. specific, and not available in other regions unless specified. We only use first-party seller links (at the time of article publishing); ensure that you purchase from a first-party seller link only. Check out Today's Deals on Amazon | or our recent tech deals. 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    • It's in the Insider's group so yes it's technically beta, though these days it's hard to see much of a difference unless you opt for the most extreme beta builds, which I don't. When I moved here from the Release Preview channel I did so primarily because I wanted to see how well the restored taskbar functionality (restored from Win10, and earlier) is working and whether it was time to finally abandon SAB--and it is--working fine, so far. Not as polished as SAB, but it'll do for me.
    • I've been using MWB Premium for a number of years so that along with Windows updates and updated browser should be fine. Thanks for that.
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