Buy a FreedomBox

Libre Crafts FreedomBox

Libre Crafts in an endeavor from the FreedomBox developers themselves to bring you a powerful FreedomBox device capable of hosting even the most demanding home server needs. The device is crafted, tested, and delivered to you by FreedomBox developers. Your purchase helps FreedomBox development.

This hardware features a powerful CPU, plenty of main memory, a fast OS disk, ability to add two high capacity hard disk drives, dual multi-gigabit Ethernet ports, all with a low power consumption. Use it to host all your photos, to backup all home devices, as a NAS, as home automation hub, as a desktop computer, and more all at once.

• CPU: Intel® N150 CPU (Alder Lake-N) or AMD Ryzen™ 7 5825U
• RAM: 16 GiB
• Storage: 512GB NVMe SSD M.2 2280 pre-loaded with FreedomBox
• NAS: 2 empty hard disk slots for software RAID (base version), 2 × 2TB drives (2TB version), 2 × 8TB (8TB version)
• USB: 2 × USB 3.2 Gen 2, 2 × USB 2.0 Type A
• Ethernet: 2 × 2.5G LAN ports
• Display: 3 × 4K displays (HDMI 2.1 port, DisplayPort 1.4, Type C)
• GPU: Intel® UHD Graphics or AMD Radeon™ Graphics
• Power adapter: DC power input, 19V, 5.12A
• Power consumption: 10 - 21 Watts (Intel version), 7.5 - 30 Watts (AMD version)

Pioneer FreedomBox Home Server Kits

Pioneer FreedomBox Home Servers are produced and sold by Olimex, a company which specializes in Open Source Hardware. The kit includes pocket-sized server hardware, an SD card with the operating system pre-installed, and a backup battery which can power the hardware for 4-5 hours in case of outages. It sells for €82.

The word "Pioneer" was included in the name of these kits in order to emphasize the leadership required to run a FreedomBox in 2019. Users will be pioneers both because they have the initiative to define this new frontier and because their feedback will make FreedomBox better for its next generation of users.

Each Pioneer FreedomBox Home Server Kit includes these items:

• The Computer: LIME2 single-board computer by Olimex. It features the following specifications:
  • Dual Core ARM Cortex-A7 processor running at 1GHz
  • 1GB RAM
  • two USB 2.0 ports
  • one USB-OTG port
  • native Gigabit Ethernet
  • native SATA drive support
  • HDMI port (not usable with the FreedomBox software, since FreedomBox is only accessible through a web-based interface)
• The Storage: 32GB micro SD-card with the FreedomBox software pre-installed. The SD card is speed class 10, with read speeds of 20MB/s and write speeds of 17MB/s.
• The Battery: a lithium polymer battery sits within the case, which can power your FreedomBox whenever you lose electricity. The battery can power your FreedomBox for up to 4-5 hours of stand alone operation.
• The Cables: an ethernet cable (one meter) and a power supply.

Try Before You Buy

Not sure if you want to buy a FreedomBox? We created a free demo of our software for anyone who is on the fence. Just play with our demo and you'll see what our software can do.

Technical Support

Once you buy FreedomBox hardware, the FreedomBox community will give you free technical support for the software. We created a special category in our forum for owners of the FreedomBox hardware. Hardware owners can post new questions or browse this category for previously asked questions.

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