Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing

On 1/20/25 5:10 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 20/01/2025 09:30, D wrote:

  The Pi hat or OMV ?

 The pi, with directly connected spinning disks. Does the hat have its own extra power supply?

 I've managed to get a P4 I think to run one spinning rust disk without extra power.
Strictly it depends on the disk.
The pi hat for 5 drives has an external 60W PSU

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 Used to run an external USB magnetic from
 a Pi4 ... worked just fine. TWO of them,
 well, not so sure.
>
 The 5-drive hat ... Philosopher says it needs
 at least a 12v/5a supply, esp if you're gonna
 run all magnetics. I have a couple of those
 around, may have to splice on the right plug ...