Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing

On Mon, 20 Jan 2025, 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?

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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

Ahh, if it has an external PSU then there is no problem. Ideally, if the pi hat for 5 drives is intended to accomodate 5 spinning drives, it would be nice if it did so at full speeds.
Given that the server manufacturers seem to no longer want to produce smaller, cheaper nodes, but only want to sell huge GPU machines, I'm contemplating if it actually might not be possible to build a nice archive solution on pi:s, spinning disks and a few cards at a good price.
To be continued... as the saying goes.