Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing

On Sun, 19 Jan 2025, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

On 1/19/25 5:47 AM, D wrote:

  On Sat, 18 Jan 2025, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

On 1/18/25 5:39 AM, D wrote:

  On Fri, 17 Jan 2025, rbowman wrote:
 

On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 10:32:07 +0100, D wrote:
 

I wonder if it would be possible to build a PB storage system for
archive use cases on a bunch of Pi 5? =) Does it have any good ways to
connect disks, or is it still only USB? I wonder how many disks per
system it could handle with confidence?

 https://smist08.wordpress.com/2024/05/24/raspberry-pi-5-with-ssd/
 The Pi 5 has a PCIe port and there are Raspberry and third party NMVe
solutions.
 

 Interesting! Thank you for the link. This could be a fun hobby project. I wonder if it would be possible, over time, to get it to such a state that someone might actually consider using it in production environments? With sounds and strong redundancy, maybe!

    You can buy a 5-drive Pi5 hat and plug in laptop
 drives or, preferably, SATA SSDs. Buy on Amazon.
  Apparently the not-so-bad OpenMediaVault distro
 now WILL boot on a Pi5. I've used it professionally
 and its really pretty good at this point - and gives
 you lots of fine control. It's also LIGHT, which is
 great for a Pi NAS.
  https://www.raspberrypibox.com/how-to-install-open-media-vault-on-raspberry-pi-5/

 How many spinning drives do you think it can handle?

>
 The Pi hat or OMV ?

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

 The hat has 5 slots, so I guess 5. Not sure if
 an extra-strong PS is needed, esp for mag drives.
>
 OMV ... I used it as a mirror/backup server and it
 had 8 mag drives. Tweak two settings and it'd
 look/feel exactly like the primary server so far
 as the office clients were concerned.