Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing

  On Sun, 19 Jan 2025, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
 

On 19/01/2025 10:47, D wrote:

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On Sat, 18 Jan 2025, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
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On 1/18/25 5:39 AM, D wrote:

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

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

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 You can buy a 5-drive Pi5 hat and plug in laptop
 drives or, preferably, SATA SSDs. Buy on Amazon.
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 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.
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https://www.raspberrypibox.com/how-to-install-open-media-vault-on-raspberry-pi-5/

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How many spinning drives do you think it can handle?

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It has a 12v 5A supply. You work it out.

 Not many in itself, so power would have to come from somewhere else.