Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing

On 1/20/25 3:58 PM, D wrote:

  On Mon, 20 Jan 2025, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

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

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

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 The Pi hat or OMV ?

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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

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 Used to run an external USB magnetic from
 a Pi4 ... worked just fine. TWO of them,
 well, not so sure.
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 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 ...

 This is promising!

   Gotta whip together SOME kind of holding frame.
   The Pi, hat and drives just kinda stick up there
   by gravity as-is. May still have some sheets
   of ABS plastic ... a little epoxy .....