Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing

On 1/20/25 3:53 PM, D wrote:

  On Mon, 20 Jan 2025, 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

 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.

   One review said the WRITEs were a little pokey,
   but not TOO bad. READs were apparently snappy.
   This is OK ... most stuff on HDDs is "write once /
   read more often".

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.

   Yep ... lemme get in and fool with my 5-drive unit
   a bit and I'll write a hands-on report. The price
   is good enough (the DRIVES are $$$ alas)
   Even without the SATA hat ... you CAN run a number
   of external USB 3.x drives from a Pi. Won't be as
   quick, but it works OK.
   And yea, I know what you mean about everybody trending
   towards "overkill" boxes/systems. Better $ margin I guess.
   Still no shortage of motherboards - so you can build
   your own "appropriate" boxes.
   For an NAS, it's the drive speeds that are kinda the
   limiting factor, so even a 'slow' motherboard won't
   hurt anything. It's all I/O-bound.
   The popular Sinology canned NAS units - 4/6/8/12 drive
   units with multiple network plugs - all use basically
   laptop-grade 'Celeron' grade processors.