On Sun, 16 Oct 2022 23:04:03 +0500 Stanislav Vlasov <stanislav....@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2022-10-16 21:58 GMT+05:00, Andrew M.A. Cater <amaca...@einval.com>: > >> > What about just putting some drives in a desktop, and installing > >> > some free > >> > nas software like > >> > https://linuxhint.com/best-nas-software-linux > >> > >> OpenMediaVault work fine even on Orange Pi 3 LTS with usb drives. > > > > USB connected drives work fine - until they don't ... I learned > > that the hard way 15 years ago [LVM done that way and you'd lose a > > drive ...]. > > I know. Mitigate it by installing all to wooden board and don't use > LVM on external drives. > Orange Pi 3 LTS does not have another interfaces for really big > non-network drives, only one usb3.0 (up to 100-110MB/s on my hdd > drives, does not test on ssd) and two usb2.0 (up to 30MB/s) > It's also worth noting: on my setup with a spinning rust laptop drive hooked via USB 3 to my RPi, the drive doesn't spin continuously (apparently). So on occasional use, I wait a couple of seconds for the drive to spin up before it can transfer at full speed. It's possible an SSD would solve this, but I had the laptop drive around already. Paul -- Paul M. Foster Personal Blog: http://noferblatz.com Company Site: http://quillandmouse.com Software Projects: https://gitlab.com/paulmfoster
