pa...@quillandmouse.com [2022-10-16 14:22:16] wrote:
> Pi's don't have SATA.
Depends on the flavor. Banana Pi and Orange Pi mini definitely do.
[ But not a very good one, admittedly. And their power infrastructure
tends to be overwhelmed when you connect a spinning rust drive (I've
had to try various power adapters and power cables before the setup
was reliable enough). ]
> They can run SATA over USB. However, with 9 TB of storage of media
> files, I'm afraid this would throttle my access to storage.
It depends on many factors, most importantly how you communicate with
that Pi box: in many cases the link between you and the Pi box will be
the main bottleneck rather than the link between the Pi box and
the drive.
Stefan
