Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Even tho the USB on my phone is slow, my puter USB isn't the fastest out >> there either, it is pretty darn fast. > Sure, but it would be just as fast with a $30 USB thumb drive as with > an M.2 drive plus enclosure and all that. > >> Also, very large storage space >> compared to USB sticks. The biggest USB stick I've ever bought, 128GB. >> I haven't used it yet. It just sits on my desk. > You can get 1TB USB drives. They're probably comparable in > performance to what you're putting together. > >> I >> could build a Raspberry Pi for a NAS box, a media center hooked to my TV >> or some other things. Like a torrent box maybe. > USB3 drives work fine on a Pi. Just make sure it is a newer Pi that > actually has USB3 and not an old one which is v2 only. Also, I think > those Pis only have one USB host, so for hard drives that probably > isn't much of an issue but if you're going to use it for more than one > SSD drive it will start to limit the bandwidth across all of them. >
Given that I would likely have 3, 4 or maybe 5 drives using LVM, I'd want as fast as I can get. At least fast enough that the drives themselves is the limited part. >> I've went from >> wouldn't trust USB to trusting it a lot more. That has some value. > Sure, but you don't need to buy an M.2 drive for that. > > All that said, looking at prices, you aren't paying THAT much of a > premium for the M.2 enclosure. So maybe it isn't a terrible idea if > you don't mind the larger form factor, and can avoid breaking it (I'm > guessing the M.2 enclosure is more fragile than a typical thumb > drive). > > I'm actually buying NVMe more for my storage simply because NVMe flash > isn't much more expensive than SATA flash anyway, so might as well get > the IOPS. I'm still running it over PCIe though. > Yea, plus I think this might be more dependable as well. As was mentioned in the other thread, USB sticks aren't as good as they used to be, some of them anyway. It's one reason I stick with genuine Sandisk or some other brand mentioned on this list as a known good brand, every time. One of these days, I may be able to set up SSDs for all my videos. I suspect that at some point, spinning rust may go away. Right now, for bulk storage spinning rust is still the more economical path. That could change tho. I have to say tho, at least the quality of hard drives hasn't dropped, yet. The respectable brands are pretty good still. They still improving the tech as much as they can too. I'm pretty sure you mentioned this once before in one of my older threads. I can't find it tho. I use PCIe x1 cards to connect my SATA drives for my video collection and such. You mentioned once what the bandwidth was for that setup and how many drives it would take to pretty much max it out. Right now, I have one card for two sets of LVs. One LV has four drives and the other has three. What would be the limiting factor on that, the drives, the PCIe bus or something else? I'm thinking about adding a card and hooking the drives for one LV to one card and the other LV to a second card, if I would benefit from it in some way. I'd just a refresh on just what limits what. I been trying to find the post you made on this but I couldn't find it anywhere. This time, I'm going to copy the info and put it in my hard drive info directory. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
