I have a couple of no-brand SATA-USB enclosers with some jmicron chipset. Can’t remember the exact chipset right now, as my RPi is not working ATM (see edit).
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theorangeninja@lemmy.today 4 months agoAre you using SATA to USB adapters? If yes, which one work well?
Engywuck@lemm.ee 4 months ago
paf@jlai.lu 4 months ago
I’m not 100% sure but this might also depend which OS you are running on your pi. Did change from SD card to SSD few years back for my home assistant setup (now running with a mini pc) at the time I went for a geekpi adapter (can’t recall exact model).
Try a quick ducduck search “sata adapter #yourOS#” and see if a list come up. Here is one for HA (but surely more models are compatible than the ones listed here) community.home-assistant.io/t/…/212763
thayer@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
You can go with something like this if you want a clean solution.
I use a drive dock station for my backup drives, and I have a few of these for one-offs too.
theorangeninja@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Thank you, I think I will go with this and a SSD from crucial to start off and then add some HDDs for backup and NAS. Do you think this kind of enclosure is reliable enough for a NAS? And is there enough airflow if you add two 3.5" HDDs together in the dock station?
Engywuck@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Yeah, I use something like this, a no-brand enclosure.