Submitted 11 months ago by opulentocean@lemm.ee to selfhosted@lemmy.world
Hi everyone! I recently moved my services from a Hetzner VPS to an OrangePi Zero 3 and I was wondering what options do I have storage-wise? How could I plug the most HDDs possible on this thing? Does anyone have a successful setup that might want to share?
Well, the OPi Zero 3 only has USB 2, which is slow.
You could attach something like this: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/403740942791?hash=item5e00d5e1…
Don’t expect it to be fast.
Looks interesting, thanks!
You could’ve just got a board with USB 3 and Gigabit ethernet for that price. www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/prod…
I never heard of any of those SBCs. Pretty interesting, thanks for the tip!
About the NanoPi Neo3
This little thing gets pretty hot with the official case. I had to cut a hole in it to hot glue a tiny fan, powered by the GPIO.
I can’t remember the temp. difference right now (it’s unplugged) but it was significant.
Oh yes, but I never tweaked it and I haven’t had issues with it.
Why the most hdds?
Get a relatively new, with USB 2.0 and you’ll be fine. Powered it its a 3.5"
No reason, really. Just had in my mind that this was the way to get the most storage, but then someone mentioned about a single HDD with 20TB of capacity and idk, this haven’t even crossed my mind. Might need to update myself on current HDDs 😅 Thanks for the tip!
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| NUC | Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers |
| PCIe | Peripheral Component Interconnect Express |
| SATA | Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage |
| SBC | Single-Board Computer |
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cron@feddit.de 11 months ago
You bought a device with just one single USB 2.0 port and ask for the ideal storage option?
I could be wrong, but you’re probably limited to one external HDD (~20 TB) and one micro SD card (1 TB).
opulentocean@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Kinda… Nothing will be ideal in this setup, so I just want to know how to make the best with what I have. Thanks for the suggestion!
cron@feddit.de 11 months ago
The best depends in what you need… What are your requirements in terms of capacity, speed and redundancy?
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 11 months ago
My concerns with using external storage on a Pi is backup.
Drives fail, externals even more so.
I suppose you could add a powered USB hub. But you’d really want a backup/replication plan to something like Backblaze B2, etc.
opulentocean@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Quick question about the hubs. I saw some with 5+ ports. Using USB 2.0 I know I’ll have some limitations on speed, but could I for instance, plug 5 HDDs and this speed would be evenly divided among then (given a moment where they all would get written at the same time)? If only 1 HDD is being written, would it get this full speed? Is this math that simple or are there more things that I’m not considering?
opulentocean@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Thanks! I’ll see what options of powered USB hubs I got
tal@lemmy.today 11 months ago
I mean, you can put a powered USB hub on that and get more ports if you want them.
Or get a USB drive enclosure that can take multiple drives.