Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for NAS appliance?

[William Kenworthy]

On 14/11/21 12:52 am, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 12:35 AM William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> wrote:
>> Look at the odroid HC4 - I am using 5x the older HC2 version for moosefs
>> - they are USB3 based but work well in this application.  They are arm32
>> but 64bit is not needed.
> I like the idea behind the HC series Odroids, but being limited to 1-2
> drives per node seems a bit contraining.  With the USB3 approach there
> really is no limit to how many drives I can put on a node, as long as
> I don't mind the performance drop.  I'm more concerned with static
> storage capacity in this case.  If you're using 1Gbps ethernet then I
> guess two drives is already going to saturate the network if they're
> able to read sequentially.
>
The HC2 works fine with a USB3 disk added to an existing sata drive (I
was doing that for awhile using SATA->USB3 adaptors) - however it looks
like the HC4 has dropped USB3 and only USB2 is available - backward step
in my view.

BillK