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| author | Kumar Damani <me@kumardamani.net> | 2023-01-04 20:16:51 +0000 |
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| committer | Kumar Damani <me@kumardamani.net> | 2023-01-04 20:16:51 +0000 |
| commit | 54087a98772dfc6f0af2a3f6725cc943a75747e4 (patch) | |
| tree | 25c8e231fe68d9fe7e94fee26945715542b4d8b6 | |
| parent | 40c0d09945fdf21601b5b62af9d16b0c254a92b6 (diff) | |
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@@ -60,17 +60,20 @@ There are many reasons why this board is awesome: 3. PCIe slot!! My main reason for switching to this board is the final point above :) - Speaking of the PCIe slot, we can get a PCIe SATA adapter to connect to two SATA drives. +  To power the drives, Pine64 all sells power cables: +  The drives themselves are 4 TiB 3.5in 5400 RPM CMR such as: +  > 7200 RPM drives are more expensive and I won't be pushing this hard enough to notice the benefits. + > Note there will be cheaper drives using SMR, but I'd recommend CMR is worth the extra cost. Remember to buy drives that are not made as part of the same batch, so that the probabity of them @@ -79,10 +82,13 @@ dying together is the lowest. You can also do this by buying different brands. Also remember to buy an extra set so that you save yourself some panic during recovery. When using the dual SATA adapter, Pine64 recommends a beefier 12V, 3A power-supply: +  Since this is basically a NAS build, I opted to house all of this in: +  + Which comes included with a fan, and the SATA power-cables. Optional, but recommended: an external usb SSD or HDD as a backup drive. |