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?
You could’ve just got a board with USB 3 and Gigabit ethernet for that price. https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=279
Or this… https://radxa.com/products/rocke/pie/ or… https://radxa.com/products/zeros/zero3e/
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.
Well, the OPi Zero 3 only has USB 2, which is slow.
You could attach something like this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/403740942791?hash=item5e00d5e1c7:g:I1AAAOSwQgJits1E
Don’t expect it to be fast.
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 |
4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.
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What a weird choice for a storage-oriented device, I would have gone for a SBC with SATA ports or a PCIe port.
It wasn’t exactly a well-thought choice 😂 I wanted to host my services locally so I had to choose between going for an old computer/NUC or a Raspberry Pi and chose the latter because it’s not that power hungry. But then Raspberries are very hard to come by and even with the launch of RP5, they still look like very overpriced. So looking for alternatives, I came by the OrangePi, which sounded like a fair option 😅
