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?

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year 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.eeOPEnglish
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      1 year 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?