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  • Got In My Pi5 SATA Hat - Testing Proceeds Tomorrow

    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 13 04:22:27 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.misc

    My Pi5 SATA hat came in - and I have two 2.5" drives,
    so far - an SSD and a WD Black magnetic.

    It's CALLED a "Penta-Hat" but only has 4 plugs actually
    on the board - plus an E-SATA plug, which makes five.

    There are some stand-off headers and some plastic things
    that kinda hold/stabilize the drives. The thing is a
    bit top-heavy, so I may need to attach some kind of
    more stable base/box.

    I *think* it also works with a Rock-5 ... and a second
    PCIe cable is provided.

    The 12v/5A power supply is actually just for if you want
    to use the e-SATA. I've GOT one. There's a chart on the
    (not included) manual showing how many watts SSDs and
    magnetics use. For all SSDs the 27w standard P5 power
    supply OUGHT to do. The e-SATA cable IS provided.

    There's a ribbon cable for connecting the PCIE port
    on the P5 to the board. Also plugs into the main
    hat connector, maybe more for power than anything else.

    The CanaKit heat sink required three little tabs to be
    clipped short so the 12v connector would fit down right.

    Put the latest OpenMediaVault distro on a card, they
    claim it will boot on a P5. OMV has become a pretty
    good little NAS system, I've used it professionally.
    Yep, as confusing to set up, esp permissions, as
    other NAS systems.

    Tomorrow - ok today since it's so damned late - I'll
    boot the card and hopefully get it going. There are
    some Linux utilities that can give me some idea
    about throughput.

    Immediate, easy, goal ... use the SSD as the main
    drive and just write a dinky script using rsync
    to update the magnetic a few times a day. Not
    elegant/sophisticated but it'll work and provide
    redundant storage. Some might want RAID, but
    there are plusses and minuses in RAID setups.

    Will add a couple more SSDs later once I pay
    down my credit card.

    This I will plug into my hub directly, but since
    all but one the devices I'll be saving FROM are
    all wireless there's not gonna be huge speed
    savings there.

    Anyway, fairly cheap on Amazon.

    Oh, what IS it with PI hats ... the plugs never
    accomodate a 2rd hat. Arduino stuff can be a bit
    better in this respect.

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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Feb 13 21:18:50 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.misc

    On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 04:22:27 -0500, [email protected] wrote:

    Oh, what IS it with PI hats ... the plugs never accomodate a 2rd hat.
    Arduino stuff can be a bit better in this respect.

    I wondered about that. So far I don't have any hats, just the GPIO
    extension board. It's nice to have things labeled. I got a couple more
    Pico Ws yesterday and soldered female headers on one so I can read the
    labels on the bottom of the board. That is one nice thing about the Unos.

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to rbowman on Fri Feb 14 01:28:15 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 2/13/25 4:18 PM, rbowman wrote:
    On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 04:22:27 -0500, [email protected] wrote:

    Oh, what IS it with PI hats ... the plugs never accomodate a 2rd hat.
    Arduino stuff can be a bit better in this respect.

    I wondered about that. So far I don't have any hats, just the GPIO
    extension board. It's nice to have things labeled. I got a couple more
    Pico Ws yesterday and soldered female headers on one so I can read the
    labels on the bottom of the board. That is one nice thing about the Unos.


    Note that my "penta-hat" is NOT going well. There's
    almost NO docs. Found a service, kinda HIDDEN on
    GitHub, but it didn't help.

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