On 14/11/21 12:52 am, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 12:35 AM William Kenworthy <bi...@iinet.net.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
