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 bought a device with just one single USB 2.0 port and ask for the ideal storage option?
I could be wrong, but you’re probably limited to one external HDD (~20 TB) and one micro SD card (1 TB).
Kinda… Nothing will be ideal in this setup, so I just want to know how to make the best with what I have. Thanks for the suggestion!
The best depends in what you need… What are your requirements in terms of capacity, speed and redundancy?
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.
Thanks! I’ll see what options of powered USB hubs I got
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?
I mean, you can put a powered USB hub on that and get more ports if you want them.
Or get a USB drive enclosure that can take multiple drives.