guacamole [none/use name]

just another online dumbass

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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • Throughput wise? Likely not. USB is going to be the choke point probably so there shouldn’t be a discernible difference. There may be a price difference in the two, since most of the USB drives I’ve had my hands on tend to be SATA drives with the adapter built into the enclosure. I think you might pay a bit more for the prebuilt drive/enclosure versus DIYing it but I haven’t bought drives or adapters in a few years so I couldn’t tell wrt current pricing.


  • I have multiple SBCs of various origin. I use a USB/SATA adapter and run SSDs over USB. I use adapters that draw power over USB and some that also draw power from their own dedicated wall wart.

    My bananapi and the rasp pi’s have no issue powering the SSD over USB, given a wallwart with ample current overhead (5v 4a supplies seem to work great). The orangepi, is a different story. All sorts of issues unless I’m using a USB/SSD adapter with its own power source.





  • When CTH got 86’d I quit using Reddit for anything other than a source of up-to-date technical info on stuff like 3d printers, automotive problems, plumbing questions and the like. Despite my dislike of Reddit and Redditors in general it really was a place to get good info from. Something happened slowly over the last year or so- good technical info has become hard to find. Maybe an algorithm got updated, something like that. But now, the technical info I look for is buried under miles of cat posts, people posting about whether or not they are attractive, and the like. Reddit has ALWAYS sucked, but the ability to find good info from time to time outweighed my severe dislike of everything else.

    Not anymore. It’s just full time trash now.