I got a Turris Omnia Router, which I want to use as a NAS.

I also really like SATA SSDs, they are abundant (I have too many), never overheat (take that, NVME crap) etc.

The router is pretty tight, a SATA SSD fits in, but I need a cable to have the adapter 90° and a bit upwards.

Now I wonder, what adapter do I need? On AliExpress I find one with 1 or 2 SATA connections, 1 is probably best for sanity and reliability.

This one looks more sketchy, as it has 2 SATA sockets.

  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Thanks a lot! The Omnia has a ton of pins inside, I will check if some can provide power.

    It has a small amount of RAM, so running a web server, NAS or torrent server would be possible. That would be great with like a 4TB SATA SSD.

    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Oh yeah, that’d be a great file server. Even low power CPU’s can typically serve data about as fast as a SATA-III drive can provide it.

      • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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        4 months ago

        And tbh, the CPU is 32bit which sucks I guess, I am also not sure about security disadvantages. The GrapheneOS people know way more here. Also nothing about how well Marvell really patches these old CPUs.

        But SATA SSDs just beat NVMEs. I hate NVMEs. Never needed that speed, they just overheat all the time and require too much passive cooling, I destroyed an NVME because the cooling pad and the laptop bottom bent it.

        I was able to cancel a miniPCIe-SATA adapter buy on Aliexpress and got an electrical mSATA-SATA adapter instead, way simpler and probably faster.

        Just need to find out if power is needed and from where to get it.

        https://www.turris.com/en/products/omnia/specification/