I have an external 1.5TB USB HDD on this Odroid N2+. It is always somewhat busy since I have a torrent client running as a daemon. I noticed recently that the HDD gets super hot.

Is there some other stoage medium I can use to prevent this? I know nerds like to use NAS or something like that but it seems super expensive and overkill as I don’t really need that much space since I am not a compulsive hoarder.

The SBC does not have anything like SATA ports or whatever they are called so my only two options are eMMC and something that works over USB. eMMCs are hard to come by where I live. So I am thinking something like a USB SSD could work here? Thoughts?

Thank you.

  • guacamole [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Odroid N2+ can power an external HDD on its own. Any idea if there is a significant difference between using an “external USB SSD” vs. using a normal SATA SSD with an USB enclosure/adapter?

      • guacamole [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        1 year ago

        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.