GamesMissed , vor einem Monat

@foone Absolutely possible. I have a couple of the discontinued WD Labs PiDrives here, they work well, albeit slowly:

https://magpi.raspberrypi.com/articles/western-digital-pidrive

jpm , vor einem Monat

@foone easy, Pi4 can boot from USB storage. I know this because I destroyed the MicroSD socket on one of my Pi4’s…

mattgrayyes , vor einem Monat

@foone those diddy iPod drives are a perfect size for them too!

fsphil , vor einem Monat

@foone I used a spinny disk a few times on a Pi Zero to compile some large programs. Worked well but felt so wrong.

rotopenguin , vor einem Monat

@foone how hard could it be to hook up an Rpi to IDE? It has more than enough pins.

tehstu , vor einem Monat

@foone Should do. I've been running my 4, and later 5, off an SSD in a USB enclosure. Although the latter just graduated to NVMe.

Ought to be faster than an SD card? Although this is where you, specifically, bust out a Winchester drive or something bonkers!

dannotdaniel , vor einem Monat

@foone and we were singing

bye bye this raspberry pi
drove my 3B to the boot screen
on a spinning rust drive

sorry

yakkoj , vor einem Monat

@foone it worked for me when I added the firmware to make RasPi 3 boot USB. Booted off WD's 3.14GB drive fine!

fozztexx , vor einem Monat

@foone 50 pin, 34 pin, or 40 pin?

foone OP , vor einem Monat

@fozztexx hard mode: mfm

fozztexx , vor einem Monat

@foone Is that harder than 50 pin Shugart?

acsawdey , vor einem Monat

@foone @fozztexx How about a CDC 3764:

SMD interface
150 mb
14” platters
Belt drive
Building lights dim when it spins up

darkling , vor einem Monat

@foone Let me count the ways...

(actually, seems like a relatively easy target on the face of it. Are you going soft?)

mori , vor einem Monat

@foone Booting a rPi from one of the velociraptor drives I have kicking around would be hilarious... I kinda want to try this now too.

puppygirlhornypost , vor einem Monat

@mori @foone WD Raptors were insane. my god the RPM I remember once plugging one in with power on my desk and it moved around like insert vibrating apparatus here

foone OP , vor einem Monat

@puppygirlhornypost @mori I wonder if vibrating a hard drive lowers the read speed?

I need to hook up a Hitachi to an old... I was gonna say something like "an old wd caviar" but I just remembered that Hitachi made hard drives too.

So now I need to try using a Hitachi on a Hitachi

9names , vor einem Monat

@foone @puppygirlhornypost @mori Have you ever watched "shouting in the datacenter"? Hitachi on Hitachi is going to be next-level though

foone OP , vor einem Monat

@9names @puppygirlhornypost @mori yeah! I used to work for an SSD company, our CTO had a link to that video in his email signature