Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM

Re:Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM by tra3 on Monday October 19, 2020 @05:22PM (#24831177)

Forgive me if this is a stupid question; but I see that it has SATA support. Does that mean this can be shoehorned into NAS service?

I have an irrational desire to create a cluster, but I would like to use it for something practical like a NAS. Bad idea?

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Re:Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM by InvaderFizz on Monday October 19, 2020 @07:34PM (#24832285)

Yes, but I would opt for the newly released HC4 if two drives were fine. If you are looking for four to five drives, I'm sure someone will make a PCB at some point that uses A PCIe connected SATA controller.

Price becomes a real problem though. The Pi foundation carrier board is dirt cheap, everyone else's boards seem to be a lot of money. Probably due to low volume.

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Re:Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM by tra3 on Monday October 19, 2020 @07:36PM (#24832301)

Yeah that's what I kinda figured. It's interesting but doesn't make sense from a financial standpoint.

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Re:Show HN: Turing Pi 2 – a compact ARM cluster with 32 GB RAM by nsky-world on Monday October 19, 2020 @05:25PM (#24831204)

You can. Why not?

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