I searched for a topic on this and did not find one.
I was just curious when more Penta SATA HAT devices for Raspberry Pi 5 will be made and available. Everywhere I looked it is out of stock. Looks like a great hat, and hopefully an answer to my goal of creating several RPI5 NAS nodes on my network.
THANKS! Have a great weekend!!
If it helps…
I have a Rock 5C board, working with a Penta SATA Hat for 3C that I’ve bought by mistake. I was actually tricked by the confusing listings on AliExpress.
Checked a few docs and pictures and the hat seemed to be the same board, just different connections so I bought the FPC cable from Arace tech and it did the trick.
Initial tests working fine. I tested a couple of drives on it with no issues. I can post a picture if you wanna see it.
I’m deciding on which drives to get for my final setup now.
Sorry for the very late reply, but I finally found one of these in the RPI flavor and it is AWESOME! I will post some pics when I get my case (v2) finished. My final case (v3) will be printed, but for now I am using an aluminum framework.
I am powering it with a 8a 12vdc brick power supply and have 5 SSD’s installed. It works flawlessly with OpenMediaVault. Something happened to my RPI5 install when I upgraded the other day and the RPI5 would not boot. I didn’t have a backup, most likely because I was so excited I just skipped that very important step. lol. So now I am rebuilding the OS and all my SMB shares, but it does work as expected. I’m going after two more of these to finish my 3-NAS home network setup.
All I need today though is to figure out the 10 pin PHD2.0 connector so I can throw in either an OLED or slow (i2c) TFT display and speed control my new Noctua 40mm fan. I’ll add a dust filter, a soft power shutdown / power on module, a few capacitance buttons, and maybe some internal RGB lights. Why? Why not? It’s super cool and I want to show it off.
Thanks MDFCK for the reply!