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I doubt SATA is that expensive, and honestly they could alternatively throw in PCIe instead of SATA if that's less expensive, and it would also be way more gene

I doubt SATA is that expensive, and honestly they could alternatively throw in PCIe instead of SATA if that's less expensive, and it would also be way more general. I'm considering getting a Rock64Pro because it's reasonably well supported and has a PCIe port, which means I can buy a SATA add-on board. I wish Raspberry Pi had better support for fast storage.

sorenjan 7y ago
Remember that the new Pi 4B has USB3, and according to the benchmark posted on their site it can read from an SSD over USB at 363 MB/s, and write at 323 MB/s. That's pretty good, I don't think you'll get much better than that with a SATA chip connected to the same SoC, so a regular external hard drive with USB3 is probably the best option for most Raspberry Pi customers. The Rock64Pro is probably a great board too, and it also has USB3, so it can do both options. There's some Odroid boards that have built in SATA as well. https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/articles/raspberry-pi-4-specs-benchmarks https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/articles/raspberry-pi-4-specs-...