“I wanted a PI4 to connect to a 5 bay USB3 drive caddy. The PI brings up /boot from an SD card, and root from an SSD in the caddy. It's running Ubuntu Server 22.04 btw. The other 3 HDD's spin up, and are formatted to ZFS, with another 8TB running as a hot swap spare, and the log and cache on the SDD. It's also running as my PLEX server where we keep family videos and music rips of a bunch of old CD's.
Pimoroni were my first stop, as they have delivered excellent customer service before, and again, 2 days after ordering this new PI4 (to replace a Ryzen PC doing the same job, but in a lot higher power envelope) it was on my doorstep, perfectly packed and ready to run once I hooked it all up. No faults whatsoever, as I've come to expect from dealing with Pimoroni.
Now, I am just waiting for PI CM4 8GB to come back online so I can populate my Waveshare CM4 Dual Eth baseboard and replace my rubbish ISP FTPP modem with something I have more control over!
The CM4 will be ordered from Pimoroni as I trust them 100% to deliver the goods.”
