@ct_Magazin Problem vorallem.wenn Mensch nicht nur #SATA sondern auch #SAS-Platten ansprechen muss (von #SCSI und #IDE will ich garnicht erst anfangen, weil die sollten längst ersetzt worden sein)…

@rasteri @TechTangents

The unelegant version would be to design a sorta "IDE Splitter" board to plonk in two of those single-port #IDE -> #SATA adaptors in and just set one to "Master" and the other to "Slave"...

Or just see if one can design a custom board instead with two SATA ports assigned to fixed M/S channels.

• Basically making it easy to plonk onto a #PC104 - style board and not have to deal with W I D E IDE cables...

@rasteri @TechTangents speaking of #storage: A main annoyance I found is that whilst there are #IDE -> #SATA adaptors that can just be plonk'd directly onto the mainboard, they are always either single-port or these weird "bidirectional" ones which means instead of a jumper/switch to say what side is the drive have two SATA ports and can only use one at the time.

• There seems to be no IDE -> 2x SATA ports with like "master"/"slave" ports for SATA devices.

I know why these adaptors exist, so that there needs to be no manual printed (silkscreen explains everything) and only 1 part be made regardless if IDE-> SATA or SATA->IDE.

Still doesn't make it less annoying.

• Maybe someone wants to take a look at the "stupider" IDE->SATA Adaptors and consider designing an IDE -> Dual-SATA adaptor?

@kkarhan >a stack of cheap #SATA-SSDs already beats #LTO-9 tapes unless you need to backup literal #Petabytes and need the fancy features like #WORM media

Data retention is a fancy feature now? Sure, flash beats tape if you don't mind returning to blank SSDs after a couple of years in storage.

@alterelefant @Heidi

@alterelefant @Heidi As of now, we can see stuff like the #ExaDrive, a 100TB 3,5" SSD for #online - #archival storage.

• As #Helium-filled #SMR-#HDD|s struggle to meet the demand for storage at an acceptable thermal & power envelope and price, #SSD|s will inevitable take over as not only the more robust media but also cheaper, more dense and easier to use.

As for the #NeoFloppy that thing could be made - I'm just not good enough layouting PCBs with the precision needed for #PCIe signalling...

• Needless to say if constant write speed and lifetime in writes is secondary, then a stack of cheap #SATA-SSDs already beats #LTO-9 tapes unless you need to backup literal #Petabytes and need the fancy features like #WORM media.

That being said, it's inevitable that even WORM as a feature may be copied over.

• In fact #ZFS can already offer many features of #LTFS, including read-only snapshots and thus append-only #archives.

Until there are #COTS solutions tho, LTO #Tape and other options will OFC remain dominant and relevant.

• Still I'd happily see storage vendors take up the NeoFloppy and build something off it.

@landley yeah, basically I'm looking for a stage 1 thingy that BIOS can see as bootable device and that allows to do the usual "yeet kernel+initramfs into ram and floor it".

• Kinda "#BootROM" similar to #OptionROM|s...

Worst-case I could just look for some sort of #SATA-DOM / -Board that offers a hardware write protection or can do #readonly #Flash instead...

@lanodan @volpeon yes and no as it only accounts for #SATA / #SAS, #USB, #NVMe & #eMMC devices, not vdX and others…

The correct way to enshure you #wipe all the drives is to run shred over an array of all the physical devices ( as output by lsblk -e7 -d -io NAME -n )!

Like this script does…

• You're welcome!

@ErikUden @andypiper #SD wasn't really made for a lot of writes.

Luckily the #RaspberryPi5 supports #USB, #PCIe and #SD to boot and like @geerlingguy tested on the #CM4, even #SATA-SSDs connected via a PCIe Controller...