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Can Storj and Chia run on single RPi V4? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by Big-Finding2976@alien.top to c/storj@blockchained.world

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I've got 4 x 16TB and 2 x 5TB USB HDDs currently running a Chia farm on a RPi v4 4GB. I'm thinking of using them for a Storj node instead, but I understand it could take 1-2 years to fill even one 16TB drive, so in the meantime I want to keep the other drives running the Chia farm.

I want to shuck the 4 x 16TB drives into an enclosure (Mediasonic HF2-SU3S3) to make things tidier, but I'll only be able to connect that to a single RPi via USB (or I could use a SFF Lenovo M700 PC instead of the RPi), so that will only work if Chia and Storj can run together on the same machine, with 1 drive assigned to Storj and the other three assigned to Chia (I assume the enclosure is just like a USB hub, so the machine still sees all the drives as separate).

If that won't work and I'll need two machines, I'll need to get a s/h tower PC case with 4+ 3.5" bays for the drives, and then get some SATA to USB adapters to connect them to the respective machines.

So I need to know whether I can just use one machine before I decide whether to buy an enclosure or a PC case.

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[–] BartAfterDark@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

StorJ can, but don't think I would run Chia on there. Chia uses a lot of CPU cycles, when it's doing the plotting.

[–] mtb_north_shore_dad@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, you can totally do this. I have chia and Storj running on a lower powered Mac mini.

[–] Big-Finding2976@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks. Do you have all the drives in an enclosure that connect to the PC by one USB port?

[–] mtb_north_shore_dad@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Yep, using a Terramaster 4 slot enclosure: https://www.amazon.ca/TerraMaster-External-Enclosure-Swappable-Diskless/dp/B08DSX95F4?ref_=ast_sto_dp

There are cheaper enclosures out there, but I like the look of this one.