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Published inJun 2015
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Ryad El-Dajani
Ryad El-Dajani
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Ryad El-Dajani

Ryad El-Dajani is a software engineer and passionate technology enthusiast. He developed an interest in computers when he was 10 years old. Soon thereafter, he began to learn his first programming languages. After he had completed his training as an IT specialist, he worked on several e-commerce Internet projects. Currently, he is studying business computing and works for a big IT company in Germany, realizing various IT projects based on Java or .NET technologies. Besides the classic application development, he has professional experience in realizing projects based on web frameworks such as Spring, Play, Symfony, eZ Publish, and Magento. Moreover, he has been excited about all kinds of Unix-like embedded systems since the revolutionary SheevaPlug.
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Mounting an SSD or HDD via SATA


Besides the mounting of disks via USB, the Banana Pi provides a SATA interface. This interface provides greatly improved performance compared to USBs for hard disk drives (HDD) or solid state disks (SSD).

Getting ready

This recipe requires the following ingredients:

  • A Banana Pi

  • USB power supply unit

  • An SD card containing a Linux distribution

  • A hard disk drive or solid state drive

  • A SATA-to-SATA cable and a SATA power supply for your drive or SATA cable with power supply terminals

  • Access to the Banana Pi's shell

All these products can be bought from retailers. The SATA cable with power supply terminals is quite rare. You might search for that item on online stores that specialize in single-board computers. If you search for Banana Pi SATA cable with power terminals or similar on your desired search engine, you will find retailers for that product.

How to do it…

The mounting of an external drive via SATA is similar to the mounting of a USB flash drive we discovered in...

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Ryad El-Dajani

Ryad El-Dajani is a software engineer and passionate technology enthusiast. He developed an interest in computers when he was 10 years old. Soon thereafter, he began to learn his first programming languages. After he had completed his training as an IT specialist, he worked on several e-commerce Internet projects. Currently, he is studying business computing and works for a big IT company in Germany, realizing various IT projects based on Java or .NET technologies. Besides the classic application development, he has professional experience in realizing projects based on web frameworks such as Spring, Play, Symfony, eZ Publish, and Magento. Moreover, he has been excited about all kinds of Unix-like embedded systems since the revolutionary SheevaPlug.
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