PINE64

Is there a way, or a prebuilt component I can buy to connect my SBC to SSD using SATA? (not USB to SATA).
Thanks

(07-26-2017, 06:35 AM)t_ras Wrote: [ -> ]Is there a way, or a prebuilt component I can buy to connect my SBC to SSD using SATA? (not USB to SATA).
Thanks

You need to use a bridge of some kind;  there is no sata port on the PineA64+

Thanks for the answer. The problem is that I fear USB3.0 won't be much faster than just using an SD card (am I wrong?).
I thought maybe one of the other IO ports with some bridge would be faster.

(07-26-2017, 08:31 AM)t_ras Wrote: [ -> ]Thanks for the answer. The problem is that I fear USB3.0 won't be much faster than just using an SD card (am I wrong?).
I thought maybe one of the other IO ports with some bridge would be faster.

Are you speaking about the Rock64 or the PineA64+ ?

... there is no usb3.0 on the Pine board.  There is a usb3.0 port on the Rock64 and its very fast; as you would expect, works nicely.  You have the option of running the OS from the eMMC module on the Rock64.

(07-26-2017, 08:31 AM)t_ras Wrote: [ -> ]Thanks for the answer. The problem is that I fear USB3.0 won't be much faster than just using an SD card (am I wrong?).
I thought maybe one of the other IO ports with some bridge would be faster.

I hope that was a typo... as USB3 will be considerably quicker than using a SD card, even on the rock64, let alone the pine64. And one the pine64, even USB2 is with the right drive. I can't remember the exact numbers, but the SD on the pine64 tops off around 20MB/s regardless of card (it's an interface limit), whereas you can pull closer to around 35MB/s on the USB2 USB port (think it's 40MB/s theoretical, but I have had ~35MB/s transfers over ethernet using a good USB2 drive).

It is Pine, so USB2. Thanks for the help.