When could we expect to have a low powered Pi with OTG over USB 3.0 standards? Can I request this on a Pi Zero future release? The closest thing we’ve got is the Pi Zero which uses 2.0. Started a project the other day to turn a Pi Zero into a wireless USB Flash Drive. Had the device connect to a 1TB iSCSI LUN on boot, and used modprobe g_mass_storage to turn the wireless LUN into a mass storage device. Setup auto login and it works great. Was going to use it as an external storage device for my PlayStation 4 but found out it only supports USB 3.0 or faster.
I think you'll find that'S poppycock. My PS4 supported USB2 devices just fine as does my PS5. Unless you were trying to use it to extend the internal storage to hold games and applications and run them directly from the USB2 drive. Given that the average domestic WiFi (and current WiFI chipsets on Pi) are significantly slower than USB2 (150Mbps) so therefore slower than USB3, moving to a fatser USB bus between Pi and PS4 won't actually improve throughput.
Wired ethernet will be faster but without additional hardware you'll only get 1Gbps. Still nowhere near what USB 3 supports.
Upon research the only thing I can find that supports this is the Rock Pi 4, but I feel that it would need its own power supply and it’s big. Would love to be able to create a wireless USB flash drive that just powers up upon plugging it into a PC, 3D Printer, Game Console, etc.
What's stopping you? I did it seven years ago: https://www.instructables.com/NAS-Acces ... d-Devices/ I really should update and put it into the same format as my other guides.
The SoC on all Pi models onyl has a single USB2 port. The 4B gets USB3 (and its USB A ports) via an onboard (but external to the SoC) VL805 USB 3 controller. The Pi5 by having the USB3 controller inside the RP1 southbridge.
Your options are:
- Work with what you have and accept that you won't be able to store games on it. Well you might be able to store them but you won't be able to run them without first copying them to the PS4's internal storage.
- Wait for RPL to develop a new model of Pi with the functionality you desire. Based on the time between Pi4 and Pi5 that's likely five years from now. The time between zero and zero2w was six years.*
- Identify a USB controller IC that can provide the functionality you want and that interfaces over a single PCIe lane, switch to a CM4, design a custom carrier board to connect that controller to the CM4's single PCIe lane.** if required write or port the necessary drivers.
**:Or use the official carrier board and an off the shelf PCIe x1 card if you can find one that does what you want.
Statistics: Posted by thagrol — Tue Sep 10, 2024 10:15 pm
