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Add notes on Penta SATA HAT.
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_hats/radxa-penta-sata-hat.md

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There's also an 'Expansion interface' with connections for OLED and Fan control, but there is no included adapter for such purposes. So you'd probably want to connect a little fan to the Pi's fan header for the Pi itself, or a USB fan for the drives, if needed.
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It looks like the SATA controller is a JMB585 PCIe Gen 3x2 SATA controller, so it could benefit from running the Pi 5's PCIe lane at Gen 3.0 speeds (setting dtparam=pciex1_gen=3 in /boot/firmware/config.txt).
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It looks like the SATA controller is a JMB585 PCIe Gen 3x2 SATA controller, so it benefits from running the Pi 5's PCIe lane at Gen 3.0 speeds.
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To use the board at Gen 3.0 speeds, after connecting it to the Pi, you need to add the following lines to `/boot/firmware/config.txt`:
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```
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dtparam=pciex1
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dtparam=pciex1_gen=3
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```
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I was able to get sequential read speeds around 800-850 MB/sec with an array of four Samsung QVO SSDs set up in RAID 0.

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