That could be helpful. I also figured out a different way, I just need to hear if it has any potential problems. A power splitter like this https://thepihut.com/products/usb-c-data-power-splitter and then use something like this https://www.newegg.com/p/27U-00H1-00118 and a sata to usb adapter rated for 5a.When I did this I modified a USB2 hub by lifting the power pin on each of the sockets of the hub and directly wiring that pin to the 5V rail of the ATX prower supply. The plug on the hub was further replaced so it could plug directly into a header on the motherboard.Yeah I want to use the pi 5 since it's the only one I have. The ports don't seem to support even close to 5 amperes. Could I get power from a sata or molex cable instead with some kind of an adapter?
You assume correctly. IS there a strong reason for using a Pi5 or is it just because that's what you have?
Some models of Pi can act as a USB device including as an ethernet adapter and a serial port. Once set up on the Pi (there's at least one guide on the forum for the ethernet gadget) the USB host sees it the same as it would see a "real" USB serial port or USB ethernet adapter.
Both the Pi and thye USB host treat it as they would any other device of the same type.
Beware though that Windows is incresingly problematic with the ethernet gadget.
Don't know. You need to check your motherboard manual to see how much current they can supply. As for the Pi 5, 5A is the recommendation but it will only use what it needs. See https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentati ... quirements
Probably none. In normal operation (and assuming the user hasn't changed/added things) there are no writes to the boot partition unless required by an update. The root partition on the other hand has constant/frequent writes the overlay redirects those into RAM which has two major effects: 1. you'll eventually run of out RAM, and 2. all writes are lost at shutdown/reboot.
It looks like I might be doing this again. If so, I'll try to take pictures to illustrate.
Statistics: Posted by MunakasTheNerd — Tue Jan 13, 2026 6:23 pm