# The One with Jeff Geerling

URL: /show/self-hosted/41/
> Special guest Jeff Geerling tells us how he got 16 drives connected to one Pi.

- Show: [Self-Hosted](/show/self-hosted/)
- Episode: 41
- Date: 2021-03-26
- Hosts: alex, chris
- Guests: geerling
- Duration: 00:33:33
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/7296e34a-2697-479a-adfb-ad32329dd0b0/3df37ac7-1975-4b62-ad6e-8212d87e0e1a.mp3
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/MymJWaAHEQY



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### Episode Links

  * [Nabu Casa has acquired ESPHome](https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2021/03/18/nabu-casa-has-acquired-esphome/ "Nabu Casa has acquired ESPHome") — Today I’m happy to announce that ESPHome is from now on under the Nabu Casa umbrella.
  * [ESPHome](https://esphome.io/ "ESPHome")
  * [Jeff Geerling - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR-DXc1voovS8nhAvccRZhg "Jeff Geerling - YouTube") — K8s, Ansible, Raspberry Pi, photography, tech, DIY, tools, etc. Most anything has the potential for showing up on this channel. I might focus on one thing someday, but it's more fun to do ALL THE THINGS!
  * [Hardware RAID on the Raspberry Pi CM4 | Jeff Geerling](https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/hardware-raid-on-raspberry-pi-cm4 "Hardware RAID on the Raspberry Pi CM4 | Jeff Geerling") — Now I have actual enterprise SAS drives running on a hardware RAID controller on a Raspberry Pi, and it's faster than the 'fastest' SATA RAID array I set up in that other video.
  * [Enterprise SAS RAID ...on a RASPBERRY PI?! - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gAUApGaWKk "Enterprise SAS RAID ...on a RASPBERRY PI?! - YouTube")
  * [I built the fastest Raspberry Pi SATA RAID NAS! - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWev1THtA04 "I built the fastest Raspberry Pi SATA RAID NAS! - YouTube")
  * [IT WORKED! - 16 Hard Drives on the Raspberry Pi (Pi Day Special) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPI5B9QNCY4&t=957s "IT WORKED! - 16 Hard Drives on the Raspberry Pi \(Pi Day Special\) - YouTube")
  * [Building the fastest Raspberry Pi NAS, with SATA RAID](https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/building-fastest-raspberry-pi-nas-sata-raid "Building the fastest Raspberry Pi NAS, with SATA RAID")