fromcologne posted on our forum interesting tutorial how to setup rootfs on SATA drive and to setup your own cloud service with A20-OLinuXino-MICRO.
Now you can keep all your work files, pictures, movies to your own Cloud storage service and have access to them via your phone, laptop, tablet etc devices.
Good work!
olimex 
Aug 20, 2014 @ 21:59:34
Reblogged this on Freedom Embedded and commented:
An application note to setup a very small file server at home, with an embedded ARM board and a SATA hard disk. I’m curious about how much (little) power this setup could consume using a 2.5″ SSD hard drive.
Aug 20, 2014 @ 22:41:45
With an ssd drive the typical power consumption still should be less than 3-4 Watts, given that the A20 is said to consume less than 2 Watts and an the power consumption of an ssd drive is typically less than 1 Watt (with some peaks of 2-3 Watts) (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/samsung-840-evo-review-1tb-ssd,3567-13.html) .
I also have a setup like this, with a Samsung 120GB ssd. Uboot and kernel were built using the guides on linux-sunxi.org and I got my rootfs directly from debian, and I also applied the uEnv.txt trick 2 weeks ago.
Having the rootfs on ssd, at first the responsiveness hardly had improved. After upgrading to Debian “Jessie” it got much better but I still have to research how to further improve this.