What is the realistic limit to using a Raspberry Pi for actual mining?

[number435398]

A single USB controller can handle up to 127 devices (including hubs). So, a single raspberry pi could, theoretically, be connected to over 100 of the 32tb external hard drives, which would work out to 3.2pb. Or 1pb from 100 of the 10tb drives. Can a single raspberry pi really go through that much data in a timely manner so as to truly mine Chia? I feel like there's either a dynamic I'm unaware of to the mining of this coin, or there's got to be an upper limit that's not being discussed. Some external drives are slow to begin with and combined with their space, all being searched by something as computationally pathetic (in the crypto world) as a raspberry pi, I am truly wondering what the ultimate truth is.

[BrandtH22]

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