Questions tagged [hard-drive]
Questions related to connection hard disks to the Raspberry Pi. For primary storage media, see sd-card.
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NTFS USB device seen, but not the partitions
I have a Toshiba 1TB USB external drive attached to a Raspberry Pi running:
VERSION="7 (wheezy)"
The USB device is seen. It is creating a /dev/sda.
However, I can't mount the partition as the ...
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Raspberry pi 1 model b+: External hard drives stop working
I have a raspberry pi 1 model b+.
I try to use my hard drives with it however, usually after several minutes of writing/reading the hard drives suddenly stop working. And they won't work until I ...
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Connect RPi to Hard Drive Connected to Router
I am trying to connect my Pi to a hard drive connected to my router.
This was easy to do on Windows, but I can't figure out how to do it on here. Please help
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external hard drive keeps disconnecting
My setup is:
Raspberry Pi 3
powered by cable "Raspberry Pi 3 Power adapter UK/EU 5V 2.5A"
External 3.5 inch hard drive "WD Blue 1TB Desktop Hard Disk Drive"
in an external hard drive case "CiT 3.5 ...
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How to setup a Raspberry Pi to make media files of hard drive available everywhere?
What I want
I would like to use a Raspberry Pi 3 attached to my home router to make available a hard drive with a bunch of media files (pictures and videos) to all my devices. (kind of a homemade ...
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Using external disk connected to RPI as time machine
I have tried to use this guide to use an external hard disk connected to a Raspberry Pi as a time machine. It succeeded in that I have made the Raspberry Pi visible on my mac, so that I am able to ...
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Transmission: access denied
I installed transmission on my raspberry pi and set it up to download directly onto a mounted external hdd. The drive is mounted using following fstab entry:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/old ntfs ...
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Unable to connect to headless rpi; rpi won't stay connected to router
I got a raspberrypi 3 setup with Jessie (2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie.img), and everything working great with it. It was connected to the router via ethernet, and I could connect either on my local ...
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Switching from 128 to 512GB USB storage drive makes computer unusably slow
I run Bitcoin on my raspberry pi 3. I have been storing the blockchain on a 128 GB USB SSD drive:
https://www.amazon.com/MyDigitalSSD-SuperSpeed-Portable-External-Storage/dp/B00N0V4JG2
The ...
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Will RPI3 power down an external USB hard disk if not used for a certain amount of time?
Supposing I am more interested in power consumption than the lifespan of the HDD, does Raspberry Pi 3 power down automatically an external USB hard disk?
If it doesn't do it automatically by default, ...
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Can Raspberry Pi draw power FROM an external HD?
I just hooked up an external Kingston SATA drive with a SATA-USB adaptor to my Pi 2B. I powered the disk from a separate USB hub, the Pi had its power from a common micro-USB PSU.
Then something a ...
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External storage without supplementary power
Is there an external storage without needing supplementary power? (i.e. a second power adapter)
EDIT: Would a very light-weight external USB SSD, such as this Verbatim, have a low enough consumption? ...
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Usage of external HDD, power consumption
I'm thinking in getting a RPi+USB HDD to make a server in my office, it would be working 24/7 and the primary usage would be to storage backups which would be automatically uploaded from different ...
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Lagging/Stuttering video on Local HDD
I have an RPI-2-B with OpenELEC/Kodi installed. I am currently uncertain of the version, but I will get right back with that as soon as I can. I recently moved a series to one of my HDD's directly ...
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Can you mount/unmout hard drives that are powered and connected to the raspberry pi via a usb hub?
I want to setup a raspberry pi with two external hard drives for backup purposes.
Because of the raspberry pi power limitation, i guess i will have to use a usb hub to power them up.
My question is ...
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External HDD with its own power not turning on - Raspberry Pi 3
I'm trying to set up my Pi as a Plex server and wanted to plug in and mount my storage drive, but it doesn't even start spinning.
I'm using this HDD enclosure (which has its own power source) with a ...
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Cannot mount an external EXT4 HDD
I have a 2TB 3.5" hard disk attached to a powered SATA to USB 3.0 adapter, which is connected to my Raspberry Pi 2. The Pi will boot with the drive attached and the drive will show up in fdisk -l, but ...
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Is it possible to auto mount OSx Extended File system partitioned drive on raspbian Jessie with write permission?
I have OSx Extended formatted hard disk which I want to mount on Raspbian Jessie,
I am following this in /etc/fstab
# New OSx Journel File System 160 GB HDD added on Sun Sept 25 - 14:28 IST 2016
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Raspberry pi boots to root user in terminal when mounted USB HDD is not plugged in
This is a weird problem, I have raspibian OS Jessie installed on my pi3 . So the problem is Raspberry pi boots to root user in terminal when mounted USB HDD is not plugged into USB port.
I have set ...
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Raspbian on HardDrive
I'm currently running an apache2 server off my Raspberry Pi 2 with no problems and everything is going smoothly. Recently, my organization (which uses the Pi) came upon a pretty good computer and we ...
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Permission issues using sickrage and transmission
I've setup transmission and sickrage to automattically download series. This went well, however when Sickrage tries to move the files, it gets stuck and the logs say: 2016-07-25 16:10:13 POSTPROCESSER ...
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External powered HDD not listed after boot
I have an hub for HDDs where I have two of them (WD purple 2TB).
If the Raspberry is ON and I switch on also the hub, the two HDDs are recognized by the Pi as sda and sdb (listed with sudo fdisk -l). ...
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Mount usb hdd with exec
I have a usb hdd that I am trying to mount with exec -- so I can run executable files from the disk.
In fstab I have:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdisk auto rw,exec,user 0 1
But when I ...
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Raspberry Pi 2 not finding External HD
My Raspberry Pi 2 will not pick up my NTFS external hard drive.
In dmesg I see the message USB Disconnect. I have NTFS-3g installed.
/dev/sda1 does not exist.
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setting File Properties does not work
I recently got my first RasPi and once I've set it up I attached an external Harddrive to download files onto.
When I checked the Permissions in File Properties I noticed that it was set to:
Owner:...
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Display disappears when I connect external HDD
I am completely new to raspberry pi.I have a raspberry pi2 and have loaded the raspbian linux that came with it. Now i want to use my old sata hdd for which i have bought a 3.5 inch casing(which works ...
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How to use the same hdd with raspbian and windows?
What filesystem should I choose so that I can use my HDD with both raspbian and windows?
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How to set up external HDD to hold repositories with GitLab [closed]
I'm trying to set up GitLab on Raspberry Pi 2. I have connected external HDD to the Raspberry to store the repositories.
I have mounted the external HDD to /mnt as a fuseblk file system. This can be ...
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Pi 2 rainbow square when external HDD is plugged
I have Pi 2 with Samsung (5V 2A) phone charger as its power supply.
When USB external HDD is plugged, I got this small square with rainbow color on the right top of the screen. I looked around the ...
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Unable to mount external harddrive (Openmediavault)
I try to connect a harddrive via a SATA to USB3 adapter to my raspberry (The adapter is externally powered, so there cannot be a power problem).
The adapter gets detected and shows up under /dev/sda ...
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Raspberry Pi doesn't recognize HDD in powered USB Hub
I just bought an powered USB hub (http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/cat-4761_UH700.html) so that I can connect an external NTFS HDD ( http://tw.adata.com/es/hdd/feature/168) to my raspberry ...
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Raspberry Pi 3: microSD card vs hard drive
In my bachelor's thesis I compared the speed performance of a hard drive connected via USB adapter with a microSD card. I was challenged to answer the question "Why is the difference in speed drives ...
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Connecting external Hard Drive to Raspberry Pi 2 [duplicate]
I am trying to connect a 2 Tb external Hard drive (ADATA HD710) to my raspberry pi, but the problem is that when I connect it to one of the USB ports, the raspberry pi stops working. I am not sure if ...
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USB HDD on Raspberry Pi 2 Model B? [duplicate]
I have a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B and a 2,5 inch HDD that I want to connect via USB. The HDD also powers itself over USB. Does the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B provide enough power? Can I safely run the HDD ...
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How can I run smartctl in Raspbian?
I have several USB hard drives that have SMART capabilities. I know this, because they work fine on my normal computer. However, the Pi (Model 3B) reports them as not.
After running sudo smartctl -t ...
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Raspberry Pi not booting whn etxernal disk fails to mount via Fstab
I have a raspberry pi that has an external drive that mounts via fstab. Sometimes the pi refuses to boot when the external drive doesn't spin up fast enough (albeit the drive is quite old). Is there ...
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Sending extra power to PI3 over USB, will it damage the device?
I used to get poor performance from my PI 3 since I had a few heavy load programs running on it. After needing more than 128GB of MicroSD storage I got a USB to SATA cable and hooked up a 500GB SSD ...
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Can I use my old HDD as a boot device for the RPi 3 model b? [duplicate]
I have my laptops old 2TB 5400RPM HDD laying around and I was wondering if could maybe use it instead of a micro SD card since it has much more space, and it also might be quicker.
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Despite having powered USB Hub, Raspberry Pi 2+ doesn't detect Seagate 1TB HDD anymore
I'm trying to set up a raspberry pi 2+ as an always on torrent box. I had it set up one time and it was working, but then when I turned it off and on again it froze on start up. After flashing the ...
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Raspbian won't boot when hard drive is connected
Not sure if this has anything to do with the make/model of hard drive I'm using, but when I connect my WD MyPassport Ultra to my Raspberry Pi 2 and then reset Pi, Raspbian doesn't load. If I just plug ...
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Exteral HDD problems
I currently have some annoying problem with external HDD. I'm using some old (7yrs) WD salvaged from laptop in portable enclosure. I have external 4A PSU wich power drive and backfeed rpi. Disk is ...
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After power outage, my NAS drive isn't automounting
I have a RPi 1 Model B, configured as a torrent box, running Wheezy with Webmin, deluge torrent and Sickrage. To store the medias, i put a 2tb external hard drive on my router Linksys EA6400 and i ...
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External hard drive shutting down?
I've been setting up my Raspberry Pi 2 (Model B) as a home media center with OSMC and load contents from my external hard drive.
My problem is whenever the hard drive (this) is connected to the ...
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Raid 1 and Owncloud
I have done a Raid 1 system using 2 external HD connected to the Pi2, now I want to install owncloud in the raspberry using the raid to avoid losses, using the external HD connected to store the data.
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Raid 1 using the same HD
I want to make a owncloud server in the raspberry and previously I want to make a Raid of my HD to avoid losses.
I have a 3TB external HD with 2 partitions of the same size and I want to use:
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RPI freeze with external HDD
I have an RPI 2 Model B. I just started to use it. I am connecting to it using SSH. I have an internal HDD and also a dock. The dock has it's own power source and transmits the data from the HDD to a ...
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Issue keeping attached HDD online
I have a Pi B2 which I am using as a home server running Transmission, Sabnzbd, Couch Potato & SickBeard. To the PI I have attached an old internal hard disk made external (80 GB). This is where ...
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Do I have to buy a powered USB hub?
Tomorrow I will buy a RPi 2 B, which I would like to use with an external 2.5 HD (5v 1A) and a single 2A charger (connected to the microUSB port). Will I be able to run both of them by adding ...
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Keyboard and mouse stops working after connecting usb hard drive
The wireless USB keyboard stops working when I connect a USB hard drive. I also tried to connect a non wireless USB mouse together with the USB disk and the mouse stopped working.
I'm running ...
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Having two 2.5'' drives makes one turn off the other on plug
Currently I 'm using my RPi 2 with a 1 TB external Toshiba USB drive.Back in the day, I had to set max_usb_current=1 in my /boot/config.txt file, because when I plugged it in it would keep trying to ...
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