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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Monitoring LVM disks for failures
I've created a RAID1 array in LVM (lvcreate -m1 --type raid1....). The system is unattended, so I would now like a notification email if one of the disks fail. I could probably write a cron job to ...
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How to automatically reboot if external hard drive not mounted?
Sometime my external hard drive is dismounted even though I had configure ftsab correctly and using powered usb hub for the drive. I usually solve this this by rebooting the system.
Can someone ...
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mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exists
I bought a Raspberry Pi and installed Raspbian and transmission.
I want to connect my USB hard drive to save there the transmission's downloads.
The HDD is formatted in FAT32, Windows recognizes it ...
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how to move multiple OS installed by berryboot to hdd?
I have 5 OS that came pre-installed with berryboot on my 16GB SD card.
I have a 2TB external hdd. I plan to use it as my media server/player/NAS/torrentbox.
From research, I learnt that it's advisable ...
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HDD without external power is working. Is this dangerous?
I have connected a 2,5" HDD to my Raspberry Pi directly and it works.
The only one question I have - Can my HDD/RPi be damaged?
(When I use the HDD without powered usb hub - Are there any risks?)
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Harddrive detected as 13fd:160e Initio Corporation instead of 1058:1010 Western Digital
I have the following configuration:
A Raspberry Pi model B connected to a powered USB hub, with the +5V detached from it (otherwise the hub powers the Pi due to backfeed). They work fine together and ...
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Use smaller space when i have expand it?
I have expand the images to use 8gb, but my problem now is i want to create a images so orther people can use my software, how can i make it smaller?
Right now i use a 8gb sd card and when i use a dd ...
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External hard drive power down?
So I have an Openelec and external hard drive on my raspberry pi, they are all connected to a Plugin 10 Port Hub.
This is the hard drive in question:
http://www.seagate.com/external-hard-drives/...
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OpenELEC W/External 24/7 Ok to do?
So for a fathers day present my dad has been wanting a small media center forever, he saw my raspberry pi setup and loved it and wanted one for himself. So I got him a good setup, gonna throw openelec ...
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USB Hard drive mounting as Read-Only
I've been mounting it with sudo mount -t ntfs -o umask=000 /dev/sda1 "/media/My Book" but for some reason it now says mount: warning: /media/My Book/ seems to be mounted read-only when I do so, and ls ...
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Cannot get Transmission find the data of my torrents
I have a raspberry pi set up and I want it open 24/7 for seeding my torrents.
At first, I plugged in a 8GB NTFS usb stick and I seeded a bit from there, and everything was fine.
Then, I changed to a ...
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Could you write directly on an external hdd drive with owncloud reading the files?
I have a small owncloud server on Raspbian and owncloud stores all data on an external hdd drive wich is connected to the raspbeerry pi. Right now I would like to upload all my movies, music etc. to ...
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How do I set up a storage device that is only "on" when used?
I use my Pi as a homeserver (headless via ssh, always on, restarted once a week). It's running raspbian, and I am running Ubuntu on my Desktop. Now, I want to add hard drives for backups and NAS to ...
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Failed fsck on external drive stops boot
I have the very familiar problem eth0: kevent 2 may have been dropped when torrenting to a usb hard drive and already increased the memory and disabled the turbo mode, however occasionaly my Pi still '...
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Is there a system that i can run that can seamlessly pull audio and video files from a flash drive?
I noticed that a lot of people are asking about video performance capabilities and things along those lines, but they all seem to be either streaming their videos through Ethernet via Youtube, etc or ...
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USB BOOT on 2013-02-09 wheezy raspbian
I've heard about extending life on the SD cards by moving directories to a usb HD but that booting from a SD card is still needed... readig through old questions i saw people comenting on how you ...
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Make fsck run without intervention after non-clean shutdown
I'm using my raspberry pi as a NAS mostly. If on reboot it does a non-clean fsck the pi dumps to a terminal. I don't have it hooked up to a monitor or keyboard so this is a pain for me to actually ...
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WD Passport disconnects and remounts itself
I have a Western Digital 500GB passport plugged into my Raspberry Pi through a powered hub. The problem is that it seems to lose the connection and unmount every so often with the following dmesg:
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Why does after adding .torrent file in deluge, it errors?
here's a screenshot. i figured after changing the target directory to /media/exthdd from /home/pi which is the default. i cannot understand why it wont accept my hdd, it just errors, the default ...
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Mount External HDD using OpenElec
I have a pi with Openelec and I have an external HDD, powered. When I go into the file management section of settings I can't find my HDD. I am assuming that Openelec/XBMC is not auto mounting the ...
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External Hard-drive backing up using Time-Machine
I want to connect an external Hard-drive (1TB) to my Raspberry Pi. However I want to do the following:
1) Partition 500GB for backing-up using "Time Machine"
2) Partition 250GB for general use for ...
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Transmission: permission denied on USB disk
I have Raspberry Pi running RaspBMC with a WD MyBook connected using USB. The drive is automatically mounted to /media/My Book. I have created a folder /media/My Book/downloads and I have set ...
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External Hard Drive w/ Powered Hub will not mount
I recently purchased this USB hub for use with my raspberry pi. However I've been having issues with it and my external hard drive.
When I plug the drive in everything appears to be okay. The LED on ...
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Is it possibly to have my pi play videos stored on my external hard drive?
im very new to all this, and i want to know if its possibly to have my raspberry pi play movies and such that i have stored on a WD My passport 500GB External Hard Drive. ive mounted the hard drive i ...
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RPi rev 2 and USB powered harddrive
I am getting my RasperryPi Rev2 soon, and I plan to use it as a media centre. I have a WesternDigital Elements 1TB USB3 2.5" USB powered external harddrive. I know that a normal USB port outputs 500mA,...
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Is hard disk necessary for not over-using the sd?
I recently got my rPI and I was thinking about using it as a torrent hub: in case this word is not accurate, I mean that I want to run a torrent client on my box, freeing my other computers.
For that,...
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Would a Compaq Presario V6000 laptop monitor be just fine for the RPi? [duplicate]
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Connect Pi to an old laptop screen
My Compaq Presario V6000 laptop just had an HDD failure and I took it apart and salvaged the monitor. I was wondering if I could use the ...
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can I use a disk larger than 320 GB with RPi?
I have a 500GB Toshiba 2.5' HD, which I formated using Debian Wheezy 64bit. I created 2 partitions (180GB and 320GB).
RPi would only recognize the first partition.
So, I tried creating the ...
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Problems with External Hard Drive - kernel: journal commit I/O error
I'm having issues keeping a 3TB USB 2.0 External Hard drive (self powered) mounted on my pi.
I'm using a 1.0 A wall charger to power the pi. I'm connecting the hard drive to a powered Belkin USB hub ...
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Periodically losing connection to external hard drive
I have the following setup
Raspberry Pi : Hardware BCM2708, Revision 0002
Powered USB Hub: Manhattan Hi-Speed USB 2.0 Micro Hub
External Hard drive: Western Digital My Passport 0730
The pi is ...
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What is the best way to reliably mount a USB drive?
I've installed raspbmc, but from what I've seen it's based on raspbian, so this might go for raspbian too.
I've connected a USB hard-drive. Most of the time, it will be automatically mounted on /...
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Where's my USB Disk / Memory Stick
So, I did a
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
today and it all went smoothly from an installation point of view. My Wi-Fi dongle works much better as well. However, the PI now fails to see ...
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Why doesn't my external hard drive appear in /dev?
I want to mount my external HDD, but my Raspberry Pi can't recognize anything.
I loaded usb-storage with modprobe, but if I insert the HDD into the USB port, nothing changes. I can't see any changes ...
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Boot from USB hard disk?
Is there a way to boot from an external hard drive connected to the device through the USB port (as opposed to booting from the SD card)?
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How can I use a USB HDD to extend the life of my SD Card?
How can I set up a USB HDD to extend the life of my SD Card and maximize the performance of my Raspberry Pi?
Related: How can I extend the life of my SD card?
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Can I attach a SATA controller?
I would like to use my Raspberry Pi as a file server (NAS/SMB).
Will I be able to attach a SATA/RAID controller?
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