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Have you a recommandation of HDD (+2to) for a NAS server with a raspberry pi b+ please ?

And I would like know if it's possible automaticaly turn on/off the hdd when the raspberry don't call a movie. By example on windows, if I don't use the file inside my second hdd, the hdd don't run, but if I open a folder inside this hdd, the hdd run.

Axel Briche
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Have you a recommandation of HDD (+2to) for a NAS server with a raspberry pi b+ please ?

Anything that's a normal drive should be fine, since the USB storage protocol is standardized and individual devices should not require any special drivers (unlike, e.g., wifi adapters).

And I would like know if it's possible automaticaly turn on/off the hdd when the raspberry don't call a movie.

See man hdparm (you may have to install hdparm first, on raspbian apt-get install hdparm). By default power saving modes aren't enabled, but

hdparm -B 127 [device]

should do it, then e.g. hdparm -S 241 [device] will set it to idle after 30 minutes of inactivity.

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