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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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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 short /dev/sdc1 and waiting a few minutes: $ sudo…
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External SSD or External HDD more suitable for Raspberry Pi 2 Model B?

I just bought a Rasberry Pi and I want to turn it into a media center, but I dunno if I should use SSD or HDD, I know SSD is faster, but HDD is cheaper so.
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How to connect SATA drives without USB

I want to connect a SSD SATA HDD to the pi without using USB. Possible? I was hoping some sort of module would be available or a way of connecting using a breadboard. Tried searching on stack overflow and Google.
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Attach SAS Drives

I have 4 SAS drives that used to be in a server that just died. Is there any way to add a SAS controller to the Ras Pi so I can use it as a NAS?
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What are pin headers and what are they used for

I see almost all modern development boards (Raspberry Pi, Cubieboard, Odroid, etc) have pin headers attached. I couldn't find a clear description of what they do. What are the practical uses of them? Can I, for example, make some sort of SATA…
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Rasbian can not mount WD external HDD at boot

I am very new to any sort of linux and just started to use raspberry pi 2 running on raspbian. I just attached my WD Passport Ultra through USB port, which is powered by rpi itself. with command sudo fdsik -l, i am able to see /dev/sda and…
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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 provide a script to automatically reboot the Raspberry…
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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 320 GB ext4 external hard drive which had the…
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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 everything is downloaded to. The problem is that at…
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Raspberry Pi sees HDD as an "ntfs" drive, despite being formatted

I have been attempting to convert my drives filesystem over to EXT4, purely because it will always be plugged into the Raspberry Pi thus it is just much better to go through ext4. I am having a problem, however - regardless of what I do, blkid…
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Best HDD for NAS server?

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…
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Not found external HDD with Raspberry

I've recently bought 2 HDD (Seagate ST1000LM048 2'5 1To) and 2 Icy Box IB-AC603 (USB 2) to build a little & cheap NAS server with a Raspberry model B+ (tried with version 2 and 3), following this tutorial. I plug the hdd via USB with the Icy Box on…
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Can I use my old HDD as a boot device for the RPi 3 model b?

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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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 formatted in NTFS, I added some lines fstab to auto…
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Raspberry pi doesn't recognize HDD NTFS

I was trying to create a NAS by using my Raspberry Pi B+. I've connected my Samsung 1 TB HDD to USB and then I've used the command fdisk -l in order to manually mount the drive. My Pi didn't recognize it. I've tried to unplug/re-plug it into a…
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