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It doesn't need to be a USB 3.0 drive. The RPi is USB 2.0 only.
by iuguy 13y ago
It doesn't need to be a USB 3.0 drive. The RPi is USB 2.0 only.
- rubenfonseca 13y agoI've stopped reading when he really recommended that you get a USB 3.0 drive to connect to a RPi :P
- tankbot 13y agoI kept reading expecting an explanation for this, but there isn't one. Does he understand the difference? Who knows. The explanation of "every step of the build" is pretty limited too.
- reustle 13y agoI do understand this but what is wrong with recommending picking up a USB 3 external drive over USB 2? I doubt the Pi is the only device it will be used with.
- MrSlo 13y ago"I am still working on the best way to access the data without disconnecting the drive from the Raspberry Pi every time I want to add/remove something." It sounds like he's putting the data on the USB drives from other computers, not from the RPi.
- davidarkemp2 13y agowith a 150Mbps wifi adapter
- Zoomla 13y agoplus, the RPi can't even achieve full USB 2.0 speed, it is not a good choice for a file server.
- bigiain 13y agoFWIW, in this use-case the limit is the wifi or more likey your internet connection speed. You don't really need blazing disk read/write speeds for your "Dropbox clone" - if you can read and write data as fast as your adsl connection goes - anything more is "wasted". As a general purpose file server though - yeah, a 'Pi isn't going to stream multiple HD videos to all 4 bedrooms on your home network.
- gnur 13y agoBoth my wifi and internet connection speed are well over the 2megabytes/s I'm getting on my pi, which really is the only downside I have found with my pi.
- Zoomla 13y agoWhen I setup a file-server for myself, I set it up on the local network I use most, so the Internet speed is relevant, but not that much.