Raspberry pi external hard drive read only

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Once you have gathered up the hardware, followed along with the Getting Started with Raspberry Pi tutorial to get up to speed (and are running Raspian) itвЂ™s time to start setting up your Pi as a NAS. Preparing for and Mounting the External Hard Drives Second, weвЂ™re using Samba for our network shares, again because of the convenience of meshing the Raspberry Pi NAS with our predominantly Windows network.

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Should the Raspberry Pi NAS fail for some reason or we want to quickly copy information over a USB 3.0 connection instead of via the network, having NTFS-formatted disks makes it dead simple to take the portable USB drives weвЂ™re using on the NAS build and plug them right into one of the many Windows machines we use every day. While most users will want to follow along exactly as weвЂ™ve done it, you may wish to tweak specific steps to better fit your needs and how you use the computers on your network.ДЇirst, weвЂ™re using NTFS-formatted hard disks. You can use any external hard drives you have on hand but itвЂ™s ideal to use small low-power drives if possible since the whole theme of the project is to set up a tiny and low-power NAS you can just tuck out of the way and forget about.Д«efore we continue, there are a couple design choices we made in terms of how weвЂ™re configuring our Raspberry Pi NAS that you should be aware of. TheyвЂ™re super small, donвЂ™t require an external power source, and were on sale when we were shopping for parts.

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For the purposes of this tutorial weвЂ™re using a matching pair of Seagate Backup Plus 1TB Portable External Hard Drives. We highly recommend using at least two hard drives in order to allow for local (at the Raspberry Pi) data redundancy. ThatвЂ™s it! If you just want a simple network attached drive, youвЂ™ll only need one hard drive.

Two (at minimum) USB external hard drives for local data redundancy.

One (at minimum) USB external hard drive for simple network backups and file serving.

In addition to the gear youвЂ™ll need from the Getting Started with Raspberry Pi tutorial, youвЂ™ll only the following hardware: This tutorial builds on our previous tutorial: The HTG Guide to Getting Started with Raspberry Pi and weвЂ™ll assume youвЂ™ve already completed that-in other words you already have your Raspberry Pi, got it powered up, hooked to a mouse and keyboard, and youвЂ™ve installed Raspbian on it. For such tasks the Raspberry Pi is more than powerful enough and will save you a chunk of change in power use. For most people, however, the principle purpose of having an always-on computer somewhere in the house is to serve as a file server and file backup repository.

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WeвЂ™ll be the first to grant you that a full fledged server is going to have more storage space and the capability to do more work (such as transcoding a multi-terabyte video collection in a reasonable span of time). A Raspberry Pi-based network storage device on the other hand, consumes about $5 worth of power per year. Our office server, for example, runs 24/7 and consumes almost $200 worth of power a year. The downside, in most instances, is that youвЂ™re consuming a fair amount of power for the convenience.

The benefit of having an always-on network storage device is that itвЂ™s extremely convenient to have your data (or backup destination) always accessible to the computers both inside and outside your network.

Raspberry pi external hard drive read only