Raspberry Pi B+: setting up a home server with just a USB Harddrive

RE: Raspberry Pi B+: setting up a home server with just a USB Harddrive

Former Member — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 17:17:56 GMT

Ok, could you give me a terminal command to open this file, and how it should look like, by the way thanks for your replys.

RE: Raspberry Pi B+: setting up a home server with just a USB Harddrive

Former Member — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 16:28:46 GMT

Desktop windows10 ( evalutionversion ), Desktop Apple iMac, and laptop xubuntu. All say pemission denied.

RE: Raspberry Pi B+: setting up a home server with just a USB Harddrive

Former Member — Sun, 14 Dec 2014 22:56:33 GMT

Hi Garret,

I followed your blog and did everything you told, still on my other computers can't reach the share, permission denied

RE: Raspberry Pi B+: setting up a home server with just a USB Harddrive

Former Member — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 15:45:58 GMT

Hi Garrett,

Nice article!

Does it handle two USB HDDs working simultaneously without problems?

My Raspi Model B tends do crash the connectivity some times and while I tried several of the “tricks” we can find in the net I was not able to solve it completely… I guess I’ll be adding one of those gadgets from yepkit ( https://www.yepkit.com/products/ykrud ) to be able to do a shutdown/turn-on by pushing a press button.

Do you use any other solution to perform the “soft” shutdown/restart without having to enter by ssh or connecting a keyboard to it every time?

Many Thanks!

RE: Raspberry Pi B+: setting up a home server with just a USB Harddrive

Former Member — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 20:37:50 GMT

Can get some help?

After i add the line "safe_mode_gpio=4" in the /boot/config,txt and i reboot then my pi b+ is stuck in a reboot loop.

RE: Raspberry Pi B+: setting up a home server with just a USB Harddrive

Former Member — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 09:34:45 GMT

Hi,

I appreciate a lot the job that you did here to document all the steps that you followed to setup RaspberryPI B+ as a NAS. I have also at home a Raspberry PI B+ with a 2A USB Power Supply but when I plug a Western Digital "My Passport Ultra" external USB disk 1GB like you did, I hear a tick sound coming from the external HD and the "red" color of the raspberrypi B+ disappears. Of course, I can't mount the external USB disk. Have you change something to your config/Setup to allow the external USB HD to be powered by the Raspberry which is not documented like this (https://projects.drogon.net/testing-setting-the-usb-current-limiter-on-the-raspberry-pi-b/ ? Which 2A Power Supply - Micro USB do you use ?

Remark : I can plug the WD USB disk on my MacBookPro without any issue.

Regards,

Charles

RE: Raspberry Pi B+: setting up a home server with just a USB Harddrive

hawkeyethehacker — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 06:35:28 GMT

I would like to make a correction, if I may..

The original Model B/A never included a VGA Port, but I think you meant a Composite port. However, (correct me if I am wrong) from what I have read the headphone jack is a combo between Composite and Audio.

RE: Raspberry Pi B+: setting up a home server with just a USB Harddrive

vish — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 09:57:08 GMT

Hi Garret,

That was a very educative and elaborate article. And it shows the real power of rPi B+. Congrats for coming up with such a nice article.

I would like to know a little more specifics about this project.

As you are using rPi as a file server, I assume it will be capable of streaming HD videos. From the pictures, I assume that you are using ethernet cable to connect rPi to network. So could you please tell us what is the maximum speed you are getting? Because, both ethernet and USB ports are communicating with broadcom chip using same uplink interface( uplink USB ), won't there be a performance degradation? I would like to know how much this is affecting the network speed.

It would be great if you could test( with WiFi also if possible ) this and post the results as I think it will be a very great comparison of B+'s power.

Thanks ahead,

vish