Pi booting to HDD

Because the i/o throughput of the rpi SD card interface is worse than that of a USB attached hard drive. The read throughput is 50% better, not done a write test, but suspect SD card will performa even worse. Of course the best answer is a USB attached SSD. An other reason is for capacity. I have an RPI backup server with a 2Tb USB HDD for doing network backups of other stuff.

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Jim Jackson
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Hello druck!

Thursday January 10 2019 20:26, you wrote to me:

I get in from around 100MB to 500Mb of files a week with around 100- 300 polls per day.

I have now got my X830 card and case installed with a Pi3B+, 1Tb Samsung sata drive (SD card removed) and all running from a 19V 3.43A laptop adaptor (12 pounds).

Seems to be an issue with the fan that somethome is noisy - OK I can hear it so going to have to open the case up and check if it is screwed up correctly and if so put some small rubber washers between fan and case as touching the case top the noise does increase so guessing I have screwed up some where.

As I am writing this it is quiet though - so may be just needed to settle down..

I might - only might that is, consider making a few up in blocks of four for parallel processing but would need to use another Linux distro. Another option which is very unlikely using Pi's is to create a NAS but would prefer to find a similar computer that has USB 3 and/or sata connectors - may be eSata links.

I wil see how this set up runs first though :)

Vince

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Vince Coen

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