Raspberry Pi hard drive

[Grundgütiger]

I just found a message about a hard drive from Western Digital, specially designed for the Raspberry Pi. It's called the PiDrive and comes in two versions. A small one with 314GB: and a bigger one with 1TB: . Might be a good solution for storing music in connection with Runeaudio.

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[PeteB]

[popov]

hi

I use an flash dd ... More expensive ..But less noise, and very fast for read and a 2A power is suffisant
The idea of and less expensive disk is interessant.... is was just hoping a heat with a disk not using this .... usb

Regards

[Grundgütiger]

I use just an average external 2,5" 1TB hard drive, USB powered. If you change the config.txt file of the Linux system the Raspberry Pi is able to power the hard drive - if your Raspberry's power supply is strong enough. But maybe the PiDrive somehow has some Raspberry Pi goodies.

[PeteB]

[Grundgütiger]

You need a power supply with at least 2A for USB-powering an external hard drive via the Pi. Works fine here. The Raspberry Pi Foundation suggestes a 2.5A power supply for the new Pi 3 if you want to power a hard drive via the USB bus.

[PeteB]

[Grundgütiger]

Of course, but the Pi still is an experimental computer to give young people an understanding of computers. It's not meant to be an electricity highly stabilized technical piece of hardware. I had a bunch of Cyrus and Naim equipment with extra power supplies. Their huge ring transformators are gorgeous. But last year I switched to digital music files played with a Raspberry Pi, hardware for only 100 Dollars. I know it's not the holy grail of HiFi equipment, but I love it and don't plan to switch back.

[Grundgütiger]

Maybe this is a great market niche you could fill - you seem to have the technical understanding to come out with a highly sophisticated power supply for the Pi.

[PeteB]