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PiDrive Cable to connect HDD/SSD to RaspberryPi reduced to £5.84 @ WD
Got a new RaspberryPi 3+ ? Then I bet you have a collection of RPi 1 & 2 in your drawer gathering dust next to the HDDs displaced by new SSDs in your laptop.
You can now put 'em together without a cable spaghetti powered hub. You need just one decent power supply which it splits to both HDD and RPi and this cable connects a USB3 socketed (the one with a V groove) caddy for your old SATA drive.
Magic - it works. And with Berryboot or following this link you can have Raspbian running on a proper disk rather than the SD card.
instructables.com/id/…SB/
Throughput will still be limited bythe RPi USB2 port but for not much more than a fiver you can have a large capacity file server as you really don't need much poke to drive that.
These is reduced from £8.99 because WD Labs is closing down its RPi business - so be quick!
Mine is doing sterling service serving HD videos via a Lighttpd interface both when I'm home and abroad.
You may also want to check out the same product with a 3A power supply for only £8.45 (though the description says 2A) - a mistake I hope.
wdc.com/en-…tml
You can now put 'em together without a cable spaghetti powered hub. You need just one decent power supply which it splits to both HDD and RPi and this cable connects a USB3 socketed (the one with a V groove) caddy for your old SATA drive.
Magic - it works. And with Berryboot or following this link you can have Raspbian running on a proper disk rather than the SD card.
instructables.com/id/…SB/
Throughput will still be limited bythe RPi USB2 port but for not much more than a fiver you can have a large capacity file server as you really don't need much poke to drive that.
These is reduced from £8.99 because WD Labs is closing down its RPi business - so be quick!
Mine is doing sterling service serving HD videos via a Lighttpd interface both when I'm home and abroad.
You may also want to check out the same product with a 3A power supply for only £8.45 (though the description says 2A) - a mistake I hope.
wdc.com/en-…tml
Sure but:
gathering dust next to the HDDs displaced by new SSDs in your laptop You can now put 'em together without a cable spaghetti powered hub
Is misleading, no?
In what way? I just took two of my old SATA drives and stuck'em in a couple of caddies. Plugged this cable into them and the RPi power supply and the RPI itself et voila!
I use these caddies: amazon.co.uk/Bip…BKU but any modern USB HDD should just fit. Just doublecheck the socket (ie unplug the existing USB cable).
Am thinking of buying this also as the 1tb variant seems to have been out of stock for ages. Is it any good?