You also need a raspberry pi.
External storage for raspberry pi 3.
You can connect your external hard disk ssd or usb stick to any of the usb ports on the raspberry pi and mount the file system to access the data stored on it.
If we want to have content to share in the directory then we will need to look at adding in external storage to the rpi.
I would like to use this external drive not as a directory within the nc file system.
If you want to check for the current storage devices attached to your pi simply run the command.
First of all we need to list all the attached drives on our raspberry pi.
Raspberry pi 3 with external usb drive as nc basis.
Models 1 and 2 work just fine for this application but you will get a little.
Make sure you are using an external power supply for your usb hard drive as the raspberry pi usb port will probably not have enough power for it.
From a terminal window run the following command to see the disks connected to your pi.
By default your raspberry pi automatically mounts some of the popular file systems such as fat ntfs and hfs at the media pi hard drive label location.
Reboot the raspberry pi.
We have now set up the samba server and we have shared out the data directory on the raspberry pi.
For starters you need an external storage drive such as an hdd ssd or a flash drive.
Mar 30 2018 11 min read the raspberry pi isn t necessarily the best choice for creating a fast and efficient network attached storage nas as any external disk will be attached using usb 2 0.
An 8gb sd card does not leave a lot of space left over for the added extras of data storage.
I ve installed nc on the sdc of my raspberry pi 3.
Sudo blkid this reveals that we currently have our seagate expansion drive attached.
Mount external storage list the drive.
Sudo blkid create a mount folder.
Documentation configuration external storage external storage configuration.
Find the external drive you want to use for your files in my case it s a 128gb drive.
Check the partitions we now need to check the boot name of our seagate s partition.
Do not use a usb hub plug the hard drive directly into the raspberry pi.
This drive is available in nc as an external storage.
Now boot the raspberry pi with this sd card follow the on screen instructions and then open terminal.
Verify that your hard drive usb interface is using usb 2 0.