Hello all,

Thanks for the great feedback !

I have an old 40GiG 5400RPM Disk from circa 2002 lying around (and it's mostly good). Will simply use it. My main use is a LAMP setup.

Thanks again.

I was just wondering... Would it be any good to connect a good-old 5400 RPM 3.5" HDD to a through a USB External Case; mount the entire root FS (except the FAT16 Bootloader; since pi can only book from SD ) on that ... ? In terms of performance it would most likely be much slower than SD or a "thumb...

Thanks for the link; very illuminating; CF, SD, ... all NAND Based Storage technology is simply not very reliable.

Hello,

I am currently watching that "interesting" video on Youtube ...

Will get back after that.

Hello All, "Namaste". I just went through this post at http://c-mobberley.com/wordpress/2013/04/13/moving-raspberry-pi-root-folders-from-sd-card-to-usb-hdd/ and also a similar howto at http://elinux.org/Transfer_system_disk_from_SD_card_to_hard_disk basically the earlier post mentions that USB "Thum...

Thank you for the information.

Why the interest? I recently purchased a similar device from e-bay advertised as 100% compatible with Nexus (??) and Raspberry Pi only to find that ebay was full of scams (?) a week ago on elinux.com and that such boards could burn Pi's Diode and plausibly even cause the whole board to wreck. Given...

For what it is worth I have measured the current consumption of the "Neewer Black HDMI Input To VGA Adapter Converter" to be 400mA. There are two 800mA switch mode power supply chips in the Converter. Therefore it is likely to damage the diode on the Raspberry Pi board. To fix this I have added a s...