PiDrive

Pithagoros

LED is probably intended to be visible via a light guide when the drive is in a case/housing.

W. H. Heydt

Close examination shows that the LED is surface mount device (no surprise there) at the edge of the PCB. Looks like I can put tape *over*, but not *on* it, at least until I get the cases (which, though ordered on 29 March, as of April 1, have not shipped). Fortunately, when the *do* ship, they won't...

Heater

Sounds to me like your monitor has some other issue than the LED burning out. I agree, such an indicator LED need not be massively bright and not highly directional, being able to see it from wide viewing angles should be a design consideration From your description it sounds like this drive is desi...

stderr

Just stick some tape or something over it. Job done. If it then burns out that is a design failure, it's obviously consuming way to much power, send it back for replacement. Now the monitor with the *bright* blue LED that burnt out won't shut off correctly. I don't know if there's any connection bu...

Heater

Just stick some tape or something over it. Job done. If it then burns out that is a design failure, it's obviously consuming way to much power, send it back for replacement. Personally I like such LEDs on hard drives. I have not seen one since the little green SMD LED on my old Quantum Big Foot. 1GB...

stderr

. I'm really glad you like what you see so far and I'm sorry to hear about the LED light. Hopefully you don't find it as bothersome as now when you get the case. What about folks who aren't going to put it into a case? Some people believe in plank computing, that is putting your computer laying out...

W. H. Heydt

As I understand it, this testing was done with the USB2 cable from the Pi as the only connection to the PiDrive, that is, the PiDrive is powered through the Pi without a powered USB port expander or with a Y cable. Is this correct? Do you have other peripherals (keyboard, ...

6by9

2. Already addressed, but let me add a way to extend the amount of video that could be captured. My initial tests with the WD PiDrive give a write speed over 35MB/s, which would be plenty fast enough to handle 1080p30, and with a capacity of 314GB, you could record a fair amount of it. ...

W. H. Heydt

... compatibility. 2. Already addressed, but let me add a way to extend the amount of video that could be captured. My initial tests with the WD PiDrive give a write speed over 35MB/s, which would be plenty fast enough to handle 1080p30, and with a capacity of 314GB, you could record a fair amount ...

MarkTF

As I understand it, this testing was done with the USB2 cable from the Pi as the only connection to the PiDrive, that is, the PiDrive is powered through the Pi without a powered USB port expander or with a Y cable. Is this correct? Do you have other peripherals (keyboard, mouse, ...

Boogieman_WD

Hey there, W. H. Heydt. Congrats on the new drive. I'm really glad you like what you see so far and I'm sorry to hear about the LED light. Hopefully you don't find it as bothersome as now when you get the case. Thanks for the extensive feedback. I'll keep an eye on the thread so let me know if anyth...

W. H. Heydt

PiDrive connected to a Pi3B through USB2 port. Data rates are a touch high because they don't reflect the time to complete writes (sync), but they're very cloas, as the sync times don't add more than 1 or 2 seconds (out of ...

W. H. Heydt

... value on a CM with an attached SATA-III SSD as well as on a USB stick attached to a Pi2B. In a few days I'll have numbers for a Pi3B with a WD PiDrive for comparison, but I'm betting the figures will be very similar.) Also bear in mind that the swap drive you're looking at and your 3TB drive ...

fanoush

... AC adapter costs the same 8.99 EUR http://store.wdc.com/store?Action=DisplayProductSearchResultsPage&SiteID=wdeu&CallingPageID=HomePage&keywords=pidrive&Go.x=0&Go.y=0 I wouldn't buy the cable but with the adapter it is reasonable. Edit: when clicking the link in new window it goes tu UK version ...

W. H. Heydt

Ordered a pidrive on 3/15. Didn't get a shipping confirmation. Called on 3/24, Western Digital Support said they would call back; didn't. Called yesterday and asked two people for any kind of e-mail. Today received this: "Due ...

W. H. Heydt

... use for boards like the Roseapple Pi which has a USB3 port and will be able to get a lot more performance out of it. I will be benchmarking the PiDrive when I get it, but I'm not expecting particularly great performance since it will be running on the USB2 bus. I've already tested the WD SATA ...

W. H. Heydt

Ordered a pidrive on 3/15. Didn't get a shipping confirmation. Called on 3/24, Western Digital Support said they would call back; didn't. Called yesterday and asked two people for any kind of e-mail. Today received this: "Due ...

energyi

Ordered a pidrive on 3/15. Didn't get a shipping confirmation. Called on 3/24, Western Digital Support said they would call back; didn't. Called yesterday and asked two people for any kind of e-mail. Today received this: "Due to ...

DirkS

My last set of questions are has anyone tried the new hard drive for the pi 3. https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/meet-314gb-pidrive/ How exactly does this connect to the Pi and does it need its own power cable? I have yet to see a clear answer on this with other Google searches. Will ...

klricks

..........My last set of questions are has anyone tried the new hard drive for the pi 3. https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/meet-314gb-pidrive/ How exactly does this connect to the Pi and does it need its own power cable? I have yet to see a clear answer on this with other Google searches. ...

Mansome

... Linux Kodi install. My last set of questions are has anyone tried the new hard drive for the pi 3. https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/meet-314gb-pidrive/ How exactly does this connect to the Pi and does it need its own power cable? I have yet to see a clear answer on this with other Google searches. ...

dwcsjca

Hi, below is a Dropbox link to 3D models of a cover for the WD PiDrive enclosure (a.k.a. "Pisces" enclosure). There are also a couple of screenshots (.png) showing the design. There's a rectangular tab on the "tail" of the part that is just for 3D printing ...

rboerner

Many thanks to dwcsjca for sharing such great detail about the 314 drive. I purchased the 1TB PiDrive just the other day as the 314 was out of stock, but after seeing that I should be able to power the 314 via the Pi itself I went ahead and placed another order. Should ...

darkbibble

if you get a pidrive (on sale at £28 atm) and the berryboot bootmanager you can install multiple OS's on one drive.

not sure if you can multi boot on a larger sd card

tweak42

... design. Sadly there's a lack of production Pi cases incorporating a hard drive, I wish there were more like these. I just got the Western Digital PiDrive kit and enclosure based on http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:993481 It's missing a top lid (+for cooling a Pi 3) , but it keeps the cables manageable ...

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