I have been hanging a 5TB moble HDD off my RPi4 2GB for over 4 years now running SMB (RPi OS). I added a 12TB 3.5 USB drive about 3 years ago. No issues. I set the spin-down time in the HDD's firmware to be 2 hours to avoid excessive spin-up-down cycles. They are on 24/7 and I reboot the RPi about once every couple of months. My RPi still uses a microSD for the OS. I swapped the RPi4 for a RPi5 4GB to see if performance would improve but I did not see any change in transfer speeds.
Statistics: Posted by chipace — Fri Aug 02, 2024 2:43 pm