JMF11 wrote: > Hello, > > I have piCore on a Raspberry Pi. It seems that my external disk just > died. I have to buy a new one. Having the HDD go to sleep between using > it for music is important to save some lifetime and for noise concerns. > The experiments I made some years ago showed that not all disks have a > suitable sleep management mode possible to control from the RPi and > piCore. > > Would you advice powered or not powered ones (the one I had was powered > through the USB) ? > > Would you have references of suitable external HDD that would suit the > mission ? > > Thanks for your help. > > Best regards, > > JMF
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