External Drive for the Raspberry Pi

The external USB storage drive is the only thing that gives me bother with the pi, originally I had an external IDE hard drive in my external case. It started out working fine and I'm sure it did so the whole time. The Raspberry Pi seemed to lose connection to the drive, it messed with Torrents and NZB's, SabNZBD and Transmission daemon were and still are the only extra packages I have installed of course along with their dependencies.

If you had both running you needed to download at about 250KB/s, more,  the RPI seemed to bog down the higher speed you downloaded at. It's still a damn handy always on Torrent client and NZB downloader that is on 24/7, 365 days a year.

I decided to rearrange my drives, I purchased two 2.5 hard drive enclosures and one 2.5 WD 300GB hard drive disk. I have a decent four port hub that should power it no problems, hopefully... So far so good, the new disk is working admirably, there was a few hiccups on the whole install process, but lots of searching on Google and forums had me finding the answers no worries.

I also thought it about time I bought a USB SATA dock used for inserting sata hard drives so they can be plugged in to a USB port on your computer, no screws just plug in a drive and go, start accessing your hard drive contents right away! The two external hard drive enclosures I bought are nice and slim and just small in general, dinky little cases really but will do their intended job just fine.

Raspberry Pi - Installing Sabnzbd and Transmission

I have just one unit, I decided to get the Pi to see if it could run Torrents and Usenet on the one box, a low energy alternative to running a desktop pc 24/7. I have managed to have a very workable solution, for Torrents, I use Transmission, for Usenet, I use Sabnzbd, I am using the Raspbian OS for the Raspberry Pi. I used a combination of CLI and Gui on the Desktop to configure settings etc.

I did reinstall the Operating System once so far, I'm always fiddling with things so it was all my own fault. For the latest install I used the new Noobs Installer, not a bad way to go for what I needed, it all worked perfectly. I will list the tutorials that helped me to install Sabnzbd and TransmissionBT. It's all been a great success, I might try XBMC on a Pi next...

Transmission installed on the Pi

I just found a decent tutorial on the web for installing Transmission, the following link served me well, of course you may need to tweak a few things, change a few paths etc.

Click the link below for a "how to" for installing Transmission Daemon on the Raspberry Pi

How to Install Transmission on Pi

Sabnzbd Installed on the Pi

Once again I searched for the appropriate "How to" online for installing Sabnzbd on the Raspberry Pi and once again you may need to tweak and adjut things for your install.

Click the link below for a "how to" for installing Sabnzbd on the Raspberry Pi

How to Install Sabnzbd on Pi

I will also list information on other needed software etc. I followed the tutorials above to set everything up, I also don't run the same settings on the Raspberry Pi as I would on a Desktop PC, I try not to stress the little Pi out too much.