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Strange. What Pi? I’ve had a spinning 2.5” HDD connected to a Pi 3B+ for a few years now.


RPI 4 -- the original revision. Whenever I ran it off the "official" power supply, I got disk errors. As soon as I moved over to a powered USB hub, I had no other issues. This was also with a keyboard and mouse plugged in, so maybe that had something to do with it.

I was also trying to run it as a NAS, so it had a decent amount of IO.

Maybe it could have been fixed with a better power supply, but switching over to the powered hub was easier to figure out.


maybe you're running a 4200rpm disk and the other person is running a 7200rpm disk.

faster-spinning-plates would draw more power, I guess.




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