hpr2023 :: Setting up my Raspberry Pi 3

Summary: I bought a RPi 3, a case, a heatsink and an SSD and have set the Pi up as a server

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Setting up my Raspberry Pi 3

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I bought a Raspberry Pi 3 in March 2016, soon after it was released. I want to use it as a server since it's the fastest Pi that I own, so I have tried to set it up in the best way for that role.

In this episode I describe what I did in case you want to do something similar.

Follow this link to refer to the full notes for the details.

Links

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• Pimoroni Pibow 3: [https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/pibow-for-raspberry-pi-3](https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/pibow-for-raspberry-pi-3)

• Raspberry Pi Universal Power Supply: [https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/raspberry-pi-universal-power-supply](https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/raspberry-pi-universal-power-supply)

• Raspberry Pi 3 Heatsink: [https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/heatsink](https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/heatsink)

• SATA Hard Drive to USB Adapter: [https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/sata-hard-drive-to-usb-adapter](https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/sata-hard-drive-to-usb-adapter)

• SanDisk SSD PLUS 120 GB Sata III 2.5-inch Internal SSD: [https://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-PLUS-Sata-2-5-inch-Internal/dp/B00S9Q9UKS](https://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-PLUS-Sata-2-5-inch-Internal/dp/B00S9Q9UKS)

• Kingston Flash Memory Card 32 GB: [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingston-Class10-microSDHC-Include-Adapter/dp/B0162YQG2I](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingston-Class10-microSDHC-Include-Adapter/dp/B0162YQG2I)

• FLIRC Raspberry Pi 2/3 Case: [https://thepihut.com/products/flirc-raspberry-pi-3-b-case](https://thepihut.com/products/flirc-raspberry-pi-3-b-case)

• Adafruit tutorial "Using an External Drive as a Raspberry Pi Root Filesystem": [https://learn.adafruit.com/external-drive-as-raspberry-pi-root/overview](https://learn.adafruit.com/external-drive-as-raspberry-pi-root/overview)

• Article by paulv on the Raspberry Pi forums - "HOWTO: Move the filesystem to a USB stick/Drive": [https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=44177](https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=44177)

• Copy of adafruit-pi-externalroot-helper script: adafruit-pi-externalroot-helper.txt

• Transcript of what happened when I ran the script: session\_log.txt