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I'm considering the purchase of this external hard-drive to mount on my raspberry pi :

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src : https://www.amazon.co.uk/WD-Elements-Desktop-External-Drive/dp/B00JT8AJZ0/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1544379045&sr=8-3&keywords=western+digital

Apologies for such a basic question but there should be no issue using this drive with 'Raspbian Stretch with desktop' and sharing it's content using the raspberry pi over home network. Note : I'm planning to share the drive using the raspberry pi, not home router.

blue-sky
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Raspberry Pi's don't have USB 3.0 so it's going to default to USB 2.0 which is slower, but if you're sharing it over a wireless that's slow anyway, so yes it should work fine. You'll just have USB overhead plus wireless. Do you already know how to share the storage attached to the pi?

T. M.
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