I've connected a USB hard drive and installed Samba so I can also use the machine as a file server. The drive doesn't get used very much, so to stop the constant whirring sound, I used hdparm to set an auto spindown time for the disk, as described in the answer here -
I've connected a USB hard drive and installed Samba so I can also use the machine as a file server. The drive doesn't get used very much, so to stop the constant whirring sound, I used hdparm to set an auto spindown time for the disk, as described in the answer here -
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