Setting up my Raspberry Pi 3

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.

Refer to the full notes for the details: http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr2023/full_shownotes.html

Links

Pimoroni Pibow 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

Raspberry Pi 3 Heatsink: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/heatsink

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: http://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-PLUS-Sata-2-5-inch-Internal/dp/B00S9Q9UKS

Kingston Flash Memory Card 32 GB: http://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

Adafruit tutorial "Using an External Drive as a Raspberry Pi Root Filesystem": 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

Copy of adafruit-pi-externalroot-helper script: http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr2023/adafruit-pi-externalroot-helper.txt

Transcript of what happened when I ran the script: http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr2023/session_log.txt