2022-Nov-11, Friday

I had recently setup a Plex server on a Raspberry Pi 4 (Model B - 4GB RAM). It was working well, but the disparity in the weight of the small Pi, and that of the SSD drive, not to mention the surprisingly stiff cables, meant it would go flying all over the place. So when I saw the cool case in the Pi SSD Media Server tutorial I knew I was going to give it a go.

Well reader, this is a great project, I love the results, but straight up, I haven't encountered this many 'mistakes'/omissions in an Adafruit tutorial before. Never fear, for here is my 'study' guide, born of my suffering, so you don't have to.

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Fully assembled case, mainly black with green side panels and handle, showing the display, displaying the following details of the Raspberry Pi inside; plexpi. IP: 192.168.0.158. CPU: 35.0'C. Mem: 113/3787 MB 2.98%.

Pi case, build complete, powered up and display displaying info
Photo by [personal profile] chebe