17 Mar 2016, 12:58

I have replicated this issue using a Western Digital 1TB drive.  This is my experience. 1)  Sometimes it wouldn't look at the drive for the ROMs and reverted to the SD card. 2)  The drive became corrupted and couldn't be read by my PC (used a 'chkdsk' to resolve).  I think this was caused by Kodi to be honest. 3)  Kodi experienced serious issues with addons when using the drive 'before' installing addons.  It's best to do all the Kodi stuff on the SD card so it copies it to the drive. What I did like is the settings for Kodi and Recalbox are stored on the external drive so I can move it between Raspberry Pis  and have the same settings.   I haven't tried any other eternal hard drive, however, I am hoping to have one of those PiDrives and will test with that.  I feel it will work a lot better.