That's a game changer.
It was not available at launch for the Pi 4, but was released in beta firmware in late September, and is currently part of the critical firmware update.
It works well, allowing separate boot images for each individual Pi on your network.
Isn't that a natural capability with PXE implemented at the server keyed off the MAC address?
> It works well, allowing separate boot images for each individual Pi on your network.
could you elaborate a bit more on that?
If you’re netbooting without any sdcard installed, I’d suggest disabling sd polling.
Something you've always been able to do is to keep just the boot partition on a small SD card and the root on whatever USB device you like. And yes, even with the supposedly best-performing SD cards, they easily become a problem both with performance and failure.
IITC that is still not officially supported (as a beta-test feature?), though many report it works as intended.
In the meantime if people don't want to use a beta feature the boot-from-SD-mount-root-elsewhere option works well too. You could also run it of an NFS share instead of a USB stick, though the performance metrics will differ.
Having just spent a bit north of $1k on a new CPU, RAM, and mobo for my desktop, I'm having a bit of sticker shock (in a good way) at how low these RPi prices are.
Doesn't look as flashy as the Flirc case, but cooling performance is supposed to be similar and you can access all the pins.
I have several pi in flirc cases, one is a pihole and one runs CI jobs (slowly) for PhotoStructure, and they don't get too hot even under sustained cpu load.
Flirc cases are great.
https://www.seeedstudio.com/ICE-Tower-CPU-Cooling-Fan-for-Ra...
I had a passive aluminum block heat spreader on it, and that works if you have good thermal bonding, unless you are really working it for a long duration. The problem is, if you hammer it long enough to throttle, that same mass takes a long time to cool back down.
The fan shim on a naked card just seems to work.
https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/aluminium-heatsink-case-f...
I find that its pretty difficult to use 4gb of ram on a pi practically, and its often bottlenecked by I/O. It might just be my SD card, but executing trivial commands sometimes takes forever and reminds me that I'm in a pi. I've heard ssds can improve speeds a lot, but you still cant boot off usb.