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Re:I'm booting my Raspberry Pi 4 from a USB SSD by jbverschoor on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @06:32AM (#23475616)
Eventually sounds like far far away In reality, they really have short lifespan, are slow, and halt the system

Therefore I wouldn’t recommend the rpi anymore.

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Re:I'm booting my Raspberry Pi 4 from a USB SSD by geerlingguy on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @12:11PM (#23478727)
The whole point of my post is to suggest that it's now easy (soon even easier when it's not a beta feature) to run everything from a durable external SSD. You don't even need a microSD card inserted anymore.

Ideally the next Pi gets some interface that allows more integrated storage, like eMMC or NVMe, but even with USB the speed and durability justifies annoying cabling situations.

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Re:I'm booting my Raspberry Pi 4 from a USB SSD by schwartzworld on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @11:59AM (#23478573)
the lifespan is mostly due to writes, right? so couldn't you just boot from an SD card but save your actual data on an external drive?
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Re:I'm booting my Raspberry Pi 4 from a USB SSD by johntash on Thursday June 11, 2020 @01:54AM (#23485587)
Yes, I have several pis that boot from an sd card and then all of the file systems get mounted over NFS. The sd card only needs to be read from once every few weeks/months when it boots.

Even if it does wear out, storing all the data on NFS (or a usb drive) makes it a lot less worrying.

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