Upgrade Raspberry Pi 4 with a NVMe boot drive

Re:Upgrade Raspberry Pi 4 with a NVMe boot drive by magicalhippo on Monday November 23, 2020 @02:35PM (#25190718)

I'm running several Pi's from SD card, some for years, and the only issue I had was with one that randomly crashed.

Measured the resistance of the "USB charging cable" I had used for it and found it was 1 Ohm! So when the Pi peaked at 1A current draw, the cable dropped 1V.

Swapped it out for something proper (<0.1 Ohm), and haven't had issues since.

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Re:Upgrade Raspberry Pi 4 with a NVMe boot drive by mmastrac on Monday November 23, 2020 @02:45PM (#25190831)

Same here. I even went as far as finding barrel-jack to USB connectors so I could wire thicker-gauge cables to the Pi.

In the end I gave up on trying to find low-ohm cables and just wired directly to the power supply. It's surprising how many cables just plain suck.

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