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Re:The Raspberry Pi can boot off NVMe SSDs now by systemvoltage on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @04:23PM (#26559948)
You can buy Intel NUC that does way more than wimpy RPI. Remember, RPI is not opensource which is how most people see them as - aka, a feel good company. It is as proprietary as Intel in the critical areas (processor, sdk and bunch of binary blobs).

RPI really doesn't belong in this type of a device you're describing.

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Re:The Raspberry Pi can boot off NVMe SSDs now by gkfasdfasdf on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @05:16PM (#26560513)
In my case being open source is a bonus - what I want is an on-premise modern linux environment that is economical to leave running 24/7, executes reasonably fast (including disk IO), and secure (auto update etc).
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Re:The Raspberry Pi can boot off NVMe SSDs now by sgtnoodle on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @03:10AM (#26564352)
I solved that by buying a passively cooled baytrail nano-ITX motherboard 5 or so years ago, and running Arch linux on it. At the time, pis were way slower at disk IO and encryption/hashing. Maybe the pi 4 is fast enough now, but I suspect the baytrail is still holding up favorably.
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Re:The Raspberry Pi can boot off NVMe SSDs now by mixmastamyk on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @04:28PM (#26559999)
What would?
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Re:The Raspberry Pi can boot off NVMe SSDs now by mPReDiToR on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @05:01PM (#26560352)
PinePhone.

https://pine64.org

New batch due soon.

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Re:The Raspberry Pi can boot off NVMe SSDs now by CrazyPyroLinux on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @05:50PM (#26560816)
Upvote for the interesting idea (fellow PinePhone user), but see my other comment - The RockPro64 (also from Pine64) is probably a better fit since it's a SBC with PCIe and thus the ability to plug in NVMe which the OP was asking for.
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