Raspberry Pi 5 - Hackdot

Re:Raspberry Pi 5 by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday September 28, 2023 @03:41AM (#37686535)

FWIW, I boot my Pis almost exclusively from USB. Not that that's... great in terms of speed or reliability, but it's something.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 5 by rebelpixel on Thursday September 28, 2023 @06:46AM (#37687755)

This. I've had an always-on Pi 3 since 2016 and after countless random corruption issues from various micro SD cards, I moved to booting them from old USB2 flash drives, first an 8gb then an 16gb one. Never had an issue with them and they've been solid. I only had to mess with the flash drives when I had to do an OS upgrade.

Also, those micro SD cards were always fine after a format/partition and I can still use them in other devices just fine. I've read before that the Pi has a tendency to corrupt micro SD cards through its reader, and IIRC it's related to power issues.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 5 by heresie-dabord on Thursday September 28, 2023 @07:06AM (#37687912)

I have a Pi 4 and Pi 400 and boot them from NVMe (via USB).

Combined with a portable LCD, it's a low-power dev workstation on a battery. ^_^

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Re:Raspberry Pi 5 by op00to on Friday September 29, 2023 @07:44AM (#37702330)

For my Pis that change, I try to boot form USB. For Pis that don't change, I just make their / immutable.

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