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Re:New 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $120 by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Thursday January 09, 2025 @10:57AM (#42646859)
"A passive RPi5 connected to a small 4TB external SSD is an almost industrial device you remember you have one because it becomes unresponsive to a power cut or something."

Is this booting from the SSD.

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Re:New 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $120 by bayindirh on Thursday January 09, 2025 @11:00AM (#42646892)
Nope, from the SD card. Quite fast though. SSD is just a storage volume.
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