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They just need to make booting from a USB drive easy. Plug in a $20 SSD and stop worrying about reliability.
by copperx 8y ago
They just need to make booting from a USB drive easy. Plug in a $20 SSD and stop worrying about reliability.
- bigiain 8y agoThey're working on it: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/pi-3-booting-part-i-usb-mass-storage-boot/ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/pi-3-booting-part-i-usb-mas...
- kingosticks 8y agoIt's very easy on the 3B+, see https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/bootmodes/msd.md https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...
- philjohn 8y agoIt's pretty simple to do, as long as your USB drive is quick to come online. I have an RPi running on one of those tiny USB thumb drives that only protrude a few mm and it's running a data capture suite I wrote to monitor my internet connection which writes to a PostgreSQL database on the Pi.