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Not quite DIY prices, but companies like Balena make RPi Compute Module carrier boards w/ WiFi https://www.balena.io/fin https://www.balena.io/fin

24gttghh 8y ago
Well, at least it wont shit the bed (i.e. SD card corruption) on a power fluctuation? Is there something with similar hardware? Basically something with built-in, actual SSD flash. I love the size and low-power use of the RPi 3+, but I hate having it's SD card die on me...
- naikrovek 8y ago
  You can use flash drives over USB on RPi 2 and up. Boot from them and everything. Requires a tiny bit of setup.
  - wolrah 8y ago
    Requires a SD card containing an updated bootrom on Pi 2. Pi 3 has the update bootrom but needs a bit flipped in OTP to enable the feature. Pi 3B+ has network and USB booting enabled out of the box.
  - glenneroo 8y ago
    If you go this route, be forewarned: not all SSD enclosures work. Do a bit of research on Raspberry forums before making any purchases. Also, Pi 2/3/B+ sadly don't support USB 3.0 devices, so much for backwards compatibility. I bought a handful of cheap SSDs and USB 3.0 enclosures for this exact purpose, but still haven't got any of them to boot, even though I did research and supposedly bought several from Sabrent that should work. In retrospect I should have looked closer, Sabrent makes a bunch of very similarly named drives with slightly different specs, some of which apparently aren't compatible. I found a forum comment suggesting to try the enclosure with USB 2.0 cables, but that avenue has been fruitless thus far. I will probably have to order some USB 2.0 enclosures.
mark_l_watson 8y ago
Thanks to other commenters for the Balena and miniNodes links. I would be interested in something neatly packaged so it would look nice on my desk that had about a dozen computer boards with local networking set up.

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Not quite DIY prices, but companies like Balena make RPi Compute Module carrier boards w/ WiFi https://www.balena.io/fin https://www.balena.io/fin

by adamfeldman 8y ago

24gttghh 8y ago
Well, at least it wont shit the bed (i.e. SD card corruption) on a power fluctuation? Is there something with similar hardware? Basically something with built-in, actual SSD flash. I love the size and low-power use of the RPi 3+, but I hate having it's SD card die on me...
- naikrovek 8y ago
  You can use flash drives over USB on RPi 2 and up. Boot from them and everything. Requires a tiny bit of setup.
  - wolrah 8y ago
    Requires a SD card containing an updated bootrom on Pi 2. Pi 3 has the update bootrom but needs a bit flipped in OTP to enable the feature. Pi 3B+ has network and USB booting enabled out of the box.
  - glenneroo 8y ago
    If you go this route, be forewarned: not all SSD enclosures work. Do a bit of research on Raspberry forums before making any purchases. Also, Pi 2/3/B+ sadly don't support USB 3.0 devices, so much for backwards compatibility. I bought a handful of cheap SSDs and USB 3.0 enclosures for this exact purpose, but still haven't got any of them to boot, even though I did research and supposedly bought several from Sabrent that should work. In retrospect I should have looked closer, Sabrent makes a bunch of very similarly named drives with slightly different specs, some of which apparently aren't compatible. I found a forum comment suggesting to try the enclosure with USB 2.0 cables, but that avenue has been fruitless thus far. I will probably have to order some USB 2.0 enclosures.
mark_l_watson 8y ago
Thanks to other commenters for the Balena and miniNodes links. I would be interested in something neatly packaged so it would look nice on my desk that had about a dozen computer boards with local networking set up.