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I ditched SD cards and started booting my Raspberry Pi from an SSD

Swapping microSD for SSD on Raspberry Pi dramatically boosts speed and reliability, crucial for resource-intensive projects. Minimal components needed for the upgrade include Raspberry Pi 4/5, SSD, ...
Geeky Gadgets

Raspberry Pi 4 SSD performance analysis

If you are considering booting your new Raspberry Pi 4 from a solid state drive (SSD) you might be interested in performance testing carried out by Avram Piltch over at Toms Hardware. Providing ...
PC World

Give your Raspberry Pi blazing-fast SSD speed with this PCIe add-on

Although the Raspberry Pi 5 has a PCIe interface, it doesn’t have a slot for a PCIe SSD. There’s now a whole range of plug-in boards (HATs = Hardware Attached on Top) for retrofitting SSDs. They ...
ZDNet

New Raspberry Pi 4 update beta lets you boot from a USB mass storage device

The Raspberry PI Foundation has released beta firmware and a bootloader to enable booting the Raspberry Pi 4 from a USB mass storage device. The new firmware and bootloader could be useful to ...
Hackaday

Boot Your Pi Over USB

Historically, booting a Raspberry Pi required an SD card. However, if you follow [tynick’s] instructions, you can get a Pi 4 to boot from the USB port. Combine it with a small solid state disk drive, ...