SmittyHalibutNov 26, 2022

Anyone here run their RPi4 off USB attached SSD? Is it really as straightforward as it looks?

My RPi based home server is getting more and more on it. It’s running a high-endurance SD card, but I’m still worried about it’s longevity, just from a write-fatigue standpoint.

I just bought a USB3 to M.2 SATA board: https://a.co/d/1mT4XRZ to run the system off of.

I’ve read the instructions, and it looks pretty straight forward to setup. Makes me worried: “this is too simple.” :-)

Show threadGraham McIntire W5ISP
@smitty I have one in my truck running from an external SSD for a mobile plex server. You have to boot from the sd card to change the boot setting and then it… just works and I’ve never had to touch it again.
Nov 26, 2022 at 2:03pmWeb