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.” :-)
General consensus from everyone who's responded to this so far is "...yeah... It just works..."
I love it when a plan comes together. Thanks everyone for your feedback! 🙂
Following up on this:
`raspi-config` let me pick USB first for booting. Did that before shutting anything down.
Copied disk: `dd if=[sd card] of=[ssd]` (On my laptop, not the Pi, so [sd card] wasn't mounted at the time.)
It JUST WORKED. Booted right up. I can now expand the root partition to take up the rest of the SSD.
That was *narrows eyes* a little TOO easy...
SmittyHalibut
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