Has anyone out there gotten their raspberry pi3 to run off a ssd?. I have been looking into the pidrive boards. I also have a USB to ssd adapter but not sure if I can move a running system to this or even how to do it. Anyone got any tips or tutorials?

All you need is in here: [image] RPi3 USB Boot is now available (BETA) Server Hi guys, as there are ongoing discussions about the reliability of SD cards with RPi also in this forum, some might be happy to read this: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/pi-3-boo…

Awesome! Thanks for the tip. I searched the forums but hadnt seen that.What type of USB SSD hdd are you using? This is the usb to sata adapter that came with my ssd.. [image] [image]

I am trying to understand: Does a SSD has any kind of advantages over an USB stick? Sure, a SSD in general is faster, but as it is connected via USB and as the RPi3 only has USB2.0, does this make ANY difference?

From my understanding a ssd can handle more reads and writes that a SD card or a usb flash drive. There are some special usb sticks that were designed for high read writes for microsofts windows to go product which is a full blown bootable windows enterprise image.

[image] antasp3136: What type of USB SSD hdd are you using? http://www.intenso.de/produkte.php?kategorie=34&&produkt=1449570533

[image] jaydee73: Does a SSD has any kind of advantages over an USB stick? There are many discussions on the web, one of the best summary I could find is this one: [harrymc] What's the technical difference between a flash drive and an SSD? ssd, usb-flash-drive, sto…

In addition to what has already been said, in endurance tests these SSD drives tend to last over 100TB of writes before dying. The typical user writes about 1 TB in a year so an SSD will last roughly 100 years for a typical user. OH, even with trace logging and loads of persistence, is not going to …

I’m running openhabian I haven’t tried to move this to a ssd yet. Has anyone moved their openhabian install? Anything specific to that image that is different from Raspbian?

Hi, I’m also running openhabian on my PI2 from an external SSD after trashing a SD-card. I’m using this ORICO external case with an old Samsung 64GB SSD. The good thing is that I don’t need an external powersupply, the ssd is running fine with usb-power from the PI. Dont forget to set max_usb_cur…

Note the difference: RPi2 can be configured to boot from sd card and have the rest of the operating system running from a ssd. RPi3 can be configured to boot from usb ssd without the need of a sd card at all (although its beta its working great).

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@rikoshak: as suggested, I’ve done a short step by step tutorial for the Pi2 here