>"The results really speak for themselves. For sequential operations, using a USB SSD is 3-4x faster than using a microSD card. And for random access, random reads are a bit faster, but writes are about 6x faster!"
I'm booting my Raspberry Pi 4 from a USB SSD
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Re: I'm booting my Raspberry Pi 4 from a USB SSD
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Couple more things to remember: - don't use swap - make sure you have noatime on all your filesystems - identify other folders with frequently changing data (/tmp, $HOME/tmp, etc.) and also make sure you keep them in memory - you can use NFS for many of these things if that is possible
Something I never understand: Why is this not the default? So many people struggle with the same stuff over and over again, yet, there's no mechanism in Linux distros to package default settings for a use case.
You can solve most of these problems by not using an under powered or bad power supply. From what I have seen most raspberry pi users love to just take a random charger and plug it into their raspberry pi. Micro usb has been known to be totally inadequate as a power delivery mechanism for SBCs and on the armbian forums people are going to complain if you show them an SBC with micro usb. USB C is a lot better but you are still better off with the official raspberry pi power supply.
Re: I'm booting my Raspberry Pi 4 from a USB SSD
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Networked storage but that won't be as fast as native drives.
I tend to disagree. It will depend on the network and the storage but it is not uncommon for network storage to actually be faster than local flash card. At home I have couple of older laptops my kids use for various things. I have installed linux on them and configured to boot over wifi and it actually sped up these machines significantly. I would not advise for everybody to do this, though. The setup is complex (th…
It's a gigabit network adapter. Ignoring the extra CPU overhead, latency, etc. that alone limits storage to less than SATA 1 speeds. UASP drives on the USB 3 port can push near SATA 3 speeds with lower latency and less CPU overhead.