The firmware included with the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B version 1.2 introduced the possibility of booting from a USB device: before that, it was only possible to boot from an SD or microSD card. But ...

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 ...

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Discover the drawbacks of booting Raspberry Pi from SD cards and explore faster, more reliable alternatives for improved performance and longevity.

This is the 256GB model of the Raspberry Pi SSD. When I peeled off the sticker, a memory chip appeared. The printing on the surface of the memory chip looks like this. Various certification marks are ...

The Raspberry Pi is a great computer, even if it doesn’t have SATA. For those of us who have lost a few SD cards to the inevitable corruption that comes from not shutting a Pi down properly, here’s ...

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, ...

The rest of the hardware matches the Pi 500 (Upton told us that the PCB and silicon stepping were identical). This means a ...

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 ...

The computer is currently available to purchase from the usual suspects like CanaKit and Micro Center, and generally starts ...