On 03/07/2019 09:25, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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> I only need about 40GB for my SSD to boot from. And store its programs.
>
> Data?  All on a networked server running big spinning rust. The switch
> is only 100Mbps so whats the pont of making that disk SSD?
>
>
> Anyway its well fast enough.

Quite a few devices on my network run at gigabit speeds, as does the
RPi-4B.  Two reasons for going SSD: speed now a full-speed USB 3 port is
available, better life than an SD card (larger capacity, designed for
more write cycles [perhaps]).

The more I think about it, having the SSD as the system boot device
might be a good idea as well.  Seems like that should be easy at least
with the 3B+, and perhaps therefore the 4B.


https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/95778/boot-from-usb-connected-s
sd

I don't like the idea of the one-time programming required for earlier
models, though.

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Cheers,
David
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