>Vince Coen wrote:
>
>> I use a 3B+ sitting in a x830 box and card with a 1TB dasd  .
>> The drive has the Rasbian installed and it powers up, boots to the the USB
>> drive.
>
>Yes, but last I checked, the 4B was waiting for a firmware upgrade to
>let it boot from something *other* than an SD card
>
><https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/bootmodes/msd.
md>

I do not quite see the advantage of booting from USB harddisk.
I like the SDcard, if it ever fails (so far after years none have on any of my
raspies),
then I have backup images of the cards on a PC harddisk.
I make backup images of the cards after every major change.
If a card was to fail then just write a new card, put it in the Pi, works
again.
FYI I have dropped a harddisk, big data loss.
I have dropped several SDcards, no problem ;-)


Also booting from SDcard is faster?

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