On 08/11/2019 08:38, Jan Panteltje wrote:
> 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?

USB drives are far faster, and more reliable.

If you haven't had an SD card fail, you really aren't using the Pi very
much.

---druck

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05