So I purchased a rack mount that came with a SATA SSD PCB. I want to get away from using the micro SD card and I heard SSDs compliment the pi well but I’m not sure how to go about doing it, do I just flash the ssd like I would a micro SD? If anyone could please give me some advice on the best way to do this I’d be grateful!

  • fakemanhk@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    TRIM on Pi is possible if the USB controller supports it. Even without TRIM the USB SSD is ALWAYS having longer life and running a lot faster than SD card, and not to mention sometimes we need much bigger storage only (e.g. previously I used my Pi4B as torrent client alongside with PiHole/UPS management, plugging a SSD to it just fits the purpose)

    And not everyone is buying Pi at high price, for example I have 3 x Pi4B purchased long time ago which were cheap.