I ditched SD cards and started booting my Raspberry Pi from an SSD

Why I started booting my Raspberry Pi from an SSD instead of a SD card.

Apr 20, 2025 - 17:35
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I ditched SD cards and started booting my Raspberry Pi from an SSD

For years, I relied on microSD cards as the go-to storage for all my Raspberry Pi projects. They’re cheap, easy to swap, and get the job done — for a while. But the more I leaned on my Pi for actual services, not just hobby experiments, the more the cracks started to show. Performance lagged, and I hit the wall with corrupted cards way too often.