SSD

Amazing RPi 4 setup with 250GB SSD and 1.5TB storage space!

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Of course, this is not the best and most powerful setup but it is an interesting
solution. All these hard drives I have laying around so I decided to
use them and it is a great addition to Raspberry Pi 4.

So what we do have here:
The first component here is the case for Raspberry Pi 4, Argon One. Very well design aluminum case with controlled fan for cooling and power on/off button. The fan has a little bit annoying sound. This housing is excellent for overclocking Raspberry Pi 4, I’m running all day on 2 GHz without any problem.
The second piece of the puzzle is a USB 3.0 hard drive docking station. Sabrent USB
3.0 4 Bay 2.5″ Hard Drive/SSD Docking Station with Fan. This is excellent for the system drive and for storage. In my system, I’m having 250 GB SSD for
system and programs and three 500 GB hard drives for storage.
I’m pretty happy with this setup, fast boot over SSD and enough space for
storage.
Thanks for visiting!
Till the next time.

Raspberry Pi 4 Native USB Boot

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It has finally arrived, unfortunately in beta but it still works, RPi 4 Native USB Boot. Say goodby to micro SD. I have been using RPi 4 for about four months or a little more, as a personal computer and I am mostly satisfied. Settings “boot” partition on micro SD card and “root” partition on
SD disk, works without any problems. But recently it has been possible to set up RPi 4 to boot directly from a USB drive!
My RPi 4 Setup (RPi 4, 4GB, Samsung SSD 250GB, USB to S-ATA adapter, sertronic RPI4-ARC-FA case with cooler)

First I found a video on Youtube and tried to make it and I failed. Then an article came out on the portal, so I followed the instructions and again I failed. 
Opsss! What is happening? 
I used NOOBS for OS instead of Raspbian (oooo noooo). So I came to the conclusion that Native USB Boot does not work on NOOBS.
The following is a step-by-step guide on how to set up RPi 4 for Native USB Boot, or to Boot without micro SD.
So let’s get started:
  1. make a fresh copy of micro SD with Raspbian OS (Raspbian Imager, works on Windows, Linux and macOS)
  2. insert micro SD into RPi4 and power on
  3. install OS
  4. update OS:
    • sudo apt update
    • sudo apt full-upgrade
    • sudo rpi-update
  5. reboot RPi
  6. edit rpi-eeprom-update:
    • sudo nano /etc/default/rpi-eeprom-update
    • FIRMWARE_RELEASE_STATUS value from “critical” to “beta”
  7. update firmware:
    • sudo rpi-eeprom-update -d -f /lib/firmware/raspberrypi/bootloader/beta/pieeprom-2020-05-15.bin
  8. reboot RPi
  9. check firmware version:
    • vcgencmd bootloader_version
  10. clone micro SD to USB Drive (SD Card Copier)
  11. shutdown RPi
  12. remove micro SD
  13. power on RPi
And that should be it, now we have an RPi with an SSD that is significantly faster than a micro SD. Lots of fun and I hope this step by step guide is helpful.
Until next time, Thanks for visiting!