Slow cards sabotaged my favorite projects My Raspberry Pi has powered everything from a Home Assistant hub to a personal Git server, yet microSD cards constantly mess with my uptime.

USB boot has been possible since the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B (v1.2), but it has only become really worthwhile with the Pi 4. Here is some information, tips, tricks and opinions explaining why and how.

Early versions of the Raspberry Pi could only boot from SD cards, but newer ones can boot from any USB device, like an external drive or USB stick. Here's how.

Now, the Raspberry Pi 5 has a lovely new PCIe port right on board, and [Jeff Geerling] has gone right ahead and slammed in an NVMe SSD as a boot drive.

Learn how to create a resilient Raspberry Pi cluster using Docker Swarm. This step-by-step guide covers initial setup, Portainer web interface, monitoring tools, and shared storage with GlusterFS.