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.

Raspberry Pi Foundation is almost ready to deliver a fix for Raspberry Pi 4's lack of support for USB mass storage boot.

Overclocking the Raspberry Pi 5 can improve your CPU and GPU performance by about 15%. Installing an SSD for your Pi offers faster data transfer, boot times, and app loading.

The Raspberry Pi 5 is the first in the Raspberry Pi series to support PCI Express (PCIe), and if you use a board that converts PCIe to M.2, you can recognize an M.2 SSD or set the M.2 SSD as the ...

You can now boot the Raspberry Pi 3 from just about anything. The documentation for these new boot modes goes over the process of how to put an image on a USB thumb drive.

Historically, booting a Raspberry Pi required an SD card. However, if you follow [tynick’s] instructions, you can get a Pi 4 to boot from the USB port. Combine it with a small solid state disk ...

Put the two together and hook the unit up to Raspberry Pi 400, then copy across the operating system and you’re good to boot. We used a Transcend M.2 SSD 430S and Transcend TSCM42S USB enclosure.

If you are considering booting your new Raspberry Pi 4 from a solid state drive (SSD) you might be interested in performance testing carried out by Avram Piltch over at Toms Hardware. Providing ...