It used to be typical for every variation of Raspberry Pi to require booting from an SD or microSD card. It wasn't until the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B that the firmware received an update for booting ...

The firmware included with the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B version 1.2 introduced the possibility of booting from a USB device: before that, it was only possible to boot from an SD or microSD card. But ...

The Raspberry PI Foundation has released beta firmware and a bootloader to enable booting the Raspberry Pi 4 from a USB mass storage device. The new firmware and bootloader could be useful to ...

The big news about the Raspberry Pi 3 was built-in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, but it turns out there was another set of new tricks: new boot options. This feature’s still in beta, but over at the Raspberry ...

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 drive, ...

I like my Raspberry Pi media server, but I have concerns. I hate USB-SATA adapter cables on asthetic grounds, and physically managing a handful of SSDs is not optimal. So currently I'm using some ...

Western Digital has delivered a new hard-disk drive designed for the Raspberry Pi that uses a USB interface instead of the more conventional SATA interface. 1. The WD PiDrive kit includes a hydra ...