Will move to a 128GB drive for a graphics project. Check out this video for simplified instructions. thanks in advance :), In reply to Hi Jeff, thanks for the… by Bobby, Jeff, I am having a strange problem with USB booting. This is such a helpful post. We are now ready to edit the /etc/fstab file to point to our updated drive. If you need to restore your backup plug the SD card into a computer/device and replace cmdline.txt with cmdline.txt.bak that we made above. Do you have an extra SD card you can use? Steckt dann die SSD Disk über den USB zu SATA Adapter an euren Raspberry Pi und steckt ihn an dem Strom, Bildschrim, Tastatur. At first I had issues, thought maybe the Pi was not powerful enough to power the enclosure being it has RGB Leds and who knows what else on board. Raspberry Pi 4; 2-5 Externe Festplatte / SSD (alternativ: großer USB-Stick) Try this to see if your device supports trim: $ sudo hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep TRIM * Data Set Management TRIM supported (limit 8 blocks), This got it working: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=285806#p1771345, I ran sudo hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep TRIM and got: * Data Set Management TRIM supported (limit 8 blocks), I created the file /etc/udev/rules.d/01-unmap-trim.rules and added the line: ACTION==”add|change”, ATTRS{idVendor}==”174c”, ATTRS{idProduct}==”55aa”, SUBSYSTEM==”scsi_disk”, ATTR{provisioning_mode}=”unmap”, I then reboot the pi and ran: sudo fstrim -v / Which first resulted in: fstrim: /: FITRIM ioctl failed: Remote I/O error Running it again results in: fstrim: /: the discard operation is not supported. I just ordered an SSD and USB to M.2 enclosure, will load up Ubuntu Mate 20.10 which supports USB boot and see how much improvement I get. Did you experience this issue? I bought 5 “AliExpress Generic 2.5″ SATA to USB 3.0 “New USB 3.0 To 2.5in SATA 7+15Pin Hard Drive Adapter”* and had problems with every single one of them. If getting an off-brand, make sure it will be compatible with raspberry pi (googlable). BalenaEtcher formats the SDCard with the Raspberry OS Image. thanks for your guide is very simple and useful! to my RB. My trim also wasn’t setup for an ASMedia 174c:55aa device. Imager. Once the drive was re-formatted and the image burned, it booted with no modification. Mise à jour du firmware du Rasberry Pi 4. Boot the Pi 4B using this SD card. I was going to say just this. After two days of pulling out what little hair I had left, I found this post and followed the procedures in this forum to fix this. I've got an Orico with USAP designed to work with Linux. Der erste Startdauert etwas länger da das Dateisystem erweitert wird, hiernach solltet ihr aber wie gewohnt mit eurem Raspberry Pi arbeiten können. Some googling suggest UASP should be better performance, but does anyone know if the UASP variant works on the Pi4? Press enter to continue.]. But somewhere I read, that it works with the USB2.0 port of the Rapsberry Pi 4. Like I said, I'm very new to this. Can I technically redo this using your steps or would it be bad for my Raspberry pi? Reboot the Raspberry Pi 4. Wow, great tip Seb! There are a lot of steps to follow to set everything up properly. I’ve wasted so many hours thinking I had messed up the installation and all along it was Sata/USB adaptor incompatibility. Shucks! Thanks a ton for posting the resolution! Bought the adapter listed here: https://www.ebuyer.com/858165-2-5-hdd-enclosure-usb-3-0-silver-en-2526 and although it appears to work OK with the root fs on the SD card my Pi 4 would not boot when I attempted to move the root fs to an SSD inside this enclosure.. until I read about usb quirks and added usb-storage.quirks=152d:0578:u to cmdline.txt, Hi James, Can you help me? That’s fantastic that there was upgraded firmware available! Do you… by Abin444. Type: We are going to add the following entry into the very front of cmdline.txt: In place of the X’s above you will put in your adapter’s ID that we got before. 10. Update: I now have a video that goes along with this blog post: First, I flashed a 32GB SanDisk Extreme Pro microSD card with the latest 64-bit beta release of the Raspberry Pi OS. After making the change my /etc/fstab file looks like this: Press Ctrl+X to tell nano to save our changes. Even hovering the icons in the top left takes several seconds. Hi James, Thanks for your response, I noticed that it was working in usb 2.0 ports, but not 3.0, so I resolved with upgrading adapter’s firmware! Extremely cheap adapter from AliExpress — MADATALIEXPRESS bought 5 of them and none worked, PPCM had one working, very unreliable and slow when it does work, not recommended even if you get lucky. In reply to Hi To edit the file type: Your current file will look similar to this (PARTUUID varies based on your Raspbian image version): We want to change the root ( / ) partition (PARTUUID ending with -02) to load our SSD’s PARTUUID instead of the SD card. Open up /boot/cmdline.txt using nano or your favorite text editor: We are going to change the root=PARTUUID section to point to our new d34db33f PARTUUID like the following: Make the change and double check the line is what it should be,then press Ctrl+X to save our changes. d34d and b33f are variations of old crash/bluescreen codes that have been used by programmers for a long time. But thanks for posting back an update. NOTE: You could break your Pi's firmware and render it inoperable if you do something wrong here. After signing in we can verify that the SSD is being used like this: Verify that partition has switched over as shown below to /dev/sda2 (SSD) instead of /dev/mmcblk0p2 (SD card). Try with powersave governor first, or set limits to CPU clock. The Raspberry Pi 4* is finally here and has a lot of exciting changes. The changes won’t be written to disk. My second thought to try would be to rearrange which USB ports you’re using. In reply to Thanks for this post and the… by Matt. On USB3 the green led on the Pi flashes continuously and no booting. It’s still very early in the release of the Pi 4 so we still have a lot to learn about which adapters work / don’t work. The results really speak for themselves. I'm seeing an issue after reboots which I'm still looking into. Don’t do an apt-get upgrade/dist-upgrade or any additional configuration yet. Hi Jeff! It’s beautiful. It worked fine. I'm going to do the same thing soon with my Pi 4, would you know if this is also possible with the 20.04 Ubuntu image? Make sure you fully update your firmware first. 8. when the copy is done, shut down the Raspberry and take out the SD card, start the Raspberry pi back up and it should boot with the SSD. In reply to Hi Jeff, Mark. If everything went well then type “w” and press enter. You can use any numbers or letters for the label as long as they are hexadecimal letters, so letters A-F. Bisherige. It's not ideal, but you can always boot Ubuntu from the SD card and then have the root filesystem run from the SSD like we did before USB boot was a thing. The CSL SL adapter is confirmed to be working by Krikitt in the comments. Thank you. Available in both Europe and US. After asking in the #ubuntu IRC, it seems that the U-boot component does not support MSD boot yet, so I guess it'll take a while til it's possible. Applications run so much faster! If everything is OK you should very soon enjoy your Raspberry Pi 4 USB boot with faster speeds and increased reliability. The spare 128GB drive will be much better suited for a Raspberry Pi 4 and Argon ONE M.2 combo. How to successful move from microSD card to SSD on Raspberry Pi 4. get an SSD drive. previous. In reply to It should be good to go now,… by Jeff Geerling. I'm not having any luck getting the ssd to boot raspberry os. I’m curious if it will pass over it for the bootable drive or not. Tried this Aukey: https://www.amazon.it/AUKEY-Esterno-Compatibile-Samsung-Toshiba/dp/B00MN7P5NU It works like a charm, hdparm -t=335-345MB/S with Samsung Evo 850, zero dmesg errors, UASP working. Excellent, glad to hear it SEB, thanks for the update! Will this still work if you flash the 32 bit version of Raspberry Pi OS to the SSD? This is a compiled list of known working adapters built by myself from adapters I’ve purchased and commenters from ones they have purchased in this article and my newer guide that utilizes the new Raspberry Pi 4’s native bootloader for USB booting. Only works with the USB SSD drive (Adata 240GB) plugged into a USB2 port. Thank you for the article. In reply to Hey mate, great tutorial! Avoid! Win32DiskImager (Windows) or balenaEtcher (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows) are highly recommended to burn the images. Note that for the USB SSD, I modified the hdparm test to use the path /dev/sda1 instead of /dev/mmcblk0. The chip inside is a cheap JMicron JMS578, which now boots fine over USB3 after upgrading the firmware as described on https://wiki.odroid.com/odroid-xu4/software/jms578_fw_update. The speed increase in my case from moving from SD card to SSD is over 10 times as you can see on the following screen. Boot from a standard microSD card with the latest Raspberry Pi OS on it. I disconnected the drive from the RB and connected it to a normal computer where I replaced the files in the boot partition. Once the check completes it will mark the drive clean and skip the disk check from now on. This case gives you a M.2 SATA port for your Raspberry Pi and is also a case! DELOCK 42570 Adapter USB 3.1 > M.2 (for non-NVME SATA m.2 SSDs) works with 3.0A power adapter, but the enclosure gets pretty warm ASD600Q-240-BK ADATA USB-SSD SD600Q 240GB does not work with a 3.0A power adapter. And any complications if I am already running from SSD? How safe is it exactly to completely unplug the PI after a shutdown command when an ssd is connected? SSD USB-Boot Anleitung: 1. this key issue is extremely aggravating and debilitating. Before copying the image to the SDD, do I have to format the SDD to a specific type? It is for NVMe M.2 drives only and is getting hard to find, Reported as working well in the comments by John H. Reinhardt with a ASM1051E chipset, I used this enclosure to benchmark M.2 SATA Lite-On and SanDisk drives — working great in 3.0 ports. Brian L reports this is working well with. “If you attach an external SSD to your Raspberry Pi 4 B, you will get significantly faster app opens and file transfers. So helpful! In reply to This initially worked for me… by Justin Kolberg. In reply to Same here. Thanks Mirco, I’ve added this to the list! It would boot better in the USB2.0 slot, but interestingly only once. You should also check out my What's the fastest USB drive for a Raspberry Pi video; I found that there are a few flash drives that are quite fast, but most are extremely slow, and often slower than microSD cards. I tried to shortcut importing the CSV file and…, Awesome script, was able to setup a bedrock server in a couple of minutes on ubuntu 20.04 server! At least until somebody figures out how to mod the Ubuntu 20.04 image to support USB booting. The USB 3.0 ports are the ones that have the blue plastic inside instead of the black plastic (the black ones are USB 2.0 ports). I was enjoying using my verbatim usb boot until it started freezing on rainbow screen with POE hat in use. Thanks, I’ve added these and your others to the list! You can make sure everything is running correctly (and as fast as it should be) by running my quick storage benchmark. I’ll definitely add this to my list of things to test when I’m in the Pi lab as well! I got it working by using another PC and trying the firmware update without the SSD in it. If I try to boot off of a 3.0 port it's a no-go so I'm not seeing all that glorious performance increase. Maybe the same enclosure would work with a Samsung one but using another one it won’t. We need to change the PARTUUID of our SSD’s partitions so the Pi doesn’t get confused about what device to boot from. Hello, with the new raspberry os can you boot directly on 2 usb drive with a MDADM raid 1 ? Too many silly things can go wrong that are checked for/fixed by the recommended programs. First make a backup of your existing cmdline.txt file with the following command: We’ve now created a backup you can restore if something goes wrong. In reply to My pi4 will boot withpout… by Ian. The Raspberry Pi foundation states that it is being worked on and will be added back with a future update. So when the USB boot beta was announced, I wanted to put it through its paces. Dependency failed for Configure Bluetooth Modems connected by WART. adapters will work in the USB 3.0 port. sudo rpi-eeprom-update -d -f /lib/firmware/raspberrypi/bootloader/stable/pieeprom-2020-06-15.bin. If not maybe it needs to be formatted as a FAT volume? I had gone to Microcenter and bought the cheapest USB3 to SSD adapter I could find and did not anticipate that there would be performance or compatibility issues (I should have known!). Required fields are marked *, FYI, check the link again, I updated Publish-GoogleSheets to take either a title or an ID, that way you can…, Hey Richard, Glad to hear it! I've got a new Rasp PI4 with 8GB, a 3d printed case with an ICE tower cooler, and extra fan, running Ubuntu Mate 20.04. Solved my problem with this by moving the SSD drive to another hd enclosure I had lying around and that fixed the issue for me. Create a USB Flash/SSD boot device with Etcher for Raspberry Pi. I highly recommend doing this on a completely new install. It should be save after the Pi does it's normal "I'm shut down now" rapid blinks of the green activity light. Reboot the Pi and check the bootloader version by opening Terminal and running: Next, you need to flash the Pi OS to the external USB SSD or HDD. am sorry, i dont mean to be rude but your thinking is not that good. Handy shortcut Matt. Anyone else run into this? So far we have not found a single ORICO adapter that has worked correctly so I would avoid that brand completely for the Raspberry Pi. So I flashed the new stable version of the bootloader and it works just fine, but I can;t figure out how to change the boot order from sd to the usb! In reply to Hi. Stopped Forward Password Requests to Wall Directory Watch. In reply to Because you say: "So plug… by Mark. There are certain chipsets used in adapters that are known to be working/not working. In reply to I think the best option is… by VictorL, you think ? We will use the sudo lsusb command: On line 2 we can see my ASM1051E SATA 6Gb/s bridge adapter (it’s the known working StarTech.com 2.5″ SATA to USB* adapter). And I'm glad your adapter worked fine—I've been testing with some other adapters and after applying the fix mentioned in the following GitHub issue, I was able to boot and reboot with no problems whatsoever! In meinem Fall gibt es bereits ein bestehendes Image, welches ich nutzen möchte. The first benchmark gets a synthesis of large file write activity, plus small (4K) file random access read/write activity. Didn’t try quirks. Thanks a ton for posting your solution, it should help anyone else struggling with this setup! Followed your instructions and have a Raspberry Pi 4 booted of a SanDisk 32GB Ultra Fit USB 3.1 Low-Profile Flash Drive. In reply to Hello, Now, flash any USB drive with the latest Raspberry Pi OS, plug it into your Pi (unplugging any microSD card), and you're off to the races! If you make any mistakes during this command just close fdisk by pressing q. This one-liner is useful for that: https://gist.github.com/atomicstack/9c43e452c4b7cefb37c1e78f65b0b1fa, In reply to Nice guide, thanks! Verwenden eines extern SSD Selbst wenn es über USB angeschlossen ist, kann dies die … lastly, this worked for me but i can’t say it will work for anyone else, so do at your own risk. Hi Jeff, Hi Jeff, So plug the USB drive into your main computer (where you flashed the microSD card earlier), and flash the Raspberry Pi OS to it the same way you did to the microSD card. Here’s the current recommendations based on everyone’s comments combined with stuff I’ve personally used with the Pi: CanaKit 3.5A Raspberry Pi 4 Power Supply with PiSwitch, Sabrent 4-Port USB 3.0 Hub with Individual LED Lit Power Switches, Includes 5V/2.5A Power Adapter (HB-UMP3)*. And I'm not just speaking platitudes: today, I used the Raspberry Pi for all my daily work, to see what rough edges lay in the path towards considering it as a daily general purpose workstation. If the adapters worked before on older Pis then one thing you can try is putting them in the black USB 2.0 ports. I noticed that if I unplug the SSD, wait 2 seconds and re-insert it, it will boot again and all works well. If you make a mistake the first time don’t spend too much time trying to correct it or figure out what you did wrong. Thanks for all the information, a massive help. Can you please help. It's…, The problem was indeed with how I was building the ArrayList. Yet I'm unable to to Boot the SSD on the USB3 port, it does boot on USB2 but the whole idea was to utilize USB3. Step 3 - Configure the Boot Device. You can easily boot your favorite operating system on your Raspberry Pi 4 from a USB HDD, SSD, or a USB thumb drive instead of the traditional microSD card. In reply to Jeff, mind updating this for… by tedder, I've updated the post with this information, thanks for pushing me to keep it up to date :). I want to provide information about a usb adapter here. In the future, you'll be able to download it from the regular Pi OS download page, but for now it's available from this forum thread.. To flash the card, I still rely on good old dd on my Mac, but you can use the Raspberry Pi Imager … However, I wonder, how do I prevent the raspberry pi from booting from that second usb backup drive? It’s much easier the second time! Here we can clearly see that the ASM105x is what our StarTech adapter is being detected as. Finding this page saved my sanity. I just tested this last week, and it makes a very big difference—see this post: UASP makes a huge difference on Pi 4, no difference on Pi 3 B+. :D. I have a very small configuration with a M-SATA extention board and a 64 GB M-SATA.