[steve19]

I wonder how much the rpi foundation would need to sell a pi if it included 32gb of storage. I would gladly pay not to feel like I'm playing roulette with my microsd.

[swebs]

Eh, then you might have the same problems with bargain bin soldered on flash memory. Just let us boot from USB and be done with it.

[copperx]

They just need to make booting from a USB drive easy. Plug in a $20 SSD and stop worrying about reliability.

[bigiain]

They're working on it: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/pi-3-booting-part-i-usb-mas...

[kingosticks]

It's very easy on the 3B+, see https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...

[philjohn]

It's pretty simple to do, as long as your USB drive is quick to come online.

I have an RPi running on one of those tiny USB thumb drives that only protrude a few mm and it's running a data capture suite I wrote to monitor my internet connection which writes to a PostgreSQL database on the Pi.

[bigiain]

How much more are you prepred to pay?

This is a big jump up price-wise on the 'Pi, but it meets your "32gb of storage" requirement for $174:

https://shop.udoo.org/other/home/udoo-x86-advanced-plus.html

[Piskvorrr]

Pretty sure you're also paying more for x86 (as compared to ARM).

[bigiain]

Sure. I'm not aware of any ARM based SOC boards with that 32GB of storage though (not saying there aren't any, just saying I've got 1st hand experience with that Udoo board and RPis...)

I was hopeful that NextThing would get there, their C.H.I.P board was nice (when you could actually get them to sell you any) and had 8GB on-board, but they went tits-up earlier this year. Hardware is hard...

[jon-wood]

Take a look at Resin’s Project Fin, which is designed for IoT deployments - it runs off a Pi Compute Module. https://resin.io/blog/introducing-project-fin-a-board-for-fl...