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by elahd 2555 days ago
I have a Pi running Pi-hole, Home Assistant, Node Red, and some custom scripts. It uses a parts bin 2.5" laptop hard drive (via a USB to SATA cable) as the sole boot and storage medium. You can set most Pis to boot from USB and totally avoid touching SD cards.

It was easy to configure and sped up the Pi quite a bit. No reliability issues in about a year of use.

Boot from USB instructions are at https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry....