The Pi 5 offers boot from microSD or USB 3 rusty rotating disk or USB 3 SSD or direct from NVMe. I use NVMe for development work and microSD for projects that might move to a Pi 4. What do you use for home office type Pi 5 machines?
My main home office "big" application is LibreOffice and some of the documents have images so I edit in Gimp. Doing it without NVMe is painful.
For everything else officy, reading email, searching the Web, my fastest microSD card works.
I also looked at a boot from microSD that becomes read only with everything in memory, which should be ok in 8 GB. I could then have all my project files on USB 3 SSD as I have a collection of 1 TB mSATA SSDs in good enclosures. Separating the OS from the data makes backups cleaner plus I can plug the USB SSDs into my notebook for travel.
A setup like that could also move to a Pi 4 if my Pi 5 were to burst into flames like a Tesla.![:o]( "Surprised")
My main home office "big" application is LibreOffice and some of the documents have images so I edit in Gimp. Doing it without NVMe is painful.
For everything else officy, reading email, searching the Web, my fastest microSD card works.
I also looked at a boot from microSD that becomes read only with everything in memory, which should be ok in 8 GB. I could then have all my project files on USB 3 SSD as I have a collection of 1 TB mSATA SSDs in good enclosures. Separating the OS from the data makes backups cleaner plus I can plug the USB SSDs into my notebook for travel.
A setup like that could also move to a Pi 4 if my Pi 5 were to burst into flames like a Tesla.
Statistics: Posted by peterlite — Sat Jan 18, 2025 4:00 am