Slow cards sabotaged my favorite projects My Raspberry Pi has powered everything from a Home Assistant hub to a personal Git server, yet microSD cards constantly mess with my uptime.

USB boot has been possible since the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B (v1.2), but it has only become really worthwhile with the Pi 4. Here is some information, tips, tricks and opinions explaining why and how.

Its focus on homebrew hacking inspired the original Raspberry Pi micro computer, and those roots can be felt in the newest Pi fresh out the oven: The Rapsberry Pi 4 Model B.

With all the necessary hardware in hand, I'm ready to try out the new Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, and the latest version of the Raspbian operating system. Here are my experiences so far.

The Raspberry Pi 4 is a true next-generation Pi, with dual-screen 4K support, USB 3.0, a new CPU and GPU, and up to 4GB RAM.

The launch site for the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B is mostly running on a cluster of 18 of the little devices themselves. Fourteen handle PHP code execution, two serve static files, and two run memcached.