Boot octoprint from USB flash drive

Sjoelander · June 22, 2021, 7:41pm

Hello!

Is it possible to boot Octoprint from a USB flash drive instead of a Micro-SD card. The Raspberry Pi 4 support booting OS from a USB storage device.

Charlie_Powell · June 22, 2021, 10:10pm

Yes, just flash OctoPi to the USB storage instead of the SD card, plug it in and away you go!

You'll need to have a Pi 4 with firmware later than September 2020 and OctoPi 0.18+

jneilliii · June 23, 2021, 1:12am

I recently did this with one of my instances and it was fairly painless as Charlie pointed out. It's pretty amazing the difference in speed.

Sjoelander · June 23, 2021, 3:45pm

Amazing!

Sjoelander · June 23, 2021, 3:50pm

Sweet!!

towlerg · June 24, 2021, 10:35am

What areas of rasp performance are affected?

jneilliii · June 24, 2021, 12:53pm

Mainly read/write speed seems to be faster.

towlerg · June 24, 2021, 12:58pm

Thanks, if I ever get round to upgrading 3B+ I'll give it a spin. I never really liked SD cards, never understood why they were so slow.

jneilliii · June 24, 2021, 1:49pm

Yeah, highly dependent on the quality of the card and class level.

McFortner · May 11, 2022, 11:51pm

Ah, sweet. Now my Octoprint boots up faster on a USB 3 thumb drive than the SD card. Thanks for the info! I can't wait for my other Raspberry Pi boards to get here so I can do that with them as well.