The Raspberry Pi is one of the best kits available, offering an affordable diversity of options to users of all levels. This credit-card-sized wonder is available worldwide and can do so many things — ...

The Raspberry PI Foundation has released beta firmware and a bootloader to enable booting the Raspberry Pi 4 from a USB mass storage device. The new firmware and bootloader could be useful to ...

Jacob is a tech and hardware writer with over four years of experience writing for some of the biggest PC gaming and technology websites such as PCGamer, PCGamesN, TechRadar, and now Pocket-lint. He's ...

Historically, booting a Raspberry Pi required an SD card. However, if you follow [tynick’s] instructions, you can get a Pi 4 to boot from the USB port. Combine it with a small solid state disk drive, ...

In my previous post, I wrote about assembling and using the Farnell element 14 Pi-Desktop kit. I limited that post to the basic installation, configuration and use of the Pi-Desktop enclosure itself.

You can also change the time using the xset s [value] command, where [value] is the time in seconds. The default value is 600 ...

Although the Raspberry Pi 5 has a PCIe interface, it doesn’t have a slot for a PCIe SSD. There’s now a whole range of plug-in boards (HATs = Hardware Attached on Top) for retrofitting SSDs. They ...

If you are considering booting your new Raspberry Pi 4 from a solid state drive (SSD) you might be interested in performance testing carried out by Avram Piltch over at Toms Hardware. Providing ...

I cannot believe how simple it is now to get a Raspberry Pi 4 running from an SSD rather than from an SD Card. I have written what to do here, because the web seems devoid of a simple list of ...