Orange Pi One Plus boot from SSD ??

vincen · Published in 2018-2-17 18:18:56

Hi

I have a Orange Pi One Plus board and I'd like to know if it's able to boot from an SSD plugged in USB in it directly without use of memory card ? and if so how ? I want to run Ubuntu on it but from an SSD and not memory cands for efficiency and reliability !

Thanks

Vincèn

vincen · Published in 2018-2-25 16:03:44

Some life in that forum ? or it's dead ??

Tina · Published in 2018-2-25 19:24:07

Edited by Tina at 2018-2-25 11:33

Sorry for the question to boot from usb, I am the wrong person to ask.

What advantages would there be by using a SDD (with data rates lets say about 300MByte/s with a SATA interface) on a USB 2.0 connection (in theory max 480Mbit/s -> 60MByte/sec). But this will not be reached IRL.

For reliability, I see not much of a difference on µSD and SSD. Most of them use MLC (multi level cell, uses 4 levels of charge per cell) or TLC technology (uses 8 levels of charge per cell). To be most reliable they should be SLC (single level charge) designed. More charge per cell -> higher risk of data loss over time. But at the cot of the price. AFAIK SLC is used only for industrial SSDs and memory cards. I found a Panasonic SLC µSD card, 8GB (RP-SMSC08DA1) @ ~$140 for single order qty.

vincen · Published in 2018-2-25 20:27:34

Tina replied at 2018-2-25 19:24
Sorry for the question to boot from usb, I am the wrong person to ask.

What advantages would there ...

Well the main goal of using an SSD is efficiency (lot faster and more reliable than a memory card even the best ones) even on USB2 (I do it on Raspberry Pi and it really helps). It allows also a lot more storage at cheaper price