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I have my PI running off a USB-SSD instead. It works very well, though initial set up can be a bit of a hassle.

I used to boot my fileserver (not a Pi) like that and it worked fine for a number of years until the USB-SATA adapter died. Not sure if you meant an actual purpose-built external SSD but I don't know that I'd trust a home-brewed solution in the long term.

If you dont mind, do you have some link to hand that you used to set that up?

Edit: - sorry, nevermind, I should have read the rest of the comments, there is a link below this comment (at time of writing)

I don’t see a link, so here’s the post I used: https://jamesachambers.com/new-raspberry-pi-4-bootloader-usb...

Make sure you use the right adapter, I got an enclosure at first that wasn’t on the list, and it ended up not working. I switched to the recommended StarTech 2.5″ and everything worked.

Thank you

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