EDIT 2020/05/22 just to anticipate your next question:
Q: Does it work for HassOS?
A: Not jet (HassOS v3.13 and v4.6rc), but there is a partial solution which gives most of the benefits, just skip to reply n.32
Interesting for sure and probably what we all think we want. But what is the practical gain ? Counting, I have 7 * R Pi undertaking various tasks and I’m not sure any would benefit particularly. Perhaps it will be useful in Home Assistant.
I do have a spare SSD, so I’m looking for an excuse to buy another R Pi
Yeah good they’ve finally done it, though might wait until its production released. Currently already booting from SD to SSD, so I’m already getting the benefit of the SSD.
Hahaha. Oh Dear. USB3 has an upper limit of 5Gb/s (notice the small b), however to qualify as USB3 all you have to do is be faster than USB2 (480Mb/s). Now, while the pi4 has made a substantial jump in USB throughput it is only about half of what SATA III throughput is capable of in Bytes/s (600MB/s).
Here’s the same data about SSD on USB3 on Pi4, along with uSD performance.
So you’re still better off with SSD than uSD from both a speed and wear perspective.
@Mutt I didn’t succeed on a RasPI 4 “prepared” (BOOT_ORDER=0xf41) and successfully tested with Raspbian Lite booted via SSD (no uSD).
Booting HassOS 3.13 32bit via SSD, the RasPI4 is stuck on a boot-loop, as shown in the picture below. Same result with HassOS 4.6rc, both 32bit and 64bit versions.
I’ve just spent 2 hours digging out a spare Pi 4, a power supply, casing up a spare SSD and now you drop this on me.
You’ve done everything I would have done, I haven’t a clue where to go from there
I’m not blaming you, I’m not blaming anyone, I just assumed it would work with Pi4 HassOS
Well I suppose that gives me a couple of days free time (not playing with a new Pi 4 HA test and more time … ) to continue with the COVID19 chores the wife wants me to do.
Well it looks like we’ll have to wait for the official EFI from RPF and then wait as @maurizio53 said but for a Pi 4 HassOS to catch up with that.
But now there is light at the end of the tunnel.