Raspberry Pi Bootlooping after update

[MaxK (Mark)]

How to Troubleshoot Raspberry Pi Crashing

Ensure you are using an appropriate power supply. See the warning at the top of this page: USB peripherals directly attached to the Pi can exceed the power supply limits (for example SSDs and Disk drives). Always attach these to a separately powered USB hub then attach the USB hub to the Pi. Try a different power supply (power supplies can fail). The SD card, SSD, etc. may have corrupt files from a crash, power fail, repeated power cycles without proper shutdown, etc. Try a clean in…

SD Card Reliability

There are recommendations on this forum and elsewhere to avoid using SD cards because they are not reliable (e.g., they wear out). Device manufacturers typically measure reliability, under ideal conditions, as meantime between failure (MTBF) for harddisks or the total number of write operations for SDs and SSDs. They also compete on other metrics including speed, storage capacity, price, size, etc. so you can usually find this information if you search for it. SD cards may not be able to do as…