RaspberryPi4 RPi4 Upgrading from existing SD card setup to boot from SSD - Community Tutorials - DietPi Community Forum

Wanted to put this together as I just succeeded in doing this and I didn’t see a specific setup listed here. This is just what worked for me, so don’t take it as the definitive guide. If done successfully, you can simply clone over your existing files and configuration without needing to do a clean install. SSDs, especially NVMe M.2 drives are a huge leap above traditional microSD cards. Big boost in read/write speeds, but also IOPS. Can make a lot of applications much more snappy I assume yo…