/products/raspberry-pi/b/blog/posts/breathe-new-life-into-that-old-raspberry-pi-2My Raspberry Pi 2 was mostly disused, running a couple of Seti@Home threads. It is out of date and the speed was always rather slow compared to the other machines in my home. Some of it is because 1GB RAM is anemic in 2016 but some of it ...en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/products/raspberry-pi/b/blog/posts/breathe-new-life-into-that-old-raspberry-pi-2Sat, 07 Apr 2018 00:50:01 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:d216b96a-59f6-4aa6-bb72-844e58ed363emp21001<p>Another good tutorial, thanks.&nbsp; What do you think about using a USB thumb drive instead?&nbsp; Assuming it&#39;s USB 2.0 speed, 480 Mb/s (60 MB/sec) would also give a speed boost and simplify the cabling.&nbsp; &quot;Thumb&quot; drives are the size of a USB A connector these days.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I realized a couple of my RPi are using SD class 4 as boot/run &quot;discs&quot;.&nbsp; I looked up the speed, it&#39;s a little embarrassing, 4 MB/sec.&nbsp; Time for an update on those SD cards.</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=2199&AppID=86&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">https://community.element14.com/products/raspberry-pi/b/blog/posts/breathe-new-life-into-that-old-raspberry-pi-2Sun, 04 Jun 2017 18:39:43 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:d216b96a-59f6-4aa6-bb72-844e58ed363eFormer Member0<p>I added an &quot;rpi3&quot; tag because I believe that this procedure will work for an RPi3 as well as the RPi2.&nbsp; I would guess that booting from and accessing faster storage, bypassing MicroSD, will give the RPi3 a performance boost too.</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=2199&AppID=86&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">