So I purchased a rack mount that came with a SATA SSD PCB. I want to get away from using the micro SD card and I heard SSDs compliment the pi well but I’m not sure how to go about doing it, do I just flash the ssd like I would a micro SD? If anyone could please give me some advice on the best way to do this I’d be grateful!
TRIM on Pi is possible if the USB controller supports it. Even without TRIM the USB SSD is ALWAYS having longer life and running a lot faster than SD card, and not to mention sometimes we need much bigger storage only (e.g. previously I used my Pi4B as torrent client alongside with PiHole/UPS management, plugging a SSD to it just fits the purpose)
And not everyone is buying Pi at high price, for example I have 3 x Pi4B purchased long time ago which were cheap.