The Raspberry Pi Imager will eject your microSDXC card after it is flashed.

And finally write the OS to the microSDXC card.

If any of your other drives has the same capacity, be double cautious! A good idea is to compare the capacity which should be identical to the one of your microSDXC card.

Now select the drive where your microSDXC card is – IMPORTANT – be totally sure about the drive you chose.

First select the OS you would like to flash to your microSDXC card.

Download the Raspberry Pi Imager for your Operating System.

If your Mac asks you to initialize your microSDXC card simply click on the “Ignore” button.

Insert the microSDXC card into the SD card adapter and insert the duo into your Mac’s SD card slot (if it still has one).

Also: this guide was inspired by this German article (which is unfortunately behind a pay-wall), which took me 80% of the way, but since some parts were missing, I added them to my guide. So if some parts are old cheese for you just jump over them but don’t blame me if things don’t work for you. Some final remarks: Everything computery was done on a Mac and if you wonder: I am by no means a Linux or Raspbian pro. AmazonBasics USB 3.1 hub with 7 ports – since the SSD draws a lot of power it is necessary to have a powered USB hub that can also power the Raspi.UGREEN SSD M.2 NVMe enclosure – one of the few USB 3.1 capable enclosures.Samsung 970 EVO Plus Series MZ-V7S500B/AM internal SSD – also according to James A.Chamber the fastest microSDXC card available Transcend 64GB High Endurance microSDXC/SDHC card – according to James A.Aluminium Heatsink Case for Raspberry Pi 4 – also in other cool colours available.Raspberry Pi 4 Model B with 8 gigs of RAM.You milage may vary and don’t at me, if things don’t work for you.) So to prevent you from doing the same mistakes, here are my parts that worked for me. Chamber has a list of known working adapters and chipsets. (You may ask why do you may need this list – well I bought some SSDs and enclosures that unfortunately didn’t work. Oh btw, all links are NO affiliate links so please buy the stuff where ever you want.

Without further ado – let’s jump directly into the ingredients it needed for me, to make my Raspi 4 boot from SSD. But after many failed attempts and many non-functioning tutorials I thought I may be eligible for some exaggeration.

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