When the official RPT SD-card became available, an official RPL approved webshop only had those with OS pre-installed. And were about double the price of a similar sized Sandisk or Samsung I could buy in some random other shop.I tend to buy SD cards about 10 at a time. Unfortunately, last time I did that was shortly before the official RPT cards were announced. Still...they're A1 class and that's as good as it's going to get for any Pi prior to the Pi5.
I think they were also old Raspbian (32-bit) instead of Debian 64-bit. And of course the auto-max-resizer active, so the average RPi Windows user has no clue howto reclaim the mostly unused space for something else then OS/rootfs/bootfs partitions.
If things are networked, it might make sense to study how netboot and NFSroot etc can be done. You have also almost automatic backups, at least it allows you to have that. If time != money, maybe it does not matter.
Statistics: Posted by redvli — Sat Feb 07, 2026 9:34 am